Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.
In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.
The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).
Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.
mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.
One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.
Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):
* different HT/no-HT modes
currently you could start an HT AP and then
connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
which would configure the hardware for no HT;
that can be fixed fairly easily
* CSA
An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
might indicate switching channels, and in that
case we would follow it, regardless of how many
other interfaces are operating; this requires
more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is used to configure APs to not bridge traffic between connected stations.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Our offset handling becomes even a little more hackish now. For some reason I
do not understand all offsets as inrelative. It assumes base offset is 0x1000
but it will work for now as we make offsets relative anyway by removing base
0x1000. Should be cleaner however.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Attempting to read registers that don't exist on the SSB bus can cause
hangs on some boxes. At least some b43 devices are 'in the wild' that
don't have SPROMs at all. When the SSB bus support loads, it attempts
to read these (non-existant) SPROMs and causes hard hangs on the box --
no console output, etc.
This patch adds some intelligence to determine whether or not the SPROM
is present before attempting to read it. This avoids those hard hangs
on those devices with no SPROM attached to their SSB bus. The
SSB-attached devices (e.g. b43, et al.) won't work, but at least the box
will survive to test further patches. :-)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
wl1251 has WLAN_IRQ pin for generating interrupts to host processor,
which is mandatory in SPI mode and optional in SDIO mode (which can
use SDIO interrupts instead). However TI recommends using deditated
IRQ line for SDIO too.
Add support for using dedicated interrupt line with SDIO, but also leave
ability to switch to SDIO interrupts in case it's needed.
Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The aggregation code has a number of quirks, like
inventing an unneeded WLAN_BACK_TIMER value and
leaking memory under certain circumstances during
station destruction. Fix these issues by using
the regular aggregation session teardown code and
blocking new aggregation sessions, all before the
station is really destructed.
As a side effect, this gets rid of the long code
block to destroy aggregation safely.
Additionally, rename tid_state_rx which can only
have the values IDLE and OPERATIONAL to
tid_active_rx to make it easier to understand
that there is no bitwise stuff going on on the
RX side -- the TX side remains because it needs
to keep track of the driver and peer states.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.
Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In nl80211.h, be a little more elaborate in the docs for the definitions
NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_THOLD and NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_HYST.
Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the
nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring
events.
Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive
pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start
preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost.
An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in
an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it
before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad
or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity.
The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended
to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that
arises.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These two #defines use the same value, but
SIOCIWFIRST makes more sense in this use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit 6b03a53a (tcp: use limited socket backlog) added the possibility
of dropping frames when backlog queue is full.
Commit d218d111 (tcp: Generalized TTL Security Mechanism) added the
possibility of dropping frames when TTL is under a given limit.
This patch adds new SNMP MIB entries, named TCPBacklogDrop and
TCPMinTTLDrop, published in /proc/net/netstat in TcpExt: line
netstat -s | egrep "TCPBacklogDrop|TCPMinTTLDrop"
TCPBacklogDrop: 0
TCPMinTTLDrop: 0
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On 03/04/2010 09:26 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 00:51 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> From: Jeff Garzik<jgarzik@redhat.com>
>>
>> This patch is an alternative approach for accessing string
>> counts, vs. the drvinfo indirect approach. This way the drvinfo
>> space doesn't run out, and we don't break ABI later.
> [...]
>> --- a/net/core/ethtool.c
>> +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
>> @@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ static noinline int ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, void __user *use
>> info.cmd = ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO;
>> ops->get_drvinfo(dev,&info);
>>
>> + /*
>> + * this method of obtaining string set info is deprecated;
>> + * consider using ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO instead
>> + */
>
> This comment belongs on the interface (ethtool.h) not the
> implementation.
Debatable -- the current comment is located at the callsite of
ops->get_sset_count(), which is where an implementor might think to add
a new call. Not all the numeric fields in ethtool_drvinfo are obtained
from ->get_sset_count().
Hence the "some" in the attached patch to include/linux/ethtool.h,
addressing your comment.
> [...]
>> +static noinline int ethtool_get_sset_info(struct net_device *dev,
>> + void __user *useraddr)
>> +{
> [...]
>> + /* calculate size of return buffer */
>> + for (i = 0; i< 64; i++)
>> + if (sset_mask& (1ULL<< i))
>> + n_bits++;
> [...]
>
> We have a function for this:
>
> n_bits = hweight64(sset_mask);
Agreed.
I've attached a follow-up patch, which should enable my/Jeff's kernel
patch to be applied, followed by this one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is an alternative approach for accessing string
counts, vs. the drvinfo indirect approach. This way the drvinfo
space doesn't run out, and we don't break ABI later.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for handling KEY_RFKILL in the rfkill input module. This
simply toggles the state of all rfkill devices. The comment in rfkill.h
is also updated to reflect that RFKILL_TYPE_ALL may be used inside the
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (214 commits)
omap2: Initialize Menelaus and MMC for N8X0
AM3517 EVM: correct typo - tca6416 mispelt as tca6516
AM3517 EVM: Enable I2C support
AM35x: Enable OMAP_MUX in defconfig
AM35x: Add missing GPIO mux config for EHCI port
Zoom3: Defconfig update
omap: i2c: Fix muxing for command line enabled bus
OMAP4: clock: Remove clock hacks from timer-gp.c
OMAP4: clock: Add dummy clock nodes for interface clocks
OMAP4: clock: Rename leaf clock nodes to end with a _ick or _fck
OMAP2+ clock: revise omap2_clk_{disable,enable}()
OMAP2/3 clock: combine OMAP2 & 3 boot-time MPU rate change code
OMAP clockdomain: if no autodeps exist, don't try to add or remove them
OMAP hwmod: add hwmod class support
OMAP hwmod: convert header files with static allocations into C files
OMAP hwmod: convert hwmod to use hardware clock names rather than clkdev dev+con
OMAP clock: add omap_clk_get_by_name() for use by OMAP hwmod core code
OMAP3: clock: add capability to change rate of dpll4_m5_ck_3630
OMAP4 clock: drop the ALWAYS_ENABLED clock flag
OMAP clock: drop RATE_FIXED clock flag
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1341 commits)
virtio_net: remove forgotten assignment
be2net: fix tx completion polling
sis190: fix cable detect via link status poll
net: fix protocol sk_buff field
bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled
bnx2x: Tx barriers and locks
scm: Only support SCM_RIGHTS on unix domain sockets.
vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full
vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling
vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer
vhost: logging thinko fix
wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
ethtool: do not set some flags, if others failed
ipoib: returned back addrlen check for mc addresses
netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
axnet_cs: add new id
bridge: Make IGMP snooping depend upon BRIDGE.
bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries
bridge: Add hash elasticity/max sysfs entries
bridge: Add multicast_snooping sysfs toggle
...
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
