kernel.git/net/mac80211/util.c, branch linux-2.6.36.y

mac80211: Don't set per-BSS QoS for monitor interfaces

2010-07-26T19:32:42Z

In AP mode, there is no need to notify the driver about QoS changes for the monitor interface that is created. The warning in ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify() would be hit otherwise. Signed-off-by: Sujith Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: move QoS-enable to BSS info

2010-07-20T20:02:58Z

Ever since commit e1b3ec1a2a336c328c336cfa5485a5f0484cc90d Author: Stanislaw Gruszka Date: Mon Mar 29 12:18:34 2010 +0200 mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS mac80211 is telling drivers, in particular iwlwifi, whether QoS is enabled or not. However, this is only relevant for station mode, since only then will any device send nullfunc frames and need to know whether they should be QoS frames or not. In other modes, there are (currently) no frames the device is supposed to send. When you now consider virtual interfaces, it becomes apparent that the current mechanism is inadequate since it enables/disables QoS on a global scale, where for nullfunc frames it has to be on a per-interface scale. Due to the above considerations, we can change the way mac80211 advertises the QoS state to drivers to only ever advertise it as "off" in station mode, and make it a per-BSS setting. Tested-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: simplify station/aggregation code

2010-06-14T19:38:16Z

A number of places use RCU locking for accessing the station list, even though they do not need to. Use mutex locking instead to prepare for the locking changes I want to make. The mlme code is also using a WLAN_STA_DISASSOC flag that has the same meaning as WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA, so use that. While doing so, combine places where we loop over stations twice, and optimise away some of the loops by checking if the hardware supports aggregation at all first. Also fix a more theoretical race condition: right now we could resume, set up an aggregation session, and right after tear it down again due to the code that is needed for hardware reconfiguration here. Also mark add a comment to that code marking it as a workaround. Finally, remove a pointless aggregation disabling loop when an interface is stopped, directly after that we remove all stations from it which will also disable all aggregation sessions that may still be active, and does so in a race-free way unlike the current loop that doesn't block new sessions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix BSS info reconfiguration

2010-05-07T18:55:49Z

When reconfiguring an interface due to a previous hardware restart, mac80211 will currently include the new IBSS flag on non-IBSS interfaces which may confuse drivers. Instead of doing the ~0 trick, simply spell out which things are going to be reconfigured. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: enhance tracing

2010-04-08T19:24:13Z

Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of callbacks that the drivers call, and also for internal calls (currently limited to queue status). This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211 in interaction with drivers, since we can now see what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls in the driver. 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 into merge

2010-04-08T17:34:54Z

Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c

mac80211: rename WLAN_STA_SUSPEND to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA

2010-04-07T18:38:04Z

I want to use it during station destruction as well so rename it to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA which is also the only use of it now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS

2010-03-31T18:43:59Z

Add interface to disable/enable QoS (aka WMM or WME). Currently drivers enable it explicitly when ->conf_tx method is called, and newer disable. Disabling is needed for some APs, which do not support QoS, such we should send QoS frames to them. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spot

2010-03-30T19:37:28Z

"mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must only enable the netdev queues once all the pending packets have been processed and sent off to the device. In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when aggregation is being enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: correct typos in "unavailable upon resume" warning

2010-03-30T19:37:22Z

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville