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2010-12-20nl80211: Export available antennasBruno Randolf
Export the information which antennas are available for configuration as TX or RX antennas via nl80211. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20cfg80211: Separate available antennas for RX and TXBruno Randolf
As has been pointed out by Daniel Halperin some devices (e.g. Intel IWL5100) can only TX from a subset of RX antennas, so use separate availability masks for RX and TX. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20mac80211: Send mesh non-HWMP path selection frames to userspaceJavier Cardona
Let path selection frames for protocols other than HWMP be sent to userspace via NL80211_CMD_REGISTER_FRAME. Also allow userspace to send and receive mesh path selection frames. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20mac80211: Let userspace enable and configure vendor specific path selection.Javier Cardona
Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor specific alternative. Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add information elements to mesh beacons. This is accordance with the Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the 802.11s draft. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20mac80211: Rename mesh_params to mesh_config to prepare for mesh_setupJavier Cardona
Mesh parameters can be to setup a mesh or to configure it. This patch renames the ambiguous name mesh_params to mesh_config in preparation for mesh_setup. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-16nl80211: Add notification for dropped Deauth/DisassocJouni Malinen
Add a new notification to indicate that a received, unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame was dropped due to management frame protection being in use. This notification is needed to allow user space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) to implement SA Query procedure to recover from association state mismatch between an AP and STA. This is needed to avoid getting stuck in non-working state when MFP (IEEE 802.11w) is used and a protected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame is dropped for any reason. After that, the station would silently discard any unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame that could be indicating that the AP does not have association for the STA (when the Reason Code would be 6 or 7). IEEE Std 802.11w-2009, 11.13 describes this recovery mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15nl80211: advertise maximum remain-on-channel durationJohannes Berg
With the upcoming hardware offload implementation, some devices will have a different maximum duration for the remain-on-channel command. Advertise the maximum duration in mac80211, and make mac80211 set it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13cfg80211/nl80211: separate unicast/multicast default TX keysJohannes Berg
Allow userspace to specify that a given key is default only for unicast and/or multicast transmissions. Only WEP keys are for both, WPA/RSN keys set here are GTKs for multicast only. For more future flexibility, allow to specify all combiations. Wireless extensions can only set both so use nl80211; WEP keys (connect keys) must be set as default for both (but 802.1X WEP is still possible). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13cfg80211: Add antenna availability informationBruno Randolf
Add a field to wiphy for the hardware to report the availble antennas for configuration. Only if this is set to something bigger than zero, will the anntenna configuration ops be executed. Allthough this could be a simple number of antennas, I defined it as a bitmap of antennas which are available for configuration, since it's more consistent with the rest of the antenna API and there could be cases where the hardware allows only configuration of certain antennas. As it does not make much of a difference in size or normal usage, I think it's better to be able to support this, in case the need arises. The antenna configuration is now also checked against the availabe antennas and rejected if it does not match. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> -- v3: always apply available antenna mask (for "all" antennas case). v2: reject antenna configurations which don't match the available antennas Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmodeHelmut Schaa
Add a new BSS attribute to allow hostapd to set the current HT opmode. Otherwise drivers won't be able to set up protection for HT rates in AP mode. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07nl80211/mac80211: Report signal averageBruno Randolf
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet. This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function. -- v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commandsJohannes Berg
Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up, add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured when the device goes up. Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to start the mesh on interface up. We now allow querying mesh parameters before the mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults. Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is only allowed while connected. Specify them with the new mesh join command instead where needed. In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done by testing the mesh ID. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06nl80211: refactor mesh parameter parsingJohannes Berg
I'm going to need this in a new place later. Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06cfg80211: require add_virtual_intf to return new devJohannes Berg
cfg80211 used to do all its bookkeeping in the notifier, but some new stuff will have to use local variables so make the callback return the netdev pointer. Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06nl80211/mac80211: define and allow configuring mesh element TTLJavier Cardona
The TTL in path selection information elements is different from the mesh ttl used in mesh data frames. Version 7.03 of the 11s draft calls this ttl 'Element TTL'. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29nl80211/cfg80211: extend mgmt-tx API for off-channelJohannes Berg
With p2p, it is sometimes necessary to transmit a frame (typically an action frame) on another channel than the current channel. Enable this through the CMD_FRAME API, and allow it to wait for a response. A new command allows that wait to be aborted. However, allow userspace to specify whether or not it wants to allow off-channel TX, it may actually want to use the same channel only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet lossJohannes Berg
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events to notify about packet loss for specific stations (which could be the AP for the managed mode case). Since the threshold might be determined by the driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be passed out of the driver to userspace in the event. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24cfg80211/mac80211: improve ad-hoc multicast rate handlingFelix Fietkau
- store the multicast rate as an index instead of the rate value (reduces cpu overhead in a hotpath) - validate the rate values (must match a bitrate in at least one sband) Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2010-11-24Revert "nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average"John W. Linville
This reverts commit 86107fd170bc379869250eb7e1bd393a3a70e8ae. This patch inadvertantly changed the userland ABI. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-18nl80211/mac80211: Report signal averageBruno Randolf
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet. This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16cfg80211: add support for setting the ad-hoc multicast rateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configurationBruno Randolf
Allow setting of TX and RX antennas configuration via nl80211. The antenna configuration is defined as a bitmap of allowed antennas to use. This API can be used to mask out antennas which are not attached or should not be used for other reasons like regulatory concerns or special setups. Separate bitmaps are used for RX and TX to allow configuring different antennas for receiving and transmitting. Each bitmap is 32 bit long, each bit representing one antenna, starting with antenna 1 at the first bit. If an antenna bit is set, this means the driver is allowed to use this antenna for RX or TX respectively; if the bit is not set the hardware is not allowed to use this antenna. Using bitmaps has the benefit of allowing for a flexible configuration interface which can support many different configurations and which can be used for 802.11n as well as non-802.11n devices. Instead of relying on some hardware specific assumptions, drivers can use this information to know which antennas are actually attached to the system and derive their capabilities based on that. 802.11n devices should enable or disable chains, based on which antennas are present (If all antennas belonging to a particular chain are disabled, the entire chain should be disabled). HT capabilities (like STBC, TX Beamforming, Antenna selection) should be calculated based on the available chains after applying the antenna masks. Should a 802.11n device have diversity antennas attached to one of their chains, diversity can be enabled or disabled based on the antenna information. Non-802.11n drivers can use the antenna masks to select RX and TX antennas and to enable or disable antenna diversity. While covering chainmasks for 802.11n and the standard "legacy" modes "fixed antenna 1", "fixed antenna 2" and "diversity" this API also allows more rare, but useful configurations as follows: 1) Send on antenna 1, receive on antenna 2 (or vice versa). This can be used to have a low gain antenna for TX in order to keep within the regulatory constraints and a high gain antenna for RX in order to receive weaker signals ("speak softly, but listen harder"). This can be useful for building long-shot outdoor links. Another usage of this setup is having a low-noise pre-amplifier on antenna 1 and a power amplifier on the other antenna. This way transmit noise is mostly kept out of the low noise receive channel. (This would be bitmaps: tx 1 rx 2). 2) Another similar setup is: Use RX diversity on both antennas, but always send on antenna 1. Again that would allow us to benefit from a higher gain RX antenna, while staying within the legal limits. (This would be: tx 0 rx 3). 3) And finally there can be special experimental setups in research and development even with pre 802.11n hardware where more than 2 antennas are available. It's good to keep the API simple, yet flexible. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> -- v7: Made bitmasks 32 bit wide and rebased to latest wireless-testing. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-08cfg80211: fix a crash in dev lookup on dump commandsFelix Fietkau
IS_ERR and PTR_ERR were called with the wrong pointer, leading to a crash when cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex fails. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11cfg80211: add channel utilization stats to the survey commandFelix Fietkau
Using these, user space can calculate a relative channel utilization with arbitrary intervals by regularly taking snapshots of the survey results. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-07cfg80211: constify WDS addressJohannes Berg
There's no need for the WDS peer address to not be const, so make it const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-07nl80211: use new genl helpers for WDSJohannes Berg
Bill Jordan's patch to allow setting the WDS peer crossed with my patch removing all the boilerplate code in nl80211, and consequently he didn't make use of it yet. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06nl80211/mac80211: Add retry and failed transmission count to station infoBruno Randolf
This information is already available in mac80211, we just need to export it via cfg80211 and nl80211. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06nl80211: fix error in generic netif_running checkJohannes Berg
Yikes! The error return keeps a netdev reference and the rdev mutex locked, fix that! Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKsJohannes Berg
This adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs, updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05nl80211: reduce dumping boilerplateJohannes Berg
Consolidate boilerplate code needed for .dumpit calls operating on netdevs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05nl80211: use generic check for netif_runningJohannes Berg
Use a new flag that requires the netdev to be UP and use it to check instead of coding the check into all functions that require it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05nl80211: use the new genetlink pre/post_doit hooksJohannes Berg
This makes nl80211 use the new genetlink pre_doit/post_doit hooks for locking and checking the interface/wiphy index. This significantly reduces the code size and the likelihood of locking errors. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05cfg80211: patches to allow setting the WDS peerBill Jordan
Added a nl interface to set the peer bssid of a WDS interface. Signed-off-by: Bill Jordan <bjordan@rajant.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05cfg80211: fix lockingJohannes Berg
Add missing unlocking of the wiphy in set_channel, and don't try to unlock a non-existing wiphy in set_cqm. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35+] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05cfg80211/mac80211: allow management frame TX in AP modeJohannes Berg
Enable management frame transmission and subscribing to management frames through nl80211 in both cfg80211 and mac80211. Also update a few places that I forgot to update for P2P-client mode previously, and fix a small bug with non-action frames in this API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05nl80211: allow drivers to indicate whether the survey data channel is in useFelix Fietkau
Some user space applications only want to display survey data for the operating channel, however there is no API to get that yet. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-28cfg80211: always set IBSS basic ratesJohannes Berg
IBSS started from wireless extensions is currently missing basic rate configuration, fix this by moving the code to generate the default to the common code that gets invoked for both nl80211 and wext. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27nl80211: Fix exit from nl80211_set_power_saveTeemu Paasikivi
If interface does not existk, when nl80211_set_power_save is called, (eg. module has been unloaded) it has been causing kernel panic. Added new goto target to avoid crash if get_rdev_dev_by_info_ifindex does not return dev and rdev pointers. Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16cfg80211/nl80211: introduce p2p device typesJohannes Berg
This adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so we can distinguish between those and normal STA or AP (respectively) type interfaces. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-14nl80211: Uninitialized variableBill Jordan
There is a path in nl80211_set_wiphy where result is tested but uninitialized. I am hitting this path when I attempt: sh# iw dev wlan0 set channel 10 command failed: Unknown error 1069727332 (-1069727332) Signed-off-by: William Jordan <bjordan@rajant.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27cfg80211: allow changing port control protocolJohannes Berg
Some vendor specified mechanisms for 802.1X-style functionality use a different protocol than EAP (even if EAP is vendor-extensible). Allow setting the ethertype for the protocol when a driver has support for this. The default if unspecified is EAP, of course. Note: This is suitable only for station mode, not for AP implementation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25nl80211: fix missing nestingJohannes Berg
commit 95a6ccbb46c70cff376684c752831c014c87029d Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Thu Aug 12 15:38:38 2010 +0200 cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processing introduced a netlink bug that caused parsing errors in userspace because it forgot to close a nesting, which would advertise a nesting length of zero to userspace, which then completely threw off parsing and led to Illegal nla->nla_type == 0 being printed by libnl. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processingJohannes Berg
Allow userspace to register for more than just action frames by giving the frame subtype, and make it possible to use this in various modes as well. With some tweaks and some added functionality this will, in the future, also be usable in AP mode and be able to replace the cooked monitor interface currently used in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16cfg80211: check if WEP is available for shared key authJohannes Berg
When shared key auth is requested, cfg80211 should verify that the device is capable of WEP crypto which is required. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-28nl80211: Fix memory leaksYuri Ershov
In case of errors during message composing msg should be freed after canceling. Signed-off-by: Yuri Kululin <ext-yuri.kululin@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Yuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-13Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.h
2010-07-07NET: nl80211, fix lock imbalance and netdev referencingJiri Slaby
Stanse found that nl80211_set_wiphy imporperly handles a lock and netdev reference and contains unreachable code. It is because there return statement isntead of assignment to result variable. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/host.h
2010-06-24nl80211: Add option to adjust transmit powerJuuso Oikarinen
This patch adds transmit power setting type and transmit power level attributes to NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY in order to facilitate adjusting of the transmit power level of the device. The added attributes allow selection of automatic, limited or fixed transmit power level, with the level definable in signed mBm format. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>