linux.git/net/wireless/core.h, branch v2.6.34

cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames

2010-02-15T21:14:15+00:00

This implements a new command to register for action frames
that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel
rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that
it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but
the socket can be closed for that.

Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded
to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the
cfg80211 API helps implementing that.

Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows
doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be
used either to exchange action frames on the current
operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are
currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public
Action frames with the remain-on-channel command.

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

cfg80211: rcu-ify rdev and wdev

2010-01-19T21:43:09+00:00

Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev
within atomic sections, but currently we need
to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the
list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that
we can look them up in rcu sections instead in
the future.

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

cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response frames

2010-01-12T18:51:28+00:00

Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in
separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through
nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from
Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the
BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have
overridden the IEs from Beacon frames.

This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include
the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However,
there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could
be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would
be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least
some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include
the full IE only in Beacon frames).

The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE
sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the
previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the
new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: add remain-on-channel command

2009-12-28T21:55:02+00:00

Add new commands for requesting the driver to remain awake
on a specified channel for the specified amount of time
(and another command to cancel such an operation). This
can be used to implement userspace-controlled off-channel
operations, like Public Action frame exchange on another
channel than the operation channel.

The off-channel operation should behave similarly to scan,
i.e. the local station (if associated) moves into power
save mode to request the AP to buffer frames for it and
then moves to the other channel to allow the off-channel
operation to be completed. The duration parameter can be
used to request enough time to receive a response from
the target station.

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

wireless: report reasonable bitrate for MCS rates through wext

2009-12-21T16:27:31+00:00

Previously, cfg80211 had reported "0" for MCS (i.e. 802.11n) bitrates
through the wireless extensions interface.  However, nl80211 was
converting MCS rates into a reasonable bitrate number.  This patch moves
the nl80211 code to cfg80211 where it is now shared between both the
nl80211 interface and the wireless extensions interface.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.

2009-11-28T20:05:00+00:00

This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211
dedicated workqueue.

Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as
new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is
called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex).
This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform
driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work
scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside
a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the  wdev_cleanup_work
 (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on
wifi device).

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

cfg80211: re-join IBSS when privacy changes

2009-11-18T22:09:25+00:00

When going from/to a WEP protected IBSS, we need to
leave this one and join a new one to take care of
the changed capability.

Cc: Hong Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive

2009-10-30T20:49:18+00:00

We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs
by using debugfs_remove_recursive().

First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive()
so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they
added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are
ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!).

Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive()
where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files
as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files
still need to be handled but can now be removed without
needing struct dentry pointers to all of them.

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

cfg80211: sme: deauthenticate on assoc failure

2009-10-27T20:29:47+00:00

When the in-kernel SME gets an association failure from
the AP we don't deauthenticate, and thus get into a very
confused state which will lead to warnings later on. Fix
this by actually deauthenticating when the AP indicates
an association failure.

(Brought to you by the hacking session at Kernel Summit 2009 in Tokyo,
Japan. -- JWL)

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

cfg80211: clean up properly on interface type change

2009-08-28T18:40:31+00:00

When the interface type changes while connected, and the
driver does not require the interface to be down for a
type change, it is currently possible to get very strange
results unless the driver takes special care, which it
shouldn't have to.

To fix this, take care to disconnect/leave IBSS when
changing the interface type -- even if the driver may fail
the call. Also process all events that may be pending to
avoid running into a situation where an event is reported
but only processed after the type has already changed,
which would lead to missing events and warnings.

A side effect of this is that you will have disconnected
or left the IBSS even if the mode change ultimately fails,
but since the intention was to change it and thus leave or
disconnect, this is not a problem.

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