The default for the regulatory compatibility option is wrong;
if you picked the default you ended up with a non-functional wifi
system (at least I did on Fedora 9 with iwl4965).
I don't think even the October 2008 releases of the various distros
has the new userland so clearly the default is wrong, and also
we can't just go about deleting this in 2.6.29...
Change the default to "y" and also adjust the config text a little to
reflect this.
This patch fixes regression #11859
With thanks to Johannes Berg for the diagnostics
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If something goes wrong creating the debugfs dir or when
debugfs is not compiled in, the current code might lead to
trouble; make it more robust.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are two improvements in this simple patch:
1. wiphy_counter is a static var only used in one function, so
can use local static instead of global static;
2. wiphy_counter wrap handling killed one comparision;
Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch makes cfg80211 show the interface in the nl80211
information about a specific interface. API users are required
to keep the type updated (everything else is fairly complicated)
but you will get a warning if you fail to keep it updated.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The statically defined regdomains are used in a very convoluted
way, use them instead to prime the information we have and then
continue operating normally.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A few pointers and structures in the regulatory code are const,
but because it wasn't done properly a whole bunch of bogus
casts were needed to compile without warning. Mark everything
const properly to avoid that kind of junk code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The recent code from Luis is an #ifdef hell and contains lots of
code that's stuffed into the wrong file making a whole bunch of
things needlessly non-static, and besides, what is it doing in
core.c??
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When Luis added the static regdomains back he used +/-20
of the centre frequencies to account for 40MHz bandwidth
neglecting the fact that 40MHz bandwidth cannot be used
on the channels close to the allowed band edges.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The
main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory
code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution,
and to replace the initial centralized code we have where:
* only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU
* regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter
* all rules were built statically in the kernel
We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries
and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent
through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules
without updating the kernel.
Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
further help compliance.
Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of
this.
For more information see:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA
For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter,
ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically
(US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.
These old static definitions and the module parameter is being
scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this
you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless.
If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you
use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory
domain for us.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Current setup with hal and NetworkManager will fail to work
without newest hal version with this config option disabled.
Although this will solve itself by time, at the moment it is
dishonest to say that we don't know any software that uses it,
if there are many many people relying on old hal versions.
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set HT capabilities for associated
STAs. This is based on a patch from Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> (only
the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY for NEW_STA part is included here).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This change adds a new cfg80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS, to allow
AP mode BSS parameters to be changed from user space (e.g., hostapd).
The drivers using mac80211 are expected to be modified with separate
changes to use the new BSS info parameter for short slot time in the
bss_info_changed() handler.
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>
In the minimal the wireless extensions oughta send at least
the name in addition to the ifindex.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Julius Volz pointed out that the dump callbacks in nl80211 were
broken and fixed one of them. This patch fixes the other three
and also addresses the TODOs there.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, namespace is always &init_net.
Compiler will be able to omit namespace comparisons with this patch.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not
used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext
ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch
makes them optional and schedules them for removal.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Although I only tested similar code (I don't use any of this wireless
code), the state maintainance between Netlink dump callback invocations
seems wrong here and should lead to an endless loop. There are also other
examples in the same file which might have the same problem. Perhaps someone
can actually test this (or refute my logic).
Take the simple example with only one element in the list (which should fit
into the message):
1. invocation:
Start:
idx = 0, start = 0
Loop:
condition (++idx < start) => (1 < 0) => false
=> no continue, fill one entry, exit loop, return skb->len > 0
2. invocation:
Start:
idx = 0, start = 1
Loop:
condition (++idx < start) => (1 < 1) => false
=> no continue, fill the same entry again, exit loop, return skb->len > 0
3. invocation:
Same as 2. invocation, endless invocation of callback.
Also, iterations where the filling of an element fails should not be counted as
completed, so idx should not be incremented in this case.
Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Next we can kill the hacks in fs/compat_ioctl.c and also
dispatch compat ioctls down into the driver and 80211 protocol
helper layers in order to handle iw_point objects embedded in
stream replies which need to be translated.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
