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Andres Salomon
c2ef355bf3 mac80211: give warning if building w/out rate ctrl algorithm
I discovered that if EMBEDDED=y, one can accidentally build a mac80211 stack
and drivers w/ no rate control algorithm.  For drivers like RTL8187 that don't
supply their own RC algorithms, this will cause ieee80211_register_hw to
fail (making the driver unusable).

This will tell kconfig to provide a warning if no rate control algorithms
have been selected.  That'll at least warn the user; users that know that
their drivers supply a rate control algorithm can safely ignore the
warning, and those who don't know (or who expect to be using multiple
drivers) can select a default RC algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:09:40 -05:00
Kalle Valo
59d9cb071d mac80211: remove payload alignment warning
The payload alignment warning enabled by MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT is
difficult. To fix it, a firmware change is needed but in most cases that's
very difficult. So the benefit from the warning is low and most probably
it just creates more confusion for people who just enable all warnings
(like it did for me).

Remove the unaligned IP payload warning and the kconfig option. But
leave the unaligned packet warning, it will be enabled with
MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:56:09 -05:00
Rui Paulo
27db2e423f mac80211: add MAC80211_VERBOSE_MHWMP_DEBUG
Add MAC80211_VERBOSE_MHWMP_DEBUG, a debugging option for HWMP
frame processing.

Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:58 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
abd8ea22c2 wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu
We can just display this upon enabling mac80211 with an
'if MAC80211 != n' check.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-02 15:29:03 -04:00
Javier Cardona
18889231e4 mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.
This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the
table growth code to the mesh workqueue.

Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and
declare them static.

Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a9a11622c5 cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible
Finally! This is what you've all been waiting for!

This patch makes cfg80211 take care of wext emulation
_completely_ by itself, drivers that don't need things
cfg80211 doesn't do yet don't even need to be aware of
wireless extensions.
This means we can also clean up mac80211's and iwm's
Kconfig and make it possible to build them w/o wext
now!

		RIP wext.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29 15:46:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0a2b8bb24d mac80211: driver operation debugging
This makes mac80211 use the event tracing framework
to log all operations as given to the driver. This
will need to be extended with more information, but
as a start it should be good.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:06 -04:00
David S. Miller
74d154189d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c
	net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-23 19:03:51 -07:00
Johannes Berg
e2e414d923 mac80211: disable mesh
My kvm instance was complaining a lot about sleeping
in atomic contexts in the mesh code, and it turns out
that both mesh_path_add() and mpp_path_add() need to
be able to sleep (they even use synchronize_rcu()!).
I put in a might_sleep() to annotate that, but I see
no way, at least right now, of actually making sure
those functions are only called from process context
since they are both called during TX and RX and the
mesh code itself even calls them with rcu_read_lock()
"held".

Therefore, let's disable it completely for now.

It's possible that I'm only seeing this because the
hwsim's beaconing is broken and thus the peers aren't
discovered right away, but it is possible that this
happens even if beaconing is working, for a peer that
doesn't exist or so.

It should be possible to solve this by deferring the
freeing of the tables to call_rcu() instead of using
synchronize_rcu(), and also using atomic allocations,
but maybe it makes more sense to rework the code to
not call these from atomic contexts and defer more of
the work to the workqueue. Right now, I can't work on
either of those solutions though.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-21 12:07:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
bc92afd920 cfg80211: implement iwpower
Just on/off and timeout, and with a hacky cfg80211 method
until we figure out what we want, though this is probably
sufficient as we want to use pm_qos for wifi everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 15:01:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0aa8204b46 cfg80211: fix Kconfig for users of cfg80211
* iwm doesn't depend on cfg80211 or wireless extensions
 * rndis wlan selects cfg80211 - needs to depend
 * mac80211 selects cfg80211 - needs to depend

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:09:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg
bbbdff9e00 mac80211: enable PS by default
Enable PS by default (depending on Kconfig) -- rely on drivers
to control the level using pm_qos. Due to the previous patch
we turn off PS when necessary due to latency requirements.

This has a Kconfig symbol so people can, if they really want,
configure the default in their kernels. We may want to keep it
at "default y" only in wireless-testing for a while.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:57:16 -04:00
Robert P. J. Day
18aaab15f9 MAC80211: Remove unused MAC80211_VERBOSE_SPECT_MGMT_DEBUG.
Remove this unused Kconfig variable, which Intel apparently once
promised to make use of but never did.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-20 16:36:26 -04:00
Matt LaPlante
692105b8ac trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
8eb41c9368 mac80211: make Minstrel the default rate control algorithm
This makes minstrel the default rate control algorithm
for mac80211. For more information see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/RateControl/minstrel

If someone can come up with a better algorithm they get a prize
(undisclosed).

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:03 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
cccf129f82 mac80211: add the 'minstrel' rate control algorithm
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06 18:14:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
538df283c1 mac80211: remove debug frame dumping
You can just pull up a monitor interface to get much more
detailed information, or, when debugging a driver, insert
dump code into the driver (which usually you will have to
do anyway to dump the driver-specific information). Hence
this option is useless.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:26 -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
24344d2600 mac80211: Temporarily mark QoS support BROKEN.
We will undo this after a few changsets.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:05 -07:00
David S. Miller
b19fa1fa91 net: Delete NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE kconfig option.
Multiple TX queue support is a core networking feature.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 23:14:24 -07:00
Rami Rosen
4e887d5b2f mac80211: remove MAC80211_DEBUG from net/mac80211/Kconfig.
This patch removes MAC80211_DEBUG from /net/mac80211/Kconfig
(in MAC80211_DEBUG_COUNTERS config entry), and replaces
MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU instead of MAC80211_DEBUG
(in MAC80211_VERBOSE_SPECT_MGMT_DEBUG config entry).

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:15:59 -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
Adrian Bunk
e5f5e7339c build algorithms into the mac80211 module
The old infrastructure was:
- the default algorithm is built into mac80211
- other algorithms get into their own modules

The implementation of this complicated scheme was horrible
(just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new
algorithm would most likely not get it right at his first attempt.

This patch therefore builds all enabled algorithms into the mac80211
module.

The user interface for the rate control algorithms changes as follows:
- first the user can choose which algorithms to enable (currently only
  MAC80211_RC_PID is available)
- if more than one algorithm is enabled (currently not possible since
  only one algorithm is present) the user then chooses the default one

Note:
- MAC80211_RC_PID is always enables for CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n

Technical changes:
- all selected algorithms get into the mac80211 module
- net/mac80211/Makefile can now become much less complicated
- support for rc80211_pid_algo.c being modular is no longer required
- this includes unexporting mesh_plink_broken

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-30 17:37:34 -04:00
Yi Zhu
7b1e78d505 mac80211: add MAC80211_VERBOSE_SPECT_MGMT_DEBUG Kconfig option
The patch introduces MAC80211_VERBOSE_SPECT_MGMT_DEBUG Kconfig option to
suppress Spectrum Management 802.11h related debug logs.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-30 17:37:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9ae705cfd3 mac80211: rename TKIP debugging Kconfig symbol
... to MAC80211_TKIP_DEBUG rather than TKIP_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:15 -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
Luca Tettamanti
bd8fd21dfd wireless: Fix compile error with wifi & leds
Fix build error caused by commit
e82404ad61 ("iwlwifi: Select
LEDS_CLASS.") from David Miller:

Since MAC80211_LEDS is selected by wireless drivers it must select its
own dependencies otherwise a build error may occur (kbuild will select
the symbol regardless of "depends" constraints).

Signed-off-By: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-27 15:34:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
d9357136ac the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:02:31 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
37659ff8e1 mac80211: fix mesh endianness sparse warnings and unmark it as broken
This patch fixes all the mesh related endianness warnings reported by sparse. As
they were the reason why Johannes marked mesh as BROKEN, that flag has been
removed.

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>
2008-03-06 16:40:48 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5c142e8db4 mac80211: clarify mesh Kconfig
This clarifies that the mesh networking code is currently
based on Draft 1.08 of the 802.11 Mesh Networking amendment.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:44 -05:00
Johannes Berg
2f5ce793c0 mac80211: enable mesh in Kconfig
Currently marked BROKEN because of endianness problems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:43 -05:00
Michael Buesch
03ac7a8141 mac80211: Is not EXPERIMENTAL anymore
Remove the EXPERIMENTAL dependency, as the existing mac80211
features are stable.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-05 14:35:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6feeb8aad7 mac80211: make alignment warning optional
Driver authors should be aware of the alignment requirements, but
not everybody cares about the warning. This patch makes it depend
on a new Kconfig symbol MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT which can
be enabled regardless of MAC80211_DEBUG and is recommended for
driver authors (only). This also restricts the warning to data
packets so other packets need not be realigned to not trigger the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-01 16:12:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4b475898ec mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection
This patch changes mac80211's Kconfig/Makefile to:
 * select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control
   algorithm as default
 * always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,
   building those that are selected 'y' into the mac80211
   module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)
 * force the default rate control algorithm to be built into
   mac80211

It also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again
with MODULE_LICENSE etc.

Only if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select "NONE" as default
which will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work
only when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).

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 15:01:02 -08:00
John W. Linville
c40896de50 net/mac80211/Kconfig: whitespace corrections
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:55 -08:00
Stefano Brivio
c21b39aca4 mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default
This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

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 14:59:41 -08:00
Mattias Nissler
ad01837593 mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm
Add a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the
percentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and
uses its output to control the TX rate.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:18 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky
82b3cad942 mac80211: adding MAC80211_HT_DEBUG config variable
This patch adds MAC80211_HT_DEBUG config variable
to separate HT debug features

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:29 -08:00
Johannes Berg
d52a60ad38 mac80211: fix MAC80211_RCSIMPLE Kconfig
I meant for this to be selectable only with EMBEDDED, not enabled only
with EMBEDDED. This does it that way. Sorry.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 22:01:42 -08:00
Johannes Berg
ac71c691e6 mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in
Too frequently people do not have module autoloading enabled
or fail to install the rate control module correctly, hence
their hardware probing fails due to no rate control algorithm
being available. This makes the 'simple' algorithm built into
the mac80211 module unless EMBEDDED is enabled in which case
it can be disabled (eg. if the wanted driver requires another
rate control algorithm.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 21:59:23 -08:00
Jiri Benc
e9f207f0ff [MAC80211]: Add debugfs attributes.
Export various mac80211 internal variables through debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-05 11:46:38 -07:00
Jiri Benc
f0706e828e [MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.
Add mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-05 11:45:53 -07:00