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Johannes Berg f0e72851f7 mac80211: fix A-MPDU queue assignment
Internally, mac80211 requires the skb's queue mapping to be set
to the AC queue, not the virtual A-MPDU queue. This is not done
correctly currently, this patch moves the code down to directly
before the driver is invoked and adds a comment that it will be
moved into the driver later.

Since this requires __ieee80211_tx() to have the sta pointer,
make sure to provide it in ieee80211_tx_pending().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2de8e0d999 mac80211: rewrite fragmentation
Fragmentation currently uses an allocated array to store the
fragment skbs, and then keeps track of which have been sent
and which are still pending etc. This is rather complicated;
make it simpler by just chaining the fragments into skb->next
and removing from that list when sent. Also simplifies all
code that needs to touch fragments, since it now only needs
to walk the skb->next list.

This is a prerequisite for fixing the stored packet code,
which I need to do for proper aggregation packet storing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:21 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 08df05aa9b iwlwifi: show current driver status in user readable format
change the display of current driver status bit to user readable format
for better and easier debugging

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:20 -04:00
Michael Buesch dd970e43d8 b43: Add BCM4307 PCI-ID
00:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4307 Ethernet Controller [14e4:4306] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4307 Ethernet Controller [14e4:4306]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
    Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: ssb

Reported-by: yoann <yoann71@msn.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4bbf4d5658 cfg80211: fix locking in nl80211_set_wiphy
Luis reports that there's a circular locking dependency;
this is because cfg80211_dev_rename() will acquire the
cfg80211_mutex while the device mutex is held, while
this normally is done the other way around. The solution
is to open-code the device-getting in nl80211_set_wiphy
and require holding the mutex around cfg80211_dev_rename
rather than acquiring it within.

Also fix a bug -- rtnl locking is expected by drivers so
we need to provide it.

Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 3832c287f1 mac80211: fix RX path
My previous patch ("mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME code")
was too obvious to me, so obvious that a stupid bug crept in. The IBSS
RX function must be invoked for IBSS, of course, not anything != IBSS.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:19 -04:00
Bob Copeland 5a0fe8ac70 ath5k: properly drop packets from ops->tx
We shouldn't return NETDEV_TX_BUSY from the TX callback, especially
after we've mucked with the sk_buffs.  Drop the packets and return
NETDEV_TX_OK.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:19 -04:00
Christian Lamparter de00c04ecb ar9170: single module build
This patch restores all-in-one module build procedure for ar9170.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 051b919188 ath9k: fix dma mapping leak of rx buffer upon rmmod
We were claiming DMA buffers on the RX tasklet but never
upon a simple module removal.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:19 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn 14344b81ec rt2x00: New USB ID for rt73usb
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:18 -04:00
Bob Copeland b726604706 ath5k: warn and correct rate for unknown hw rate indexes
ath5k sets up a mapping table from the hardware rate index to
the rate index used by mac80211; however, we have seen some
received frames with incorrect rate indexes.  Such frames
normally get dropped with a warning in __ieee80211_rx(),
but it doesn't include enough information to track down the
error.

This patch adds a warning to hw_to_driver_rix for any lookups
that result in a rate index of -1, then returns a valid rate so
the frame can be processed.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:18 -04:00
Lorenzo Nava a3c0b87c4f b43: fix b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm return type
This patch fixes the return type of b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm. If
the plcp contains an error, the function return value is 255 instead
of -1, and the packet was not dropped. This causes a warning in
__ieee80211_rx function because rate idx is out of range.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:18 -04:00
Christian Lamparter a1bfa0eb98 p54: Kconfig maintenance
This patch updates p54's Kconfig entry and removes the out-dated device list.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2b874e83c9 mac80211: rate control status only for controlled packets
This patch changes mac80211 to not notify the rate control algorithm's
tx_status() method when reporting status for a packet that didn't go
through the rate control algorithm's get_rate() method.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:15 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 4a48e2a484 ar9170: simplify & deBUG tx_status queueing and reporting
This patch simplifies the tx_status report code by using four tx_queues per
station instead of only one. (the skb lookup should be in O(1) now :-p ).

Also, it fixes a really obvious copy&paste bug in the janitor work code and
adds back a few spilled bits to the hardware definition header about QoS.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:14 -04:00
Kalle Valo 04de838159 mac80211: add beacon filtering support
Add IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING flag so that driver inform that it supports
beacon filtering. Drivers need to call the new function
ieee80211_beacon_loss() to notify about beacon loss.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:13 -04:00
Kalle Valo a08c1c1ac0 cfg80211: add feature to hold bss
In beacon filtering there needs to be a way to not expire the BSS even
when no beacons are received. Add an interface to cfg80211 to hold
BSS and make sure that it's not expired.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:13 -04:00
Kalle Valo 9050bdd858 mac80211: disable power save when scanning
When software scanning we need to disable power save so that all possible
probe responses and beacons are received. For hardware scanning assume that
hardware will take care of that and document that assumption.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:12 -04:00
Kalle Valo 15b7b0629c mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activity
Separate beacon and rx path tracking in preparation for the beacon filtering
support. At the same time change ieee80211_associated() to look a bit simpler.

Probe requests are now sent only after IEEE80211_PROBE_IDLE_TIME, which
is now set to 60 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:12 -04:00
Kalle Valo 3cf335d527 mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timer
Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds
(IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during
data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will
still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later.

There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the
data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity
on the data path.

This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to
Johannes Berg for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:12 -04:00
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho af83debf5b ath5k: Support LED's on Acer Extensa 5620z
Add vendor ID for Quanta Microsystems and update the led table with the reported device.

Reported-by: Scott Barnes <nekoreeve@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:10 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 75ca88c970 ar9170: update Makefile, Kconfig and MAINTAINERS
This patch update all necessary Makefile and Kconfig files.

Now you can then enable ar9170 in the kernel configuration under:
Device Drivers --->
	[*] Network device support --->
		Wireless LAN --->
			[*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
			<M>   Atheros AR9170 support
			<M>     Atheros AR9170 USB support

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:09 -04:00
Christian Lamparter b63a2cb304 ar9170: ar9170: USB frontend driver
USB frontend driver code for Atheros' AR9170 modules.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:09 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 6cb1935353 ar9170: mac/bbp and phy code
MAC/BBP and PHY programming code

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:09 -04:00
Christian Lamparter e9348cdd28 ar9170: ar9170: mac80211 interaction code
This patch contains almost all mac80211 interaction code of AR9170.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:08 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 23b53f4f55 ar9170: hardware and eeprom header files
hardware / firmware interface definitions for Atheros' AR9170 based devices.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg 7986cf9581 mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME code
Neither can currently be set from userspace, so there's no
regression potential, and neither will be supported from
userspace since the new userspace APIs allow the SME, which
is in userspace, to control all we need.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg ac7f9cfa2c cfg80211: accept no-op interface mode changes
When somebody tries to set the interface mode to the existing
mode, don't ask the driver but silently accept the setting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:08 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 86f04680df cfg80211: remove code about country IE support with OLD_REG
We had left in code to allow interested developers to add
support for parsing country IEs when OLD_REG was enabled.
This never happened and since we're going to remove OLD_REG
lets just remove these comments and code for it.

This code path was never being entered so this has no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:07 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 6ee7d33056 cfg80211: make regdom module parameter available oustide of OLD_REG
It seems a few users are using this module parameter although its not
recommended. People are finding it useful despite there being utilities
for setting this in userspace. I'm not aware of any distribution using
this though.

Until userspace and distributions catch up with a default userspace
automatic replacement (GeoClue integration would be nirvana) we copy
the ieee80211_regdom module parameter from OLD_REG to the new reg
code to help these users migrate.

Users who are using the non-valid ISO / IEC 3166 alpha "EU" in their
ieee80211_regdom module parameter and migrate to non-OLD_REG enabled
system will world roam.

This also schedules removal of this same ieee80211_regdom module
parameter circa March 2010. Hope is by then nirvana is reached and
users will abandoned the module parameter completely.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:07 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez cc0b6fe88e cfg80211: fix incorrect assumption on last_request for 11d
The incorrect assumption is the last regulatory request
(last_request) is always a country IE when processing
country IEs. Although this is true 99% of the time the
first time this happens this could not be true.

This fixes an oops in the branch check for the last_request
when accessing drv_last_ie. The access was done under the
assumption the struct won't be null.

Note to stable: to port to 29 replace as follows, only 29 has
country IE code:

s|NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE|REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Quentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:07 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 2e097dc656 cfg80211: force last_request to be set for OLD_REG if regdom is EU
Although EU is a bogus alpha2 we need to process the send request
as our code depends on last_request being set.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Quentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:06 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 98dfaa5778 mac80211_hwsim: let the reg workqueue breathe when regtest is set
Without this the regulatory domain isn't seen and we end up
intersecting for each request (each radio).

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:06 -04:00
Pat Erley 9cb5412b07 Add mesh point functionality to ath9k
This patch enables mesh point operation for ath9k.  Tested with b43,
ath9k, rt2500usb, and ath5k as peers.

Signed-off-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:06 -04:00
Christian Lamparter d8cd7effc2 p54: fix SoftLED compile dependencies
This patch fixes a compile problem when the MAC80211_LEDS
triggers are enabled but not LED class itself.
(which is sort of pointless, but anyway...)

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:06 -04:00
Jouni Malinen eec60b037a nl80211: Check iftype in cfg80211 code
We do not want to require all the drivers using cfg80211 to need to do
this. In addition, make the error values consistent by using
EOPNOTSUPP instead of semi-random assortment of errno values.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:05 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 35a8efe1a6 nl80211: Check that netif_runnin is true in cfg80211 code
We do not want to require all the drivers using cfg80211 to need to do
this or to be prepared to handle these commands when the interface is
down.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:05 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 255e737eab nl80211: Add more through validation of MLME command parameters
Check that the used authentication type and reason code are valid here
so that drivers/mac80211 do not need to care about this. In addition,
remove the unnecessary validation of SSID attribute length which is
taken care of by netlink policy.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:04 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 65fc73ac4a nl80211: Remove NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE
The functionality that NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE provided can now
be achieved with cleaner design by adding IE(s) into
NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN, NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE,
NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE, and
NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE.

Since this is a very recently added command and there are no known (or
known planned) applications using NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE and
taken into account how much extra complexity it adds to the IE
processing we have now (and need to add in the future to fix IE order
in couple of frames), it looks like the best option is to just remove
the implementation of this command for now. The enum values themselves
are left to avoid changing the nl80211 command or attribute numbers.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:04 -04:00
Michael Buesch feeb444549 ssb: remove EXPERIMENTAL dependencies.
ssb is not experimental anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:04 -04:00
Jouni Malinen d7873cb9ab mac80211: Fix memleak in nl80211 authentication on deinit
This file was forgotten from the quilt patch that added MLME
primitives, so the kfree on interface removal is missing. Fix this
potential memleak by freeing the temporary Authentication frame IEs
from SME when the interface is being removed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:04 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 6b2c40326f ath9k: Nuke struct ath_xmit_status
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:03 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 8a92e2ee02 ath9k: Fix bug in reporting status of tx rate
This patch updates count of every hw tried rate with
appropriate tries before reporting tx status of a frame.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg 827b1fb44b mac80211: resume properly, add suspend/resume test
When mac80211 resumes, it currently doesn't reconfigure the interfaces
entirely and also doesn't reconfigure BSS information -- fix this.

Also, to be able to test this, add a debugfs file that just calls
the suspend/resume code to see what happens when we go through that,
without needing the time-consuming suspend/resume cycle.

(Original version broke the build for CONFIG_PM=n.  Define alternative
functions for that situation. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:03 -04:00
Michael Buesch 3e3ccb3d9b b43: Mask PHY TX error interrupt, if not debugging
This masks the PHY TX error interrupt, if debugging is disabled.

Currently we have a bug somewhere which triggers this interrupt once
in a while. (Depends on the network noise/quality). While this is nonfatal,
it scares the hell out of users and we frequently receive bugreports
that incorrectly identify this error message as the reason.

There's another problem with this. The PHY TX error interrupt is protected
with a watchdog that will restart the device if it keeps triggering very often.
This is used to fix interrupt storms from completely broken devices.

However, this watchdog might trigger in completely normal operation.
If the TX capacity of the card is saturated, the likeliness of the watchdog
triggering increases, as more TX errors occur. The current threshold
for the watchdog is 1000 errors in 15 seconds.

This patch adds a workaround for the issue by just enabling the interrupt
if debugging is disabled (by Kconfig or by modparam).

This has the downside that real fatal PHY TX errors are not caught anymore.
But this is nonfatal due to the following reasons:
* If the card is not able to transmit anymore, MLME will notice anyway.
* I did _never_ see a real fatal PHY TX error in a mainline b43 driver.
* It does _not_ result in interrupt storms or something like that.
  It will simply result in a stalled card. It can be debugged by enabling
  the debugging module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:03 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 1bf68e5cda wireless/p54: P54_SPI should depend on GENERIC_HARDIRQS
m68k allmodconfig:
| drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.c: In function 'p54spi_probe':
| drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.c:675: error: implicit declaration of function
| 'set_irq_type'
| make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:02 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 636a5d3625 nl80211: Add MLME primitives to support external SME
This patch adds new nl80211 commands to allow user space to request
authentication and association (and also deauthentication and
disassociation). The commands are structured to allow separate
authentication and association steps, i.e., the interface between
kernel and user space is similar to the MLME SAP interface in IEEE
802.11 standard and an user space application takes the role of the
SME.

The patch introduces MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request,
MLME-{,RE}ASSOCIATE.request, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request, and
MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request primitives. The authentication and
association commands request the actual operations in two steps
(assuming the driver supports this; if not, separate authentication
step is skipped; this could end up being a separate "connect"
command).

The initial implementation for mac80211 uses the current
net/mac80211/mlme.c for actual sending and processing of management
frames and the new nl80211 commands will just stop the current state
machine from moving automatically from authentication to association.
Future cleanup may move more of the MLME operations into cfg80211.

The goal of this design is to provide more control of authentication and
association process to user space without having to move the full MLME
implementation. This should be enough to allow IEEE 802.11r FT protocol
and 802.11s SAE authentication to be implemented. Obviously, this will
also bring the extra benefit of not having to use WEXT for association
requests with mac80211. An example implementation of a user space SME
using the new nl80211 commands is available for wpa_supplicant.

This patch is enough to get IEEE 802.11r FT protocol working with
over-the-air mechanism (over-the-DS will need additional MLME
primitives for handling the FT Action frames).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:02 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 6039f6d23f nl80211: Event notifications for MLME events
Add new nl80211 event notifications (and a new multicast group, "mlme")
for informing user space about received and processed Authentication,
(Re)Association Response, Deauthentication, and Disassociation frames in
station and IBSS modes (i.e., MLME SAP interface primitives
MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm, MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm,
MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indicate, and
MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication). The event data is encapsulated as the 802.11
management frame since we already have the frame in that format and it
includes all the needed information.

This is the initial step in providing MLME SAP interface for
authentication and association with nl80211. In other words, kernel code
will act as the MLME and a user space application can control it as the
SME.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:02 -04:00
Jouni Malinen a299542e97 mac80211: Fix reassociation by not clearing previous BSSID
We must not clear the previous BSSID when roaming to another AP within
the same ESS for reassociation to be used properly. It is fine to
clear this when the SSID changes, so let's move the code into
ieee80211_sta_set_ssid().

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:01 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 4b4698c443 mac80211: Fix a typo in assoc vs. reassoc check
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:01 -04:00