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Mattias Nissler
1abbe498e4 mac80211: clean up rate selection
Move some code out of rc80211_simple since it's probably needed for all rate
selection algorithms, and fix iwlwifi accordingly. While at it, clean up the
rate_control_get_rate() interface.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:17 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky
76ee65bfaa mac80211: restructuring data Rx handlers
This patch restructures the Rx handlers chain by incorporating previously
handlers ieee80211_rx_h_802_1x_pae and ieee80211_rx_h_drop_unencrypted
into ieee80211_rx_h_data, already in 802.3 form. this scheme follows more
precisely after the IEEE802.11 data plane archituecture, and will prevent
code duplication to IEEE8021.11n A-MSDU handler.

added function:
 - ieee80211_data_to_8023: transfering 802.11 data frames to 802.3 frame
 - ieee80211_deliver_skb: delivering the 802.3 frames to upper stack
eliminated handlers:
 - ieee80211_rx_h_drop_unencrypted: now function ieee80211_drop_unencrypted
 - ieee80211_rx_h_802_1x_pae: now function ieee80211_802_1x_pae
changed handlers:
 - ieee80211_rx_h_data: now contains calls to four above function

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:27 -08:00
Zhu Yi
ece8edddf0 mac80211: hardware scan rework
The scan code in mac80211 makes the software scan assumption in various
places. For example, we stop the Tx queue during a software scan so that
all the Tx packets will be queued by the stack. We also drop frames not
related to scan in the software scan process. But these are not true for
hardware scan.

Some wireless hardwares (for example iwl3945/4965) has the ability to
perform the whole scan process by hardware and/or firmware. The hardware
scan is relative powerful in that it tries to maintain normal network
traffic while doing a scan in the background. Some drivers (i.e iwlwifi)
do provide a way to tune the hardware scan parameters (for example if the
STA is associated, what's the max time could the STA leave from the
associated channel, how long the scans get suspended after returning to
the service channel, etc). But basically this is transparent to the
stack. mac80211 should not stop Tx queues or drop Rx packets during a
hardware scan.

This patch resolves the above problem by spliting the current scan
indicator local->sta_scanning into local->sta_sw_scanning and
local->sta_hw_scanning. It then changes the scan related code to be aware
of hardware scan or software scan in various places. With this patch,
iwlwifi performs much better in the scan-while-associated condition and
disable_hw_scan=1 should never be required.

Cc: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:27 -08:00
Johannes Berg
0c884439db mac80211: remove more forgotten code
Hopefully that's the rest. Seems I didn't do a very thorough job
removing the management interface.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:39 -08:00
Johannes Berg
58d4185e36 [MAC80211]: improve radiotap injection
This improves radiotap injection by removing the shortcut over TX handlers
that led to BUGS when injecting frames without setting a rate and also
resulted in various other quirks. Now, TX handlers are run but some
information that was present in the radiotap header is used instead of
automatic settings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:54:18 -07:00
Johannes Berg
628a140ba0 [MAC80211]: remove ALG_NONE
This "algorithm" is used only internally and is not useful.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:18 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f9d540ee5f [MAC80211]: remove management interface
Removes the management interface since it is only required
for hostapd/userspace MLME, will not be in the final tree
at least in this form and hostapd/userspace MLME currently
do not work against this tree anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:15 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6a22a59d48 [PATCH] mac80211: consolidate encryption
Currently we run through all crypto handlers for each transmitted
frame although we already know which one will be used. This
changes the code to invoke only the needed handler. It also moves
the wep code into wep.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:53:14 -07:00
Johannes Berg
79010420cc [PATCH] mac80211: fix virtual interface locking
Florian Lohoff noticed a bug in mac80211: when bringing the
master interface down while other virtual interfaces are up
we call dev_close() under a spinlock which is not allowed.
This patch removes the sub_if_lock used by mac80211 in favour
of using an RCU list. All list manipulations are already done
under rtnl so are well protected against each other, and the
read-side locks we took in the RX and TX code are already in
RCU read-side critical sections.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:53:00 -07:00
Johannes Berg
dd1cd4c620 [MAC80211]: print out wiphy name instead of master device
This makes mac80211 print out the wiphy name instead of the
master device name where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:32 -07:00
Johannes Berg
011bfcc4f3 [MAC80211]: remove key threshold stuff
This patch removes the key threshold stuff from mac80211.
I have patches for later that add it as a per-key setting
to nl/cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:29 -07:00
Joe Perches
0795af5729 [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()
This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
Tomas Winkler
475fa49c12 [MAC80211]: PS mode fix
tx.mode must be set also for buffered frames. It is used in the tx hanlders

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:32 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
68aae11674 [MAC80211]: use internal network device stats
Stats are now available for device usage inside network_device

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:31 -07:00
warmcat
24338793ee [MAC80211]: get STA after tx radiotap snipped
Johannes Berg noticed that in __ieee80211_tx_prepare() we try to get the
STA from addr1 of the ieee80211 header when the radiotap header is actually
still at the front of the packet.  This patch defers doing that until the
radiotap header is gone.

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:31 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6a7664d451 [MAC80211]: remove HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID
This patch makes the mac80211/driver interface rely only on the
IEEE80211_TXCTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag to signal to the driver whether
a frame should be encrypted or not, since mac80211 internally no
longer relies on HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID either this removes it, changes
the key index to be a u8 in all places and makes the full range of
the value available to drivers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:29 -07:00
Johannes Berg
7848ba7d7a [MAC80211]: rework hardware crypto flags
This patch reworks the various hardware crypto related
flags to make them more local, i.e. put them with each
key or each packet instead of into the hw struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b708e61062 [MAC80211]: remove turbo modes
This patch removes all mention of the atheros turbo modes that
can't possibly work properly anyway since in some places we don't
check for them when we should.

I have no idea what the iwlwifi drivers were doing with these but
it can't possibly have been correct.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg
d4e46a3d98 [MAC80211]: fix race conditions with keys
During receive processing, we select the key long before using it and
because there's no locking it is possible that we kfree() the key
after having selected it but before using it for crypto operations.
Obviously, this is bad.

Secondly, during transmit processing, there are two possible races: We
have a similar race between select_key() and using it for encryption,
but we also have a race here between select_key() and hardware
encryption (both when a key is removed.)

This patch solves these issues by using RCU: when a key is to be freed,
we first remove the pointer from the appropriate places (sdata->keys,
sdata->default_key, sta->key) using rcu_assign_pointer() and then
synchronize_rcu(). Then, we can safely kfree() the key and remove it
from the hardware. There's a window here where the hardware may still
be using it for decryption, but we can't work around that without having
two hardware callbacks, one to disable the key for RX and one to disable
it for TX; but the worst thing that will happen is that we receive a
packet decrypted that we don't find a key for any more and then drop it.

When we add a key, we first need to upload it to the hardware and then,
using rcu_assign_pointer() again, link it into our structures.

In the code using keys (TX/RX paths) we use rcu_dereference() to get the
key and enclose the whole tx/rx section in a rcu_read_lock() ...
rcu_read_unlock() block. Because we've uploaded the key to hardware
before linking it into internal structures, we can guarantee that it is
valid once get to into tx().

One possible race condition remains, however: when we have hardware
acceleration enabled and the driver shuts down the queues, we end up
queueing the frame. If now somebody removes the key, the key will be
removed from hwaccel and then then driver will be asked to encrypt the
frame with a key index that has been removed. Hence, drivers will need
to be aware that the hw_key_index they are passed might not be under
all circumstances. Most drivers will, however, simply ignore that
condition and encrypt the frame with the selected key anyway, this
only results in a frame being encrypted with a wrong key or dropped
(rightfully) because the key was not valid. There isn't much we can
do about it unless we want to walk the pending frame queue every time
a key is removed and remove all frames that used it.

This race condition, however, will most likely be solved once we add
multiqueue support to mac80211 because then frames will be queued
further up the stack instead of after being processed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:26 -07:00
Johannes Berg
c29b9b9b02 [MAC80211]: don't send invalid QoS frames
Kalle Valo noticed that QoS frames are sent with an invalid QoS control
field; this is because we increase the header length but neither
initialise the space nor actually have enough space in the header
structure for the QoS control field.

This patch fixes it by treating the QoS field specially and appending it
explicitly, initialising it to zero.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Johannes Berg
11a843b7e1 [MAC80211]: rework key handling
This moves all the key handling code out from ieee80211_ioctl.c
into key.c and also does the following changes including documentation
updates in mac80211.h:

 1) Turn off hardware acceleration for keys when the interface
    is down. This is necessary because otherwise monitor
    interfaces could be decrypting frames for other interfaces
    that are down at the moment. Also, it should go some way
    towards better suspend/resume support, in any case the
    routines used here could be used for that as well.
    Additionally, this makes the driver interface nicer, keys
    for a specific local MAC address are only ever present
    while an interface with that MAC address is enabled.

 2) Change driver set_key() callback interface to allow only
    return values of -ENOSPC, -EOPNOTSUPP and 0, warn on all
    other return values. This allows debugging the stack when
    a driver notices it's handed a key while it is down.

 3) Invert the flag meaning to KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE.

 4) Remove REMOVE_ALL_KEYS command as it isn't used nor do we
    want to use it, we'll use DISABLE_KEY for each key. It is
    hard to use REMOVE_ALL_KEYS because we can handle multiple
    virtual interfaces with different key configuration, so we'd
    have to keep track of a lot of state for this and that isn't
    worth it.

 5) Warn when disabling a key fails, it musn't.

 6) Remove IEEE80211_HW_NO_TKIP_WMM_HWACCEL in favour of per-key
    IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_WMM_STA to let driver sort it out itself.

 7) Tell driver that a (non-WEP) key is used only for transmission
    by using an all-zeroes station MAC address when configuring.

 8) Change the set_key() callback to have access to the local MAC
    address the key is being added for.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:53 -07:00
Johannes Berg
3aefaa3294 [MAC80211]: remove fake set_key() call
Remove adding a fake key with a NONE key algorithm for each
associated STA. If we have hardware with such TX filtering
we should probably extend the sta_table_notification()
callback with the sta information instead; the fact that
it's treated as a key for some atheros hardware shouldn't
bother the stack.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:52 -07:00
Johannes Berg
8f20fc2498 [MAC80211]: embed key conf in key, fix driver interface
This patch embeds the struct ieee80211_key_conf into struct ieee80211_key
and thus avoids allocations and having data present twice.

This required some more changes:
 1) The removal of the IEEE80211_KEY_DEFAULT_TX_KEY key flag.
    This flag isn't used by drivers nor should it be since
    we have a set_key_idx() callback. Maybe that callback needs
    to be extended to include the key conf, but only a driver that
    requires it will tell.
 2) The removal of the IEEE80211_KEY_DEFAULT_WEP_ONLY key flag.
    This flag is global, so it shouldn't be passed in the key
    conf structure. Pass it to the function instead.

Also, this patch removes the AID parameter to the set_key() callback
because it is currently unused and the hardware currently cannot know
about the AID anyway. I suspect this was used with some hardware that
actually selected the AID itself, but that functionality was removed.

Additionally, I've removed the ALG_NULL key algorithm since we have
ALG_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:51 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
13262ffd49 [MAC80211]: Remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_sub_if_data
mac80211, remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_sub_if_data

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:50 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
badffb725c [MAC80211]: Remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_txrx_data
mac80211, remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_txrx_data

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:49 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
e8bf96495c [MAC80211]: Remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_tx_packet_data
remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_tx_packet_data

[Johannes: completely clear flags in ieee80211_remove_tx_extra]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:48 -07:00
Johannes Berg
cf966838cd [MAC80211]: use switch statement in tx code
The transmit code needs to set the addresses depending on the
interface type, a likely() for AP/VLAN is quite wrong since
most people will be using STA; convert to a switch statement
to make it look nicer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:48 -07:00
Johannes Berg
53cb670042 [MAC80211]: remove unused ioctls (2)
The ioctls

 * PRISM2_PARAM_STA_ANTENNA_SEL
 * PRISM2_PARAM_TX_POWER_REDUCTION
 * PRISM2_PARAM_DEFAULT_WEP_ONLY

are not used by hostapd or wpa_supplicant.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:45 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
172589ccdd [NET]: DIV_ROUND_UP cleanup (part two)
Hopefully captured all single statement cases under net/. I'm
not too sure if there is some policy about #includes that are
"guaranteed" (ie., in the current tree) to be available through
some other #included header, so I just added linux/kernel.h to
each changed file that didn't #include it previously.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:37 -07:00
Andy Green
9b8a74e348 [MAC80211]: Improve sanity checks on injected packets
Michael Wu noticed that the skb length checking is not taken care of enough when
a packet is presented on the Monitor interface for injection.

This patch improves the sanity checking and removes fake offsets placed
into the skb network and transport header.

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:41 -07:00
Daniel Drake
7e9ed18874 [MAC80211]: improved short preamble handling
Similarly to CTS protection, whether short preambles are used for 802.11b
transmissions should be a per-subif setting, not device global.

For STAs, this patch makes short preamble handling automatic based on the ERP
IE. For APs, hostapd still uses the prism ioctls, but the write ioctl has been
restricted to AP-only subifs.

ieee80211_txrx_data.short_preamble (an unused field) was removed.

Unfortunately, some API changes were required for the following functions:
 - ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
 - ieee80211_rts_duration
 - ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
 - ieee80211_rts_get
 - ieee80211_ctstoself_get
Affected drivers were updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:38 -07:00
Ivo van Doorn
d5d08def92 [MAC80211]: Add LONG_RETRY flag to ieee80211_tx_control
mac80211 informs the driver what the short and long retry values are through
set_retry_limit(), but when packets are being transmitted it did not inform the
driver which of the 2 retry limits should actually be used.
Instead it sends the actual value, but for drivers that can only set the retry limit
and the register and in the descriptor need to indicate which of the limits should
be used this is not really useful.

This patch will add a IEEE80211_TXCTL_LONG_RETRY_LIMIT flag to the
ieee80211_tx_control structure. By default the short retry limit should be
used but if the flag is set the long retry should be used.

This does not prevent the driver to ignore the request for "no retry" packets,
but at least those will be send out with the short retry limit. But there is no
perfect cure for this problem.. :(

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:38 -07:00
Michael Wu
be8755e180 [MAC80211]: improve locking of sta_info related structures
The sta_info code has some awkward locking which prevents some driver
callbacks from being allowed to sleep. This patch makes the locking more
focused so code that calls driver callbacks are allowed to sleep. It also
converts sta_lock to a rwlock.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:37 -07:00
Johannes Berg
e2ebc74d7e [MAC80211]: split TX path into own file
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:33 -07:00