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2009-07-29mac80211: fix suspendJohannes Berg
Jan reported that his b43-based laptop hangs during suspend. The problem turned out to be mac80211 asking the driver to stop the hardware before removing interfaces, and interface removal caused b43 to touch the hardware (while down, which causes the hang). This patch fixes mac80211 to do reorder these operations to have them in the correct order -- first remove interfaces and then stop the hardware. Some more code is necessary to be able to do so in a race-free manner, in particular it is necessary to not process frames received during quiescing. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13337. Reported-by: Jan Scholz <scholz@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 againJohannes Berg
In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption is used. Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also fixes a problem where frames for that particular station could be reordered when some were still on the software queues and older ones are re-injected into the software queue after them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10mac80211 : fix unaligned rx skbmatthieu castet
mac80211 is checking is the skb is aligned on 32 bit boundary. But it is checking against ethernet header, whereas Linux expect IP header aligned. And ethernet ether size is 6*2+2=14, so aligning ethernet header make IP header unaligned. Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211Zhu Yi
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211. Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers to be also benefit from these utility functions. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: move channel switch codeJohannes Berg
The channel switch code is currently in the spectrum management file, where arguably it belongs. However, it is for managed mode only and uses the structures for that mode only so having it in a more generic file can be confusing. Additionally, my next patch gets simpler with the code here. When/if we ever implement this for IBSS or mesh then we will need to rework the structures it uses anyway at which point we could move the code back. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11mac80211: MFP - Drop unprotected Action frames prior key setupJouni Malinen
When management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is used, unprotected Robust Action frames are not allowed prior to key configuration. However, unprotected Deauthentication and Disassociation frames are allowed at that point, but not after key configuration. Make ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() handle the special cases for MFP by separating the basic Data frame case from Management frame processing and handle the Management frames only if MFP has been negotiated. In addition, do not use sdata->drop_unencrypted for Management frames since the decision on whether to accept the frame depends on the key being configured. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11mac80211: Drop unencrypted frames based on key setupJouni Malinen
When using nl80211, we do not have a mechanism to set sdata->drop_unencrypted. Currently, this breaks code that is supposed to drop unencrypted frames when protection is expected since ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() is optimized to not set rx->key when the frame is not protected. This patch modifies ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() to set rx->key for all frames and only skip decryption if the frame is not protected. This allows ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() to correctly drop frames even if drop_unencrypted is not set. The changes here are not enough to handle all cases, though. Additional patches will be needed to implement proper IEEE 802.1X PAE for station mode (currently, this is only used for AP mode) and some additional rules are needed for MFP to drop unprotected Robust Action frames prior to having PTK and IGTK configured. In theory, the unprotected frames could and should be dropped in ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt(). However, due to the special case with EAPOL frames that have to be allowed to be received unprotected even when keys are set, it is simpler to only set rx->key and allow the ieee80211_frame_allowed() function to handle the actual dropping of data frames after 802.11->802.3 header conversion. In addition, unprotected robust management frames are dropped before they are processed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: Comment the order of HT RX reorder handler vs. RX handlersJouni Malinen
We are currently processing block ack reordering as a separate task before all other RX handlers. In theory, this is wrong since this step should be done only after duplicate removal (see Figure 6-1 in IEEE 802.11n). However, moving this needs some work and the current situation is not too bad. Add a comment here so that this small detail does not get forgotten and who knows, maybe someone has some extra time to take a look at cleaning this up. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: Add a timeout for frames in the RX reorder bufferJouni Malinen
This patch allows skbs to be released from the RX reorder buffer in case they have been there for an unexpectedly long time without us having received the missing frames before them. Previously, these frames were only released when the reorder window moved and that could take very long time unless new frames were received constantly (e.g., TCP connections could be killed more or less indefinitely). This situation should not happen very frequently, but it looks like there are some scenarious that trigger it for some reason. As such, this should be considered mostly a workaround to speed up recovery from unexpected siutation that could result in connections hanging for long periods of time. The changes here will only check for timeout situation when adding new RX frames to the reorder buffer. It does not handle all possible cases, but seems to help for most cases that could result from common network usage (e.g., TCP retrying at least couple of times). For more completely coverage, a timer could be used to periodically check whether there are any frames remaining in the reorder buffer if no new frames are received. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: Use a shared function to release frames from RX reorder bufJouni Malinen
No need to duplicate the same code in two places (and that would be three after the followup patch). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: add driver ops wrappersJohannes Berg
In order to later add tracing or verifications to the driver calls mac80211 makes, this patch adds static inline wrappers for all operations. All calls are now written as drv_<op>(local, ...); instead of local->ops-><op>(&local->hw, ...); Where necessary, the wrappers also do existence checking and return default values as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/pm.c
2009-04-22nl80211: Add Michael MIC failure eventJouni Malinen
Define a new nl80211 event, NL80211_CMD_MICHAEL_MIC_FAILURE, to be used to notify user space about locally detected Michael MIC failures. This matches with the MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication() primitive. Since we do not actually have TSC in the skb anymore when mac80211_ev_michael_mic_failure() is called, that function is changed to take in the TSC as an optional parameter instead of as a requirement to include the TSC after the hdr field (which we did not really follow). For now, TSC is not included in the events from mac80211, but it could be added at some point. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-21mac80211: fix alignment calculation bugJohannes Berg
When checking whether or not a given frame needs to be moved to be properly aligned to a 4-byte boundary, we use & 4 which wasn't intended, this code should check the lowest two bits. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder bufferVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
Currently rx status for frames which are completed from reorder buffer is taken from it's cb area which is not always right, cb is not holding the rx status when driver uses mac80211's non-irq rx handler to pass it's received frames. This results in dropping almost all frames from reorder buffer when security is enabled by doing double decryption (first in hw, second in sw because of wrong rx status). This patch copies rx status into cb area before the frame is put into reorder buffer. After this patch, there is a significant improvement in throughput with ath9k + WPA2(AES). Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: fix RX pathJohannes Berg
My previous patch ("mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME code") was too obvious to me, so obvious that a stupid bug crept in. The IBSS RX function must be invoked for IBSS, of course, not anything != IBSS. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activityKalle Valo
Separate beacon and rx path tracking in preparation for the beacon filtering support. At the same time change ieee80211_associated() to look a bit simpler. Probe requests are now sent only after IEEE80211_PROBE_IDLE_TIME, which is now set to 60 seconds. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timerKalle Valo
Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds (IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later. There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity on the data path. This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the idea. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME codeJohannes Berg
Neither can currently be set from userspace, so there's no regression potential, and neither will be supported from userspace since the new userspace APIs allow the SME, which is in userspace, to control all we need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27wireless: radiotap updatesJohannes Berg
Radiotap was updated to include a "bad PLCP" flag and standardise the "bad FCS" flag in the "flags" rather than "RX flags" field, this patch updates Linux to that standard. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: split IBSS/managed codeJohannes Berg
This patch splits out the ibss code and data from managed (station) mode. The reason to do this is to better separate the state machines, and have the code be contained better so it gets easier to determine what exactly a given change will affect, that in turn makes it easier to understand. This is quite some churn, especially because I split sdata->u.sta into sdata->u.mgd and sdata->u.ibss, but I think it's easier to maintain that way. I've also shuffled around some code -- null function sending is only applicable to managed interfaces so put that into that file, some other functions are needed from various places so put them into util, and also rearranged the prototypes in ieee80211_i.h accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: restrict aggregation to supported interface modesJohannes Berg
We can only support aggregation on AP/STA right now. HT isn't defined for IBSS, WDS or MESH. In the WDS/MESH cases it's not clear what to put into the IBSS field, and we don't handle that in the code at all. Also fix the code to handle VLAN correctly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix RX aggregation timeoutsJohannes Berg
The values are in TUs (1.024ms), not ms. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: remove bssid argument from prepare_for_handlersJohannes Berg
It's a little confusing to get the BSSID outside the function and pass it in, when it's only needed for this function, so change that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: use ps-poll when dynamic power save mode is disabledKalle Valo
When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 currently disables power save ands sends a null frame to the AP. But if dynamic power save is disabled, mac80211 will not enable power save ever gain. Fix this by adding ps-poll functionality to mac80211. When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 sends a ps-poll frame to the AP and checks for the more data bit in the returned data frames. Using ps-poll is slower than waking up with null frame, but it's saves more power in cases where the traffic is low. Userspace can control if either ps-poll or null wakeup method is used by enabling and disabling dynamic power save. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DBJohannes Berg
Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a little fishy anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09wireless: replace uses of __constant_{endian}Harvey Harrison
The base versions handle constant folding now. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Fix radiotap header it_present on big endian CPUsJouni Malinen
When the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE flag was moved to be conditional, it was mistakenly left without cpu_to_le32(). Fix that. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Mark ieee80211_process_sa_query_req() staticJouni Malinen
This function is only used within rx.c, so mark it static. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: 802.11w - Drop unprotected robust management frames if MFP is usedJouni Malinen
Use ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() to decide whether a received frame should be dropped with management frames, too. If MFP is negotiated, unprotected robust management frames will be dropped. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: 802.11w - SA Query processingJouni Malinen
Process SA Query Requests for client mode in mac80211. AP side processing of SA Query Response frames is in user space (hostapd). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: 802.11w - Use BIP (AES-128-CMAC)Jouni Malinen
Add mechanism for managing BIP keys (IGTK) and integrate BIP into the TX/RX paths. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: clarify alignment docs, fix up alignmentJohannes Berg
Not all drivers are capable of passing properly aligned frames, in particular with mesh networking no hardware will support completely aligning it correctly. This patch adds code to align the data payload to a 4-byte boundary in memory for those platforms that require this, or when CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT is set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Add 802.11h CSA supportSujith
Move to the advertised channel on reception of a CSA element. This is needed for 802.11h compliance. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19mac80211: Remove radiotap rate-present flag for HTJouni Malinen
Since we do not currently report HT rates (MCS index) in radiotap header for HT rates, we should not claim the rate is present. The rate octet itself is used as padding in this case, so only the it_present flag needs to be removed in case of HT rates. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19mac80211: Add HT rates into RX status reportingJouni Malinen
This patch adds option for HT-enabled drivers to report HT rates (HT20/HT40, short GI, MCS index) to mac80211. These rates are currently not in the rate table, so the rate_idx is used to indicate MCS index. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12mac80211: misc cleanupsRami Rosen
This patch removes unneeded member (skbuff) from ieee80211_ibss_add_sta() method in its declaration (in ieee80211_i.h) and its callers (in rx.c and mlme.c) This patch removes unneeded member from struct ieee80211_rx_data in ieee80211_i.h. (Originally posted as two patches. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12mac80211: integrate sta_notify_ps cmds into sta_notifyChristian Lamparter
This patch replaces the newly introduced sta_notify_ps function, which can be used to notify the driver about every power state transition for all associated stations, by integrating its functionality back into the original sta_notify callback. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05mac80211: add sta_notify_ps callbackChristian Lamparter
This patch is necessary in order to provide a proper Access point support for p54. Unfortunately for us, there is no documented way to disable the interfering power save buffering mechanism in firmware completely. Therefore we give in and notify the driver through our new sta_notify_ps callback, so that we can update the filter state. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05mac80211: only transition STAs ps->wake on data framesJohannes Berg
When a station goes to PS mode to scan, it will then send probe requests without the PS bit set. mac80211 will take that as indication that the station woke up, but it didn't. This patch changes mac80211 to only consider doze->wake transitions on data frames to to fix that issue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: Re-enable aggregationSujith
Wireless HW without any dedicated queues for aggregation do not need the ampdu_queues mechanism present right now in mac80211. Since mac80211 is still incomplete wrt TX MQ changes, do not allow aggregation sessions for drivers that set ampdu_queues. This is only an interim hack until Intel fixes the requeue issue. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: allow all interfaces types to handle RX action framesAndrey Yurovsky
Eliminate the vif.type check in ieee80211_rx_h_action. This check is unnecessary (these action frames can be handled by all interface types) and currently prevents, for example, AP interfaces from handling BACK action frames such as ADDBA and DELBA requests. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: minor code cleanupsJohannes Berg
Nothing very interesting, some checkpatch inspired stuff, some other things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-27mac80211: convert to %pM away from print_macJohannes Berg
Also remove a few stray DECLARE_MAC_BUF that were no longer used at all. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-12net/mac80211/rx.c: fix build errorIngo Molnar
older versions of gcc do not recognize that ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() is unused when CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is disabled: net/built-in.o: In function `ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding': rx.c:(.text+0xd89af): undefined reference to `mpp_path_lookup' rx.c:(.text+0xd89c6): undefined reference to `mpp_path_add' as this code construct: if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) CALL_RXH(ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding); still causes ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() to be linked in. Protect these places with an #ifdef. commit b0dee578 ("Fix modpost failure when rx handlers are not inlined.") solved part of this problem - this patch is still needed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-30Fix modpost failure when rx handlers are not inlined.Davide Pesavento
When CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=n and CONFIG_MAC80211_NOINLINE=y, gcc doesn't optimize out a call to ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding, even if the previous comparison is always false in this case. This leads to the following errors during modpost: ERROR: "mpp_path_lookup" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined! ERROR: "mpp_path_add" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined! Fix by removing the possibility of uninlining ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding rx handler. Signed-off-by: Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: fix mesh action frame handlingJohannes Berg
When I split off the action frame handling I made the code drop all action frames we don't want to handle. This is wrong since some action frames are actually handled via rx_h_mgmt through being queued to the sta/mesh implementations. Thanks to Li YanBo for noticing the problem. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Li YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: mesh portal functionality supportYanBo
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 <dreamfly281@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: make master iface not wirelessJohannes Berg
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 <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: share STA information with driverJohannes Berg
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when they get around to updating, and might also help with implementing rate control algorithms without internals. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>