kernel.git/net/mac80211/driver-trace.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

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6

2010-02-08T21:38:38Z

Conflicts: net/mac80211/scan.c

mac80211: fix NULL pointer dereference when ftrace is enabled

2010-01-26T16:52:13Z

I got below kernel oops when I try to bring down the network interface if ftrace is enabled. The root cause is drv_ampdu_action() is passed with a NULL ssn pointer in the BA session tear down case. We need to check and avoid dereferencing it in trace entry assignment. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Modules linked in: at (null) IP: [] ftrace_raw_event_drv_ampdu_action+0x10a/0x160 [mac80211] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [...] Call Trace: [] ? ftrace_raw_event_drv_ampdu_action+0x0/0x160 [mac80211] [] ? __ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session+0xfc/0x220 [mac80211] [] ? ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions+0x3b/0x50 [mac80211] [] ? ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xe6/0x230 [mac80211] [] ? ieee80211_set_disassoc+0x9c/0x230 [mac80211] [] ? ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x158/0x170 [mac80211] [] ? ieee80211_deauth+0x1b/0x20 [mac80211] [] ? __cfg80211_mlme_deauth+0xe9/0x120 [cfg80211] [] ? __cfg80211_disconnect+0x170/0x1d0 [cfg80211] Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi 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: 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: enable spatial multiplexing powersave

2009-12-22T18:31:16Z

Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode. Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that just logs the requested mode. For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only, and let you toggle the requested mode at any time. 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