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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-03-01 17:02:30 -0500 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-03-01 17:03:27 -0500 |
commit | d67703fcede6696667218d29f86b4ee6ae618de6 (patch) | |
tree | a099693d077e646848b8d9a1a5b6feae79045621 /Documentation | |
parent | 4ec620700cda720ac7480ce92e8795d735ff1502 (diff) | |
parent | 50ee738d7271fe825e4024cdfa5c5301a871e2c2 (diff) | |
download | linux-d67703fcede6696667218d29f86b4ee6ae618de6.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2016-02-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
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Here's another round of updates for -next:
* big A-MSDU RX performance improvement (avoid linearize of paged RX)
* rfkill changes: cleanups, documentation, platform properties
* basic PBSS support in cfg80211
* MU-MIMO action frame processing support
* BlockAck reordering & duplicate detection offload support
* various cleanups & little fixes
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill | 29 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rfkill.txt | 2 |
5 files changed, 56 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill deleted file mode 100644 index ff60ad9eca4c..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support - -For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. - -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state -Date: 09-Jul-2007 -KernelVersion v2.6.22 -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org -Description: Current state of the transmitter. - This file is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in 2014, - because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block' - state of the rfkill driver. -Values: A numeric value. - 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED - transmitter is turned off by software - 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED - transmitter is (potentially) active - 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED - transmitter is forced off by something outside of - the driver's control. - -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim -Date: 09-Jul-2007 -KernelVersion v2.6.22 -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org -Description: This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to - claim just control over a single rfkill instance. - This file is scheduled to be removed in 2012. -Values: 0: Kernel handles events diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ce6231f20b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support + +For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: This file was deprecated because there no longer was a way to + claim just control over a single rfkill instance. + This file was scheduled to be removed in 2012, and was removed + in 2016. +Values: 0: Kernel handles events diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill index 097f522c33bb..e1ba4a104753 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. -For the deprecated /sys/class/rfkill/*/state and -/sys/class/rfkill/*/claim knobs of this interface look in -Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill. +For the deprecated /sys/class/rfkill/*/claim knobs of this interface look in +Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill. What: /sys/class/rfkill Date: 09-Jul-2007 @@ -42,6 +41,28 @@ Values: A numeric value. 1: true +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Current state of the transmitter. + This file was scheduled to be removed in 2014, but due to its + large number of users it will be sticking around for a bit + longer. Despite it being marked as stabe, the newer "hard" and + "soft" interfaces should be preffered, since it is not possible + to express the 'soft and hard block' state of the rfkill driver + through this interface. There will likely be another attempt to + remove it in the future. +Values: A numeric value. + 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED + transmitter is turned off by software + 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED + transmitter is (potentially) active + 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED + transmitter is forced off by something outside of + the driver's control. + + What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/hard Date: 12-March-2010 KernelVersion v2.6.34 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt b/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt index 3a930072b161..ec8f934c2eb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt @@ -28,6 +28,23 @@ radiotap headers and used to control injection: IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NOACK: frame should be sent without waiting for an ACK even if it is a unicast frame + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE + + legacy rate for the transmission (only for devices without own rate control) + + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS + + HT rate for the transmission (only for devices without own rate control). + Also some flags are parsed + + IEEE80211_TX_RC_SHORT_GI: use short guard interval + IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH: send in HT40 mode + + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES + + number of retries when either IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE or + IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS was used + The injection code can also skip all other currently defined radiotap fields facilitating replay of captured radiotap headers directly. diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index 2ee6ef9a6554..1f0c27049340 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ rfkill drivers that control devices that can be hard-blocked unless they also assign the poll_hw_block() callback (then the rfkill core will poll the device). Don't do this unless you cannot get the event in any other way. +RFKill provides per-switch LED triggers, which can be used to drive LEDs +according to the switch state (LED_FULL when blocked, LED_OFF otherwise). 5. Userspace support |