kernel.git/net/mac80211/tx.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

mac80211: restrict to AP in outgoing interface heuristic

2009-02-17T17:28:45Z

commit f1b33cb1c25ac476cbf22783f9ca2016f99648ed upstream. We try to find the correct outgoing interface for injected frames based on the TA, but since this is a hack for hostapd 11w, restrict the heuristic to AP mode interfaces. At some point we'll add the ability to give an interface index in radiotap or so and just remove this heuristic again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: decrement ref count to netdev after launching mesh discovery

2009-02-02T17:53:17Z

commit 5dc306f3bd1d4cfdf79df39221b3036eab1ddcf3 upstream. After launching mesh discovery in tx path, reference count was not being decremented. This was preventing module unload. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: add multi-rate retry support

2008-10-06T22:14:57Z

This patch adjusts the rate control API to allow multi-rate retry if supported by the driver. The ieee80211_hw struct specifies how many alternate rate selections the driver supports. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove redundant check in ieee80211_master_start_xmit (net/mac80211/tx.c)

2008-10-06T22:14:56Z

- This patch (against the linux-wireless-next git tree) removes a redundant check in ieee80211_master_start_xmit (net/mac80211/tx.c) and adjust indentation in this method accordingly. In this method, there is no need to call again the ieee80211_is_data() method; this is checked immediately before, in the "if" command (we will not enter this block unless ieee80211_is_data() is true, so that the "and" (&&) condition in that "if" command will be fullfilled ). Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove shadowed variables in ieee80211_master_start_xmit

2008-10-06T22:14:55Z

This patch removes doubly defined variables in ieee80211_master_start_xmit Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: clean up rate control API

2008-09-24T20:18:03Z

Long awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control API to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of net/mac80211/. There's one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking, we'll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to do the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control algorithm or via new API. Additionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we will add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right now I'm not expert enough to do it. It's still off better than before. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: mesh portal functionality support

2008-09-24T20:18:02Z

Currently the mesh code doesn't support bridging mesh point interfaces with wired ethernet or AP to construct an MPP or MAP. This patch adds code to support the "6 address frame format packet" functionality to mesh point interfaces. Now the mesh network can be used as backhaul for end to end communication. Signed-off-by: Li YanBo Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: make master iface not wireless

2008-09-24T20:18:00Z

There's no need to register the master netdev with cfg80211, in fact, this is quite dangerous and lead to having to add checks for the master interface all over the config handlers. This patch removes the "ieee80211_ptr" from the master iface in favour of having a small netdev_priv() associated with the master interface that stores the ieee80211_local pointer. Because of this, a lot of code in the configuration handlers can go away. To make this patch easier to verify I have also removed a number of wiphy_priv() calls in favour of getting the sdata first and then the local pointer from that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove debug frame dumping

2008-09-15T20:48:26Z

You can just pull up a monitor interface to get much more detailed information, or, when debugging a driver, insert dump code into the driver (which usually you will have to do anyway to dump the driver-specific information). Hence this option is useless. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove beacon counters

2008-09-15T20:48:26Z

The beacon counters mac80211 keeps are only used for debugfs, unfortunately, they are incorrect for many hardware designs, namely any design that has a beacon template. Hence, remove the counters so we don't create the impression they are usable. This also allows removing the beacon MESH #ifdef again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville