linux.git/net/wireless/Makefile, branch v4.11

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2017-01-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2017-01-14T17:02:15+00:00

Johannes Berg says:

====================
For 4.11, we seem to have more than in the past few releases:
 * socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi
   manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are
   torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain
   operations, and can opt in to this where applicable
 * minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space)
 * set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the
   kernel, which was already available to userspace
 * don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no
   room to add them
 * multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage
   (since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of
   magnitude)
 * add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT
 * add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for
   MAC address privacy (still requires driver support)
 * many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

cfg80211: support ieee80211-freq-limit DT property

2017-01-06T13:01:13+00:00

This patch adds a helper for reading that new property and applying
limitations of supported channels specified this way.
It is used with devices that normally support a wide wireless band but
in a given config are limited to some part of it (usually due to board
design). For example a dual-band chipset may be able to support one band
only because of used antennas.
It's also common that tri-band routers have separated radios for lower
and higher part of 5 GHz band and it may be impossible to say which is
which without a DT info.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
[add new function to documentation, fix link]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Makefile: drop -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ from cflags

2016-12-15T22:13:43+00:00

That's the default now, no need for makefiles to set it.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Acked-by: Kalle Valo 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel

cfg80211: 802.11p OCB mode handling

2014-11-04T12:18:17+00:00

This patch adds new iface type (NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB) representing
the OCB (Outside the Context of a BSS) mode.
When establishing a connection to the network a cfg80211_join_ocb
function is called (particular nl80211_command is added as well).
A mandatory parameters during the ocb_join operation are 'center
frequency' and 'channel width (5/10 MHz)'.

Changes done in mac80211 are minimal possible required to avoid
many warnings (warning: enumeration value 'NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB'
not handled in switch) during compilation. Full functionality
(where needed) is added in the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Rostislav Lisovy 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: add tracing to rdev-ops

2012-10-18T08:53:37+00:00

Add tracing to make debugging cfg80211/mac80211
(or full-mac driver) interaction easier.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Reviewed-by: Hila Gonen 
Tested-by: Hila Gonen 
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
[add a cast to int to sizeof() to avoid warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_stop_ap

2012-06-29T11:39:14+00:00

This functionality will be reused when interface
is going down. Avoids code duplication. Also adds
missing wdev locking.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commands

2010-12-06T21:01:29+00:00

Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up,
add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we
must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle
joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured
when the device goes up.

Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as
well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to
start the mesh on interface up.

We now allow querying mesh parameters before the
mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults.
Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is
only allowed while connected. Specify them with
the new mesh join command instead where needed.

In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the
mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done
by testing the mesh ID.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database

2009-12-21T23:56:10+00:00

This patch provides infrastructure for machine translation of the
regulatory rules database used by CRDA into a C data structure.
It includes code for searching that database as an alternative
to dynamic regulatory rules updates via CRDA.  Most people should
use CRDA instead of this infrastructure, but it provides a better
alternative than the WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY infrastructure (which
can now be removed).

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wireless: implement basic ethtool support for cfg80211 devices

2009-10-07T20:39:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wext: refactor

2009-10-07T20:39:43+00:00

Refactor wext to
 * split out iwpriv handling
 * split out iwspy handling
 * split out procfs support
 * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code
   w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT

After this, drivers need to
 - select WIRELESS_EXT	- for wext support
 - select WEXT_PRIV	- for iwpriv support
 - select WEXT_SPY	- for iwspy support

except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c
and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT.

Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected
based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core
(i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville