The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had,
is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible
to enable and disable power save via nl80211.
I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the
timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it.
Basically there were three reasons:
Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent.
Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and
still make sense to users, will be very difficult.
Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state
of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict
what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we
need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding
now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on.
Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for
debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this.
For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related
to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically
optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network
and other traffic parameters.
Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend
this command with more features, if there's a need for that.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This implements a new command to register for action frames
that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel
rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that
it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but
the socket can be closed for that.
Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded
to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the
cfg80211 API helps implementing that.
Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows
doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be
used either to exchange action frames on the current
operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are
currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public
Action frames with the remain-on-channel command.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.
According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
when both of following are met:
1. It is QoS data frame.
2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.
The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
to 0".
Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The header can be used to create qos nullfunc frames, for example.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.
Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.
Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in
separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through
nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from
Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the
BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have
overridden the IEs from Beacon frames.
This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include
the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However,
there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could
be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would
be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least
some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include
the full IE only in Beacon frames).
The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE
sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the
previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the
new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some hardware, for example wl1251 and wl1271, handle the transmission
of power save related frames in hardware, but the driver is responsible
for creating the templates. It's better to create the templates in mac80211,
that way all drivers can benefit from this.
Add two new functions, ieee80211_pspoll_get() and ieee80211_nullfunc_get()
which drivers need to call to get the frame. Drivers are also responsible
for updating the templates after each association.
Also new struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr is added to ieee80211.h to make it
easy to calculate length of the Nullfunc frame.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add a new NL80211_CMD_SET_TX_BITRATE_MASK command and related
attributes to provide support for setting TX rate mask for rate
control. This uses the existing cfg80211 set_bitrate_mask operation
that was previously used only with WEXT compat code (SIOCSIWRATE). The
nl80211 command allows more generic configuration of allowed rates as
a mask instead of fixed/max rate.
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>
The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11
Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a
wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few
hundred meters).
The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and
iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and
WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split
set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add new commands for requesting the driver to remain awake
on a specified channel for the specified amount of time
(and another command to cancel such an operation). This
can be used to implement userspace-controlled off-channel
operations, like Public Action frame exchange on another
channel than the operation channel.
The off-channel operation should behave similarly to scan,
i.e. the local station (if associated) moves into power
save mode to request the AP to buffer frames for it and
then moves to the other channel to allow the off-channel
operation to be completed. The duration parameter can be
used to request enough time to receive a response from
the target station.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, we insert all user-specified IEs before the HT
IE for association, and after the HT IE for probe requests.
For association, that's correct only if the user-specified
IEs are RSN only, incorrect in all other cases including
WPA. Change this to split apart the user-specified IEs in
two places for association: before the HT IE (e.g. RSN),
after the HT IE (generally empty right now I think?) and
after WMM (all other vendor-specific IEs). For probes,
split the IEs in different places to be correct according
to the spec.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
IEEE-802.11n spec says the RX highest data rate field does
not specify the highest supported RX data rate if its not set.
Ignore it if not set then. Refer to section 7.3.56.4
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the
driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action
frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode.
Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that
just logs the requested mode.
For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only,
and let you toggle the requested mode at any time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I noticed yesterday, because Jeff had noticed
a speed regression, cf. bug
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2138
that the SM PS settings for peers were wrong.
Instead of overwriting the SM PS settings with
the local bits, we need to keep the remote bits.
The bug was part of the original HT code from
over two years ago, but unfortunately nobody
noticed that it makes no sense -- we shouldn't
be overwriting the peer's setting with our own
but rather keep it intact when masking the peer
capabilities with our own.
While fixing that, I noticed that the masking of
capabilities is completely useless for most of
the bits, so also fix those other bits.
Finally, I also noticed that PSMP_SUPPORT no
longer exists in the final 802.11n version, so
also remove that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Various additions and improvements to the Gigaset driver's README
file, and added comments to its userspace visible include file.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
blkio: Documentation
blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
...
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (54 commits)
Revert "pata_sis: Implement MWDMA for the UDMA 133 capable chips"
libata: Clarify ata_set_lba_range_entries function
libata: Report zeroed read after TRIM and max discard size
pata_hpt3x2n: fix overclocked MWDMA0 timing
pata_it8213: MWDMA0 is unsupported
[libata] MWDMA0 is unsupported on PIIX-like PATA controllers
pata_via: clear UDMA transfer mode bit for PIO and MWDMA
pata_sis: Power Management fix
pata_rz1000: Power Management fix
pata_radisys: fix UDMA handling
pata_ns87415: Power Management fix
pata_marvell: fix marvell_pre_reset() documentation
pata_legacy: add pointers to QDI65x0 documentation
pata_legacy: fix access to control register for QDI6580
pata_legacy: fix QDI6580DP support
pata_it8213: fix it8213_pre_reset() documentation
pata_it8213: fix wrong MWDMA timings being programmed
pata_it8213: fix PIO2 underclocking
pata_it8213: fix wrong PIO timings being programmed
pata_it8213: fix UDMA handling
...
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c-stub: Documentation update
i2c-stub: Allow user to disable some commands
i2c-stub: Implement I2C block support
i2c: Refactor for_each callbacks
i2c-i801: Retry on lost arbitration
i2c: Remove big kernel lock from i2cdev_open
ics932s401: Clean up detect function
i2c: Simplify i2c_detect_address
i2c: Drop probe, ignore and force module parameters
i2c: Add missing __devinit markers to old i2c adapter drivers
i2c: Bus drivers don't have to support I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR
i2c: Prevent priority inversion on top of bus lock
i2c-voodoo3: Delete
i2c-powermac: Drop temporary name buffer
i2c-powermac: Include the i2c_adapter in struct pmac_i2c_bus
i2c-powermac: Log errors
i2c-powermac: Refactor i2c_powermac_smbus_xfer
i2c-powermac: Reject unsupported I2C transactions
i2c/chips: Move ds1682 to drivers/misc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM: Add flag for devices capable of generating run-time wake-up events
PM / Runtime: Remove unnecessary braces in __pm_runtime_set_status()
PM / Runtime: Make documentation of runtime_idle() agree with the code
PM / Runtime: Ensure timer_expires is nonzero in pm_schedule_suspend()
PM / Runtime: Use deferred_resume flag in pm_request_resume
PM / Runtime: Export the PM runtime workqueue
PM / Runtime: Fix lockdep warning in __pm_runtime_set_status()
PM / Hibernate: Swap, use KERN_CONT
PM / Hibernate: Shift remaining code from swsusp.c to hibernate.c
PM / Hibernate: Move swap functions to kernel/power/swap.c.
PM / freezer: Don't get over-anxious while waiting
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
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Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
