linux.git/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h, branch v4.2

mac80211: convert HW flags to unsigned long bitmap

2015-06-10T14:05:36+00:00

As we're running out of hardware capability flags pretty quickly,
convert them to use the regular test_bit() style unsigned long
bitmaps.

This introduces a number of helper functions/macros to set and to
test the bits, along with new debugfs code.

The occurrences of an explicit __clear_bit() are intentional, the
drivers were never supposed to change their supported bits on the
fly. We should investigate changing this to be a per-frame flag.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: extend get_tkip_seq to all keys

2015-05-06T11:29:59+00:00

Extend the function to read the TKIP IV32/IV16 to read the IV/PN for
all ciphers in order to allow drivers with full hardware crypto to
properly support this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation

2015-04-01T18:44:34+00:00

This allows drivers to request per-vif and per-sta-tid queues from which
they can pull frames. This makes it easier to keep the hardware queues
short, and to improve fairness between clients and vifs.

The task of scheduling packet transmission is left up to the driver -
queueing is controlled by mac80211. Drivers can only dequeue packets by
calling ieee80211_tx_dequeue. This makes it possible to add active queue
management later without changing drivers using this code.

This can also be used as a starting point to implement A-MSDU
aggregation in a way that does not add artificially induced latency.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
[resolved minor context conflict, minor changes, endian annotations]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: convert rssi_callback() to event_callback()

2015-03-30T08:17:09+00:00

We will be able to add more events, such as MLME events and
others. The low level driver may be interested in knowing
about these events to dump firmware data upon failures, or
to change parameters in case connection attempts fail etc...

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: allow drivers to provide most station statistics

2015-01-08T14:28:06+00:00

In many cases, drivers can filter things like beacons that will
skew statistics reported by mac80211. To get correct statistics
in these cases, call drivers to obtain statistics and let them
override all values, filling values from mac80211 if the driver
didn't provide them. Not all of them make sense for the driver
to fill, so some are still always done by mac80211.

Note that this doesn't currently allow a driver to say "I know
this value is wrong, don't report it at all", or to sum it up
with a mac80211 value (as could be useful for "dropped misc"),
that can be added if it turns out to be needed.

This also gets rid of the get_rssi() method as is can now be
implemented using sta_statistics().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: notify drivers on sta rate table changes

2014-11-19T18:15:50+00:00

This allows drivers with a firmware or chip-based rate lookup table to
use the most recent default rate selection without having to get it from
per-packet data or explicit ieee80211_get_tx_rate calls

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR

2014-11-19T17:46:09+00:00

Allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR with software
based scanning and generate a random MAC address for them for every
scan request with the flag.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add TDLS channel-switch Rx flow

2014-11-19T17:45:26+00:00

When receiving a TDLS channel switch request or response, parse the frame
and call a new tdls_recv_channel_switch op in the low level driver with
the parsed data.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov 
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: introduce TDLS channel switch ops

2014-11-19T17:45:21+00:00

Implement the cfg80211 TDLS channel switch ops and introduce new mac80211
ones for low-level drivers.
Verify low-level driver support for the new ops when using the relevant
wiphy feature bit. Also verify the peer supports channel switching before
passing the command down.

Add a new STA flag to track the off-channel state with the TDLS peer and
make sure to cancel the channel-switch if the peer STA is unexpectedly
removed.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov 
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: replace restart_complete() with reconfig_complete()

2014-11-04T12:49:00+00:00

Drivers might want to know also when mac80211 has
completed reconfiguring after resume (e.g. in order
to know when frames can be passed to mac80211).

Rename restart_complete() to a more-generic reconfig_complete(),
and add a new enum to indicate the reconfiguration type.

Update the current users with the new prototype.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller 
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg