kernel.git/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h, branch linux-2.6.34.y

mac80211: remove get_tx_stats() driver op

2010-02-08T21:51:01Z

get_tx_stats() driver operation is not currently used anywhere in mac80211 and there are no plans to use it in the not-so-near future. So it can go without anyone missing it. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep

2010-02-08T21:50:53Z

Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix update_tkip_key() documentation about the context

2010-01-25T21:36:28Z

Johannes noticed that I had incorrectly documented the context of update_tkip_key() driver operation. It must be atomic because all RX code is run inside rcu critical section. Reported-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: pass vif and station to update_tkip_key

2010-01-22T21:08:55Z

When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can use that to store their own data. We also need to pass the virtual interface pointer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Add new callback set_coverage_class

2010-01-12T18:50:07Z

Mac80211 callback to driver set_coverage_class() sets slot time and ACK timeout for given IEEE 802.11 coverage class. The callback is optional, but it's essential for long distance links. Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: annotate sleeping driver ops

2009-12-28T21:55:10Z

To make it easier to notice cases of calling sleeping ops in atomic context, annotate driver-ops.h with appropiate might_sleep() calls. At the same time, also document in mac80211.h the op functions with missing contexts. mac80211 doesn't seem to use get_tx_stats anywhere currently. Just to be on the safe side, I documented it to be atomic, but hopefully the op can be removed in the future. Compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove struct ieee80211_if_init_conf

2009-12-28T21:55:07Z

All its members (vif, mac_addr, type) are now available in the vif struct directly, so we can pass that instead of the conf struct. I generated this patch (except the mac80211 and header file changes) with this semantic patch: @@ identifier conf, fn, hw; type tp; @@ tp fn(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, -struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf) +struct ieee80211_vif *vif) { <... ( -conf->type +vif->type | -conf->mac_addr +vif->addr | -conf->vif +vif ) ...> } Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: introduce flush operation

2009-12-28T21:54:51Z

We've long lacked a good confirmation that frames have really gone out, e.g. before going off-channel for a scan. Add a flush() operation that drivers can implement to provide that confirmation, and use it in a few places: * before scanning sends the nullfunc frames * after scanning sends the nullfunc frames, if any * when going idle, to send any pending frames Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: trace interface name

2009-12-21T23:38:54Z

It's not all that useful to have the vif/sdata pointer, we'd rather refer to the interfaces by their name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev

2009-12-21T23:38:52Z

For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville