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2013-12-02mac80211: Tx frame latency statisticsMatti Gottlieb1-0/+134
Measure TX latency and jitter statistics per station per TID. These Measurements are disabled by default and can be enabled via debugfs. Features included for each station's TID: 1. Keep count of the maximum and average latency of Tx frames. 2. Keep track of many frames arrived in a specific time range (need to enable through debugfs and configure the bins ranges) Signed-off-by: Matti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-01mac80211: add debugfs for driver-buffered TID bitmapJohannes Berg1-0/+9
Add a per-station debugfs file indicating the TIDs (as a bitmap) that the driver has data buffered on. Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-08mac80211: add beacon stats to debugfsBen Greear1-0/+2
Beacon-timeout and number of beacon loss events. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: add VHT capabilities station debugfs fileJohannes Berg1-0/+31
Add a new debugfs file to view a station's VHT capabilities. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04mac80211: mesh power save basicsMarco Porsch1-2/+3
Add routines to - maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode - indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames - track neighbor STAs power modes - buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode - add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons - release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor changes. Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated mesh peering is currently not working when either node is configured to be in power save mode. Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions. For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA pointer is already available. Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations. Track power modes based on received frames. Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer). Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons. Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames. Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status. Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and show large delay spikes and frame losses. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-11net: remove obsolete simple_strto<foo>Abhijit Pawar1-1/+0
This patch removes the redundant occurences of simple_strto<foo> Signed-off-by: Abhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-10net: remove obsolete simple_strto<foo>Abhijit Pawar1-0/+3
This patch replace the obsolete simple_strto<foo> with kstrto<foo> Signed-off-by: Abhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-29mac80211: add debugfs file for last rx rateSaravana1-0/+18
Add a debugfs file showing the rate at which the last packet is received. Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com> [fix whitespace] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29mac80211: add debugfs file for current tx rateSaravana1-0/+16
Add a debugfs file showing the current tx rate. The information available in the rc_stats file doesn't evidently provides us the current tx rate. This patch adds the support for the same. Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29mac80211: add debugfs file for last ack signalSaravana1-0/+2
Add a debugfs file showing the signal strength of the ack frame that is received for the currently sent tx packet Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-21mac80211: Add debugfs callbacks for station addition/removalSujith Manoharan1-0/+9
Provide drivers with hooks to create debugfs files when a new station is added. This would help drivers to take advantage of mac80211's station list infrastructure and not maintain tedious station management code internally. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> [ifdef inline wrapper functions] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-19mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS and use itJohannes Berg1-5/+5
Introduce IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS in the generic 802.11 header file and use it in place of STA_TID_NUM and NUM_RX_DATA_QUEUES which are both really the number of TIDs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-04-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
2012-04-10mac80211: Implement mesh synchronization frameworkJavier Cardona1-2/+3
This patch adds MBSS extensible synchronization framework (Sec. 13.13.2 of IEEE Std. 802.11-2012). The framework is implemented via an ops table which defines the following functions: rx_bcn_presp() - this is called every time a mesh beacon is received. adjust_tbtt() - this is called immediately before a beacon is about to be transmitted. The default neighbor offset synchronization defined in the standard is implemented. We also provide template functions for vendor specific methods. When neighbor offset synchronization is active (which is the default) mesh neighbors in the same MBSS will track timing offsets to each other and compensate clock drift. In our tests we observed that this mesh synchronization implementation successfully corrected drifts between stations of ~2PPM while introducing a jitter of ~20us. It is also possible to test this framework on mac80211_hwsim simulated phys to see how it behaves under different topologies, over poor links, etc. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Zubarev <pavel.zubarev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-05simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()Stephen Boyd1-2/+2
Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire tree. Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we can replace all the users of this function with simple_open(). This replacement was done with the following semantic patch: <smpl> @ open @ identifier open_f != simple_open; identifier i, f; @@ -int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) -{ ( -if (i->i_private) -f->private_data = i->i_private; | -f->private_data = i->i_private; ) -return 0; -} @ has_open depends on open @ identifier fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... -.open = open_f, +.open = simple_open, ... }; </smpl> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-06mac80211: call rate control only after initJohannes Berg1-2/+2
There are situations where we don't have the necessary rate control information yet for station entries, e.g. when associating. This currently doesn't really happen due to the dummy station handling; explicitly disabling rate control when it's not initialised will allow us to remove dummy stations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30mac80211: station state transition error handlingJohannes Berg1-2/+3
In the future, when we start notifying drivers, state transitions could potentially fail. To make it easier to distinguish between programming bugs and driver failures: * rename sta_info_move_state() to sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be called before the station is inserted (and check this with a new station flag). * rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be the regular function that can fail for more than just one reason (bad transition or an error from the driver) This makes the programming model easier -- one of the functions can only be called before insertion and can't fail, the other can fail. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
2011-11-21mac80211: remove unused ASSOC_AP flagJohannes Berg1-2/+2
WLAN_STA_ASSOC_AP indicates that the station entry is for an AP we're associated to but isn't used so remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: Fix AMSDU rate printout in debugfs.Ben Greear1-2/+2
It was flipped. See section 7.3.2.56 of the 802.11n spec for details. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: add missing station flags to debugfsJohannes Berg1-11/+14
My work and some previous work didn't add all the flags, add them now and while at it simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: optimise station flagsJohannes Berg1-10/+10
The flaglock in struct sta_info has long been something that I wanted to get rid of, this finally does the conversion to atomic bitops. The conversion itself is straight-forward in most places, a few things needed to change a bit since we can no longer use multiple bits at the same time. On x86-64, this is a fairly significant code size reduction: text data bss dec hex 427861 23648 1008 452517 6e7a5 before 425383 23648 976 450007 6ddd7 after Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: split PS buffers into ACsJohannes Berg1-2/+8
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split the buffers before really adding support for uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will never be non-zero. Since book-keeping is complicated, also change the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a station). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-19mac80211: fix debugfs printk format warningRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix printf() format warning (tm_year is long int): net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c:113: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long int' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12{mac|nl}80211: Add station connected timeMohammed Shafi Shajakhan1-0/+26
Add station connected time in debugfs. This will be helpful to get a measure of stability of the connection and for debugging stress issues Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start APISujith Manoharan1-1/+1
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead. The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc drivers. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29mac80211: fix RX aggregation lockingJohannes Berg1-14/+15
The RX aggregation locking documentation was wrong, which led Christian to also code the timer timeout handling for it somewhat wrongly. Fix the documentation, the two places that need to hold the reorder lock across accesses to the structure, and the debugfs code that should just use RCU. Also, remove acquiring the sta->lock across reorder timeouts since it isn't necessary, and change a few places to GFP_KERNEL because the code path here doesn't need atomic allocations as I noticed when reviewing all this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15mac80211: refactor debugfs function generation codeEliad Peller1-16/+10
refactor mac80211 debugfs code by using a format&copy function, instead of duplicating the code for each generated function. this change reduces about 600B from mac80211.ko Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds1-2/+3
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits) bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL. vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid. tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match cxgb3: function namespace cleanup tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module l2tp: small cleanup nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic 9p: client code cleanup rds: make local functions/variables static ... Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
2010-10-06mac80211: avoid transmitting delBA to old APJohannes Berg1-1/+2
When roaming while we have active BA session, we can end up transmitting delBA frames to the old AP while we're already on the new AP's channel, which can cause warnings. Simply avoid sending those frames, but still tear down the internal session state, since they are not really necessary anyway as we will implicitly disassociate when sending the association to the new AP. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27mac80211: Support multiple VIFS per AP in debugfs.Ben Greear1-1/+1
Create 'stations' sub-directory under each netdev:[vif-name] directory to hold all stations for that network device. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfsArnd Bergmann1-0/+2
The default llseek operation is changing from default_llseek to no_llseek, so all code relying on the current behaviour needs to make that explicit. The wireless driver infrastructure and some of the drivers make use of generated debugfs files, so they cannot be converted by our script that automatically determines the right operation. All these files use debugfs and they typically rely on simple_read_from_buffer, so the best llseek operation here is generic_file_llseek. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2010-06-14mac80211: make TX aggregation start/stop request asyncJohannes Berg1-4/+1
When the driver or rate control requests starting or stopping an aggregation session, that currently causes a direct callback into the driver, which could potentially cause locking problems. Also, the functions need to be callable from contexts that cannot sleep, and thus will interfere with making the ampdu_action callback sleeping. To address these issues, add a new work item for each station that will process any start or stop requests out of line. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregationJohannes Berg1-4/+4
Currently we allocate some memory for each TX aggregation session and additionally keep a state bitmap indicating the state it is in. By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving the state into the structure and some locking trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg session is fully operational. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for RX aggregationJohannes Berg1-3/+3
Currently we allocate some memory for each RX aggregation session and additionally keep a flag indicating whether or not it is valid. By using RCU to protect the pointer and making sure that the memory is fully set up before it becomes visible to the RX path, we can remove the need for the bool that indicates validity, as well as for locking on the RX path since it is always synchronised against itself, and we can guarantee that all other modifications are done when the structure is not visible to the RX path. The net result is that since we remove locking requirements from the RX path, we can in the future use any kind of lock for the setup and teardown code paths. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03mac80211: reduce debugfs code sizeFelix Fietkau1-25/+20
This patch reduces the binary size by around 25k (measured on MIPS, with CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_COUNTERS enabled). Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03mac80211: clean up ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_sessionJohannes Berg1-2/+1
There's no sense in letting anything but internal mac80211 functions set the initiator to anything but WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR, since WLAN_BACK_RECIPIENT is only valid when we have received a frame from the peer, which we react to directly in mac80211. The debugfs code I recently added got this wrong as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-03mac80211: allow controlling aggregation manuallyJohannes Berg1-1/+64
This allows enabling TX and disabling both TX and RX aggregation sessions manually in debugfs. It is very useful for debugging session initiation and teardown problems since with this you don't have to force a lot of traffic to get aggregation and thus have less data to analyse. Also, to debug mac80211 code itself, make hwsim "support" aggregation sessions. It will still just transfer the frame, but go through the setup and teardown handshakes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09mac80211: fix typo for LDPC capabilityLuis R. Rodriguez1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: clean up/fix aggregation codeJohannes Berg1-5/+5
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>
2010-03-09mac80211: deprecate RX status noiseJohannes Berg1-2/+0
The noise value as is won't be used, isn't filled by most drivers and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense on a per packet basis -- proper cfg80211 survey support in mac80211 will need to be different. Mark the struct member as deprecated so it will be removed from drivers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_agg_status_read()Pavel Roskin1-11/+13
Use a more compact and readable format for "agg_status" to reduce the stack frame to less than 1024 bytes. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_ht_capa_read()Pavel Roskin1-1/+1
The maximal size of the "ht_capa" file is 430 bytes. In most cases, it's much shorter. Use a 512 byte long buffer. 1024 bytes is too much and causes a warning with CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: only bother printing highest data rate on debugfs if its setLuis R. Rodriguez1-2/+10
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>
2009-12-22mac80211: parse the HT capabilities info through debugfsLuis R. Rodriguez1-1/+47
When debugging you want to be lazy and not have to parse bits yourself so let mac80211 debugfs do the parsing for you. This is what I get against my WRT610N: root@tux:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/stations/00\:22\:6b\:aa\:bb\:01/ht_capa ht supported cap: 0x000e HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled No RX STBC Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes No DSSS/CCK HT40 ampdu factor/density: 2/6 MCS mask: ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 MCS rx highest: 0 MCS tx params: 0 Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: make debugfs mcs set entry reflect 16 bitsLuis R. Rodriguez1-1/+1
The MCS set is 16 bits so when debugging ensure the full 16 bits are represented. Current reading would make you think its only 8 bits. Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg1-1/+1
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19mac80211: add per-station HT capability fileJohannes Berg1-0/+29
This is sometimes useful to debug HT issues as it shows what exactly the stack thinks the peer supports. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-06mac80211: async station powersave handlingJohannes Berg1-2/+3
Some devices require that all frames to a station are flushed when that station goes into powersave mode before being able to send frames to that station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in order to avoid reordering and too many or too few frames being sent to the station when it polls. Normally, this is the case unless the station goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again. But in that case, frames for it may be pending on the hardware queues, and thus races could happen in the case of multiple hardware queues used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem, but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make sure the race doesn't happen. This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER per-station flag that can be controlled by the driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit frames or not. This flag must be set according to very specific rules outlined in the documentation for the function that controls it. When we buffer new frames for the station, we normally set the TIM bit right away, but while the driver has blocked transmission to that sta we need to avoid that as well since we cannot respond to the station if it wakes up due to the TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set the TIM bit. Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we need to wait until all other frames are flushed before we can transmit frames to that station, so the same applies here, we need to wait for the driver to give the OK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: deprecate qual valueJohannes Berg1-2/+0
This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not be useful there because the quality value needs to be comparable between scan results and the current value which is impossible when the qual value is calculated taking into account noise, for example. Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes quite expensive calculations of the value. I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do which should probably be generalised if we have noise values from the hardware. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>