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<title>cfg80211: default CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY to n</title>
<updated>2009-03-28T00:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>lrodriguez@atheros.com</email>
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<published>2009-03-25T01:21:07+00:00</published>
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And update description and feature-removal schedule according
to the new plan.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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And update description and feature-removal schedule according
to the new plan.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211/nl80211: remove usage of CONFIG_NL80211</title>
<updated>2009-03-28T00:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reinette Chatre</name>
<email>reinette.chatre@intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-03-12T16:20:40+00:00</published>
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The scan capability added to cfg80211/nl80211 introduced a
dependency on nl80211 by cfg80211. We can thus no longer have
just cfg80211 without nl80211. Specifically, cfg80211_scan_done()
calls nl80211_send_scan_aborted() or nl80211_send_scan_done().

Now we remove the option for user to select nl80211. It will always
be compiled if user selects cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The scan capability added to cfg80211/nl80211 introduced a
dependency on nl80211 by cfg80211. We can thus no longer have
just cfg80211 without nl80211. Specifically, cfg80211_scan_done()
calls nl80211_send_scan_aborted() or nl80211_send_scan_done().

Now we remove the option for user to select nl80211. It will always
be compiled if user selects cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib80211: silence excessive crypto debugging messages</title>
<updated>2009-03-16T22:01:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-11T15:05:25+00:00</published>
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When they were part of the now defunct ieee80211 component, these
messages were only visible when special debugging settings were enabled.
Let's mirror that with a new lib80211 debugging Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When they were part of the now defunct ieee80211 component, these
messages were only visible when special debugging settings were enabled.
Let's mirror that with a new lib80211 debugging Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support</title>
<updated>2008-11-25T21:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>lrodriguez@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-12T22:22:02+00:00</published>
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This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
(indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.

To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
on the same country.

A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
different countries.

In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
intersection will be performed.

CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
present.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
(indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.

To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
on the same country.

A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
different countries.

In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
intersection will be performed.

CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
present.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>lib80211: absorb crypto bits from net/ieee80211</title>
<updated>2008-11-21T16:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-29T15:35:05+00:00</published>
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These bits are shared already between ipw2x00 and hostap, and could
probably be shared both more cleanly and with other drivers.  This
commit simply relocates the code to lib80211 and adjusts the drivers
appropriately.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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These bits are shared already between ipw2x00 and hostap, and could
probably be shared both more cleanly and with other drivers.  This
commit simply relocates the code to lib80211 and adjusts the drivers
appropriately.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wireless: consolidate on a single escape_essid implementation</title>
<updated>2008-10-31T23:00:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-24T22:13:14+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wireless: fix regression caused by regulatory config option</title>
<updated>2008-10-26T17:38:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-26T17:25:30+00:00</published>
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The default for the regulatory compatibility option is wrong;
if you picked the default you ended up with a non-functional wifi
system (at least I did on Fedora 9 with iwl4965).
I don't think even the October 2008 releases of the various distros
has the new userland so clearly the default is wrong, and also
we can't just go about deleting this in 2.6.29...

Change the default to "y" and also adjust the config text a little to
reflect this.

This patch fixes regression #11859

With thanks to Johannes Berg for the diagnostics

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The default for the regulatory compatibility option is wrong;
if you picked the default you ended up with a non-functional wifi
system (at least I did on Fedora 9 with iwl4965).
I don't think even the October 2008 releases of the various distros
has the new userland so clearly the default is wrong, and also
we can't just go about deleting this in 2.6.29...

Change the default to "y" and also adjust the config text a little to
reflect this.

This patch fixes regression #11859

With thanks to Johannes Berg for the diagnostics

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wireless: fix typo in Kconfig.</title>
<updated>2008-10-06T22:14:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Pesavento</name>
<email>davidepesa@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-30T17:56:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Davide Pesavento &lt;davidepesa@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Davide Pesavento &lt;davidepesa@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure</title>
<updated>2008-09-15T20:48:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>lrodriguez@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-10T06:19:48+00:00</published>
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This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The
main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory
code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution,
and to replace the initial centralized code we have where:

* only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU
* regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter
* all rules were built statically in the kernel

We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries
and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent
through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules
without updating the kernel.

Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
further help compliance.

Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of
this.

For more information see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA

For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter,
ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically
(US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.
These old static definitions and the module parameter is being
scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this
you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless.
If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you
use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory
domain for us.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The
main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory
code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution,
and to replace the initial centralized code we have where:

* only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU
* regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter
* all rules were built statically in the kernel

We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries
and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent
through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules
without updating the kernel.

Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
further help compliance.

Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of
this.

For more information see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA

For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter,
ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically
(US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.
These old static definitions and the module parameter is being
scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this
you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless.
If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you
use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory
domain for us.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/wireless/Kconfig: clarify the description for CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS</title>
<updated>2008-09-02T19:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Mickler</name>
<email>florian@mickler.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-02T13:26:34+00:00</published>
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Current setup with hal and NetworkManager will fail to work
without newest hal version with this config option disabled.

Although this will solve itself by time, at the moment it is
dishonest to say that we don't know any software that uses it,
if there are many many people relying on old hal versions.

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler &lt;florian@mickler.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Current setup with hal and NetworkManager will fail to work
without newest hal version with this config option disabled.

Although this will solve itself by time, at the moment it is
dishonest to say that we don't know any software that uses it,
if there are many many people relying on old hal versions.

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler &lt;florian@mickler.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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