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Johannes Berg
c2b13452b2 mac80211: clean up scan namespace
Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_*
or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called
ieee80211_scan_*.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg
213cd118cb mac80211: make bridge_packets a virtual interface option
The bridge_packets configuration really should be per virtual
interface (theoretically per AP/VLAN, but this is much easier);
there currently is no way to set it yet though. Also invert
the option to "NO_BRIDGE_PACKETS" so the default is to bridge.

While at it, also document the flags properly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5bc75728fd mac80211: fix scan vs. interface removal race
When we remove an interface, we can currently end up having
a pointer to it left in local->scan_sdata after it has been
set down, and then with a hardware scan the scan completion
can try to access it which is a bug. Alternatively, a scan
that started as a hardware scan may terminate as though it
was a software scan, if the timing is just right.

On SMP systems, software scan also has a similar problem,
just canceling the delayed work and setting a flag isn't
enough since it may be running concurrently; in this case
we would also never restore state of other interfaces.

This patch hopefully fixes the problems by always invoking
ieee80211_scan_completed or requiring it to be invoked by
the driver, I suspect the drivers that have ->hw_scan() are
buggy. The bug will not manifest itself unless you remove
the interface while hw-scanning which will also turn off
the hw, and then add a new interface which will be unusable
until you scan once.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b7413430d4 mac80211: fix work race
When we stop an interface, the work on it may still be pending
or running. We do cancel the timer, but we do not currently
protect against the work struct. The race is very unlikely to
hit -- it'll happen only when the driver is using mac80211's
workqueue to run long-running tasks and the sta/mesh works are
delayed for quite a bit.

This patch fixes it by cancelling the work explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
472dbc45dc mac80211: split off mesh handling entirely
This patch splits off mesh handling from the STA/IBSS.
Unfortunately it increases mesh code size a bit, but I
think it makes things clearer. The patch also reduces
per-interface run-time memory usage.

Also clean up a few places where ifdef is not required.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5825fe100d mac80211: initialise queue QoS parameters at hw start
When hardware is started it might be in a confused state with
respect to queue QoS parameters. This patch changes mac80211
to set sane defaults right after the hardware is brought up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
bacac545f1 mac80211: move some HT code out of main.c
Now that I've created ht.c, I can move the aggregation
code from main.c into it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
491775a507 mac80211: use sdata pointer for scan interface
Since we now use sdata pointers most of the time, using a netdev
pointer here is somewhat artificial, use an sdata pointer instead.
Replace a netdev-prefix in a few messages by a wiphy-prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
00c5ae2fa0 mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS
This patch follows 11n spec naming more rigorously replacing MIMO_PS
with SM_PS (Spatial Multiplexing Power Save).

(Originally submitted as 4 patches, "mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
"iwlwifi: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS", "ath9k: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
and "iwlwifi: remove double definition of SM PS". -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:31 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
f59ac04816 cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:42 -04:00
Johannes Berg
7f93ea3e24 mac80211: fill start-sequence-number for BA session start
Otherwise, drivers are required to keep track of the sequence numbers
themselves, and they really shouldn't be since we already do it for
them. I'll fix the race once we figure out how this code should work
at all, it's currently disabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:23:55 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
48c2fc59aa mac80211: cleanup mlme state namespace
This patch move add STA_MLME to station mlme state defines.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:59 -04:00
Jasper Bryant-Greene
f698d856f6 replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate
This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions
with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate.

It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the
mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device.

If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since
mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway,
the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat.

This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be
converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be
provided.

Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:58 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
bdbe819540 mac80211: allow no mac address until firmware load
Originally by Johannes Berg. This patch adds support for devices that do not
report their MAC address until the firmware is loaded. While the address is not
known, a multicast on is used.

Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:55 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
62bf1d762e mac80211: explicitly check skb->len
ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb internally checks the skb is long enough to
hold the full ieee80211_hdr, else it returns zero.  Use ieee80211_hdrlen
which always returns the hdrlen and check the remaining room in the
skb explicitly when removing encryption headers or the qos control field.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:53 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
8dbc1722a7 mac80211: keep mesh ifaces in allmulti mode
Currently a mesh node will not forward a multicast frame if it is not subscribed
to the specific multicast address. This patch addresses the issue and fixes mesh
multicast forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-07 09:49:04 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
ea95bba41e mac80211: make listen_interval be limited by low level driver
This patch makes possible for a driver to specify maximal listen interval
The possibility for user to configure listen interval is not implemented
yet, currently the maximum provided by the driver or 1 is used.
Mac80211 uses config handler to set listen interval for to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-04 15:09:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d0f0980414 mac80211: partially fix skb->cb use
This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step
from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now,
disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing,
will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software
requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is
not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:55:08 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
023a04bebe mac80211: return correct error return from ieee80211_wep_init
Return the proper error code rather than a hard-coded ENOMEM from
ieee80211_wep_init.  Also, print the error code on failure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:55:07 -04:00
David S. Miller
51cb6db0f5 mac80211: Reimplement WME using ->select_queue().
The only behavior change is that we do not drop packets under any
circumstances.  If that is absolutely needed, we could easily add it
back.

With cleanups and help from Johannes Berg.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
09e83b5d7d netdev: Kill NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE.
There is no need for a feature bit for something that
can be tested by simply checking the TX queue count.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:03 -07:00
David S. Miller
e8a0464cc9 netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.
alloc_netdev_mq() now allocates an array of netdev_queue
structures for TX, based upon the queue_count argument.

Furthermore, all accesses to the TX queues are now vectored
through the netdev_get_tx_queue() and netdev_for_each_tx_queue()
interfaces.  This makes it easy to grep the tree for all
things that want to get to a TX queue of a net device.

Problem spots which are not really multiqueue aware yet, and
only work with one queue, can easily be spotted by grepping
for all netdev_get_tx_queue() calls that pass in a zero index.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:00 -07:00
David S. Miller
b9e4085768 netdev: Do not use TX lock to protect address lists.
Now that we have a specific lock to protect the network
device unicast and multicast lists, remove extraneous
grabs of the TX lock in cases where the code only needs
address list protection.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-15 00:15:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
e308a5d806 netdev: Add netdev->addr_list_lock protection.
Add netif_addr_{lock,unlock}{,_bh}() helpers.

Use them to protect operations that operate on or read
the network device unicast and multicast address lists.

Also use them in cases where the code simply wants to
block calls into the driver's ->set_rx_mode() and
->set_multicast_list() methods.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-15 00:13:44 -07:00
Johannes Berg
9d139c810a mac80211: revamp beacon configuration
This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling
to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always
require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally,
it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call
to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it
removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of
having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:30:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg
75636525fb mac80211: revamp virtual interface handling
This patch revamps the virtual interface handling and makes the
code much easier to follow. Fewer functions, better names, less
spaghetti code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:30:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3e122be089 mac80211: make master netdev handling sane
Currently, almost every interface type has a 'bss' pointer
pointing to BSS information. This BSS information, however,
is for a _local_ BSS, not for the BSS we joined, so having
it on a STA mode interface makes little sense, but now they
have it pointing to the master device, which is an AP mode
virtual interface. However, except for some bitrate control
data, this pointer is only used in AP/VLAN modes (for power
saving stations.)

Overall, it is not necessary to even have the master netdev
be a valid virtual interface, and it doesn't have to be on
the list of interfaces either.

This patch changes the master netdev to be special, it now
 - no longer is on the list of virtual interfaces, which
   lets me remove a lot of tests for that
 - no longer has sub_if_data attached, since that isn't used

Additionally, this patch changes some vlan/ap mode handling
that is related to these 'bss' pointers described above (but
in the VLAN case they actually make sense because there they
point to the AP they belong to); it also adds some debugging
code to IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF to validate it is not called
on the master netdev any more.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:30:06 -04:00
David S. Miller
86d804e10a netdev: Make netif_schedule() routines work with netdev_queue objects.
Only plain netif_schedule() remains taking a net_device, mostly as a
compatability item while we transition the rest of these interfaces.

Everything else calls netif_schedule_queue() or __netif_schedule(),
both of which take a netdev_queue pointer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 23:11:25 -07:00
David S. Miller
c2aa288548 mac80211: Decrease number of explicit ->tx_queue references.
Accomplish this by using local variables.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 23:01:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
dc2b48475a netdev: Move queue_lock into struct netdev_queue.
The lock is now an attribute of the device queue.

One thing to notice is that "suspicious" places
emerge which will need specific training about
multiple queue handling.  They are so marked with
explicit "netdev->rx_queue" and "netdev->tx_queue"
references.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 17:18:23 -07:00
David S. Miller
7c3ceb4a40 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c
	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-07-08 16:30:17 -07:00
Tomas Winkler
fc32f9243d mac80211: call bss_info_change only once upon disassociation
This patch removes call of ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify from within
ieee80211_reset_erp_info. This allows gathering all bss info changes
into one call to the driver in the disassociation flow.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:16:01 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky
429a380571 mac80211: add block ack request capability
This patch adds block ack request capability

Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
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>
2008-07-08 10:21:34 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
ea0c925370 mac80211: Only flush workqueue when last interface was removed
Currently the ieee80211_hw->workqueue is flushed each time
an interface is being removed. However most scheduled work
is not interface specific but device specific, for example things like
periodic work for link tuners.

This patch will move the flush_workqueue() call to directly behind
the call to ops->stop() to make sure the workqueue is only flushed
when all interfaces are gone and there really shouldn't be any scheduled
work in the drivers left.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-07 15:31:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f4ea83dd74 mac80211: rework debug settings and make debugging safer
This patch reworks the mac80211 debug settings making them more focused
and adding help text for those that didn't have one. It also removes a
number of printks that can be triggered remotely and add no value, e.g.
"too short deauthentication frame received - ignoring".

If somebody really needs to debug that they should just add a monitor
interface and look at the frames in wireshark.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-02 15:48:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
59959a6150 mac80211: make workqueue freezable
This patch makes the mac80211 workqueue freezable making it
interact a bit better with system suspend and not try to ping
the AP while the hardware is down.

This doesn't really help with implementing proper suspend in
any way but makes some bad things trigger less.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:21 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
dc0ae30c31 mac80211: fix beacon interval value
This patch fixes setting beacon interval

1. in register_hw it honors value requested by the driver
2. It uses default 100 instead of 1000 or 10000. Scanning for beacon
interval ~1sec and above is not sane

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14 12:18:11 -04:00
David S. Miller
65b53e4cc9 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
2008-06-10 02:22:26 -07:00
Assaf Krauss
ad81b2f97d mac80211: Fixing slow IBSS rejoin
This patch fixes the issue of slow reconnection to an IBSS cell after
disconnection from it. Now the interface's bssid is reset upon ifdown.

ieee80211_sta_find_ibss:
if (found && memcmp(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN) != 0 &&
	    (bss = ieee80211_rx_bss_get(dev, bssid,
					local->hw.conf.channel->center_freq,
					ifsta->ssid, ifsta->ssid_len)))

Note:
In general disconnection is still not handled properly in mac80211

Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-09 15:50:20 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
b83f4e15e6 mac80211: fix deadlock in sta->lock
This patch fixes a deadlock of sta->lock use, occurring while changing
tx aggregation states, as dev_queue_xmit end up in new function
test_and_clear_sta_flags that uses that lock thus leading to deadlock

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:16 -04:00
Yi Zhu
f6d9710489 mac80211: fix a typo in ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame comment
fix a typo in ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame comment

Signed-off-by: Yi Zhu <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-28 16:43:49 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e253008360 mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice
This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg
36d6825b91 mac80211: let drivers wake but not start queues
Having drivers start queues is just confusing, their ->start()
callback can block and do whatever is necessary, so let mac80211
start queues and have drivers wake queues when necessary (to get
packets flowing again right away.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:08 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky
edcdf8b21a mac80211: separate Tx and Rx MCS when configuring HT
This patch follows the 11n spec in separation between Tx and Rx MCS
capabilities. Up until now, when configuring the HT possible set of Tx
MCS only Rx MCS were considered, assuming they are the same as the Tx MCS.
This patch fixed this by looking at low level driver Tx capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:52 -04:00
David S. Miller
f42a44494b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-05-15 00:52:37 -07:00
David S. Miller
63fe46da9c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
2008-05-15 00:34:44 -07:00
Bruno Randolf
566bfe5a8b mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.

this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.

for signal:

  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW

for noise we currently only have dBm:

  IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW

if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.

i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.

DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
  rt2400        dBm             n/a
  rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
  rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
  rt61pci       dBm             n/a
  rt73usb       dBm             n/a
rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent

drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
Johannes Berg
07346f81e8 mac80211: proper STA info locking
As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
CPUs at the same time.

Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive
parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills
the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one
for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this
is safe.

It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta
flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this
is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be
very simple using the new static inline functions this patch
introduces for accessing sta->flags.

Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't
be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the
same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which
is in a bh context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e100bb64bf mac80211: QoS related cleanups
This
 * makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16
   (as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping)
 * removes the useless queue number defines
 * splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues
 * removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters
 * removes some dead QoS code
 * removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS
   so that the drivers now never get a queue number
   bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1)
   for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for
   conf_tx.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07 15:02:26 -04:00