blackbird-op-linux/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h, branch master

the scheduled ieee80211 softmac removal

2008-03-13T20:02:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[IEEE80211]: Fix softmac lockdep reports.

2007-10-10T23:52:22+00:00

It seems I was actually able to hit this deadlock, on my quad G5 softmac locks up more often than not. This fixes it by using an own workqueue that can safely be flushed under RTNL. Not sure if the patch is correct with the workqueue naming. And don't think with the patch it doesn't continually lock up. It still does, just doesn't invoke lockdep warnings all the time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

WorkStruct: make allyesconfig

2006-11-22T14:57:56+00:00

Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells

[PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races

2006-10-17T00:09:47+00:00

This fixes some race conditions in the WirelessExtension handling and association handling code. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] softmac: export highest_supported_rate function

2006-07-27T20:17:28+00:00

zd1211 needs this functionality, no point duplicating it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] softmac: ERP handling and driver-level notifications

2006-07-27T20:17:28+00:00

This patch implements ERP handling in softmac so that the drivers can support protection and preambles properly. I added a new struct, ieee80211softmac_bss_info, which is used for BSS-dependent variables like these. A new hook has been added (bssinfo_change), which allows the drivers to be notified when anything in bssinfo changes. I modified the txrates_change API to match the bssinfo_change API. The existing one is a little messy and the usefulness of providing the old rates is questionable (and can be implemented at driver level if really necessary). No drivers are using this API (yet), so this should be safe. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] SoftMAC: Prevent multiple authentication attempts on the same network

2006-07-05T17:42:58+00:00

This patch addresses the "No queue exists" messages commonly seen during authentication and associating. These appear due to scheduling multiple authentication attempts on the same network. To prevent this, I added a flag to stop multiple authentication attempts by the association layer. I also added a check to the wx handler to see if we're connecting to a different network than the one already in progress. This scenario was causing multiple requests on the same network because the network BSSID was not being updated despite the fact that the ESSID changed. Signed-off-by: Joseph Jezak Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] softmac: Fix handling of authentication failure

2006-06-05T19:51:30+00:00

My router blew up earlier, but exhibited some interesting behaviour during its dying moments. It was broadcasting beacons but wouldn't respond to any authentication requests. I noticed that softmac wasn't playing nice with this, as I couldn't make it try to connect to other networks after it had timed out authenticating to my ill router. To resolve this, I modified the softmac event/notify API to pass the event code to the callback, so that callbacks being notified from IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_ANY masks can make some judgement. In this case, the ieee80211softmac_assoc callback needs to make a decision based upon whether the association passed or failed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate

2006-05-05T21:10:41+00:00

This patch is the first step towards rate control inside softmac. The txrates substructure has been extended to provide different fields for different types of packets (management/data, unicast/multicast). These fields are updated on association to values compatible with the access point we are associating to. Drivers can then use the new ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate() function call when deciding which rate to transmit each frame at. This is immensely useful for ZD1211, and bcm can use it too. The user can still specify a rate through iwconfig, which is matched for all transmissions (assuming the rate they have specified is in the rate set required by the AP). At a later date, we can incorporate automatic rate management into the ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates() function. This patch also removes the mcast_fallback field. Sam Leffler pointed out that this field is meaningless, because no driver will ever be retransmitting mcast frames (they are not acked). Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] softmac: make non-operational after being stopped

2006-05-05T20:55:22+00:00

zd1211 with softmac and wpa_supplicant revealed an issue with softmac and the use of workqueues. Some of the work functions actually reschedule themselves, so this meant that there could still be pending work after flush_scheduled_work() had been called during ieee80211softmac_stop(). This patch introduces a "running" flag which is used to ensure that rescheduling does not happen in this situation. I also used this flag to ensure that softmac's hooks into ieee80211 are non-operational once the stop operation has been started. This simply makes softmac a little more robust, because I could crash it easily by receiving frames in the short timeframe after shutting down softmac and before turning off the ZD1211 radio. (ZD1211 is now fixed as well!) Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville