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2008-11-21Move all rtl818x files to a common directory.Larry Finger1-1298/+0
This change improves the maintainability of these drivers. No functionality is changed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-0/+3
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c fs/cifs/connect.c
2008-11-12rtl8187 : support for Sitecom WL-168 0001 v4Bob Jolliffe1-0/+1
the Sitecom 0001 v4 with product id 0x0df6:0028, uses Realtek's RTL8187B and work fine with new 2.6.27 driver. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-12rtl8187: Add Abocom USB IDIvan Kuten1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kuten <ivan.kuten@promwad.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10rtl8187: Reduce channel switch delayLarry Finger1-1/+0
The latest vendor driver (rtl8187B_linux_26.1036.0708.2008) has a 10 msec delay after the call to set a new channel, but not before. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10rtl8187: Remove primitive write delaysLarry Finger1-2/+0
Each of the primary write routines, rtl8187_write_phy(), rtl8225_write_bitbang(), and rtl8225_write_8051() all conclude with an msleep() command. Testing shows that these are not needed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10rtl8187: Remove large delaysLarry Finger1-1/+1
The rtl8187 driver contains 3 sleep statements that are longer than a second. Testing has shown no bad effects when they are removed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control APIJohannes Berg1-9/+9
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control, most drivers don't support that though. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31rtl8187: add short slot handling for 8187BHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski1-4/+41
This change adds short slot handling for 8187B variant of rtl8187 chips. Some things to note about changes done: * Values used are chosen to met 802.11-2007 spec. This raised a question about SIFS value used with 8187L: 0x22 (34) doesn't match any spec value. For now just don't change 8187L, but is something to be looked at. * On 8187B, the location of EIFS register is at the same place as BRSR+1 of struct rtl818x_csr. Unfortunately there is no clean way to accomodate 8187B differences currently, just use address of BRSR+1 and comment about it. The same thing happens for Ack timeout register, that is on CARRIER_SENSE_COUNTER location of 8187L. The eifs and ack timeout values are in units of 4us. All these registers information was gathered from references being the vendor gpl driver and 8180 datasheet, unfortunately there is no information about this on 8187B datasheet. Also the ack timeout value was inspired by the same calculation as done on rt2x00. Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31rtl8187: adapt for deprecated IEEE80211_CONF_SHORT_SLOT_TIME flagHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski1-16/+30
This updates 8187L handling for short slot after "mac80211: fix short slot handling". For 8187B, there was no handling done for short slot timing so nothing done, support for it will come in a following patch. Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31p54/rtl8187: fix up the seqno patchJohannes Berg1-1/+0
Sorry about that, for some reason I didn't notice that I'd left some unused variables in there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: provide sequence numbersJohannes Berg1-14/+4
I've come to think that not providing sequence numbers for the normal STA mode case was a mistake, at least two drivers now had to implement code they wouldn't otherwise need, and I believe at76_usb and adm8211 might be broken. This patch makes mac80211 assign a sequence number to all those frames that need one except beacons. That means that if a driver only implements modes that do not do beaconing it need not worry about the sequence number. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: introduce hw config change flagsJohannes Berg1-1/+2
This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration actually changed, e.g. channel etc. No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are expected to act on this if they want to. Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often we configure something else. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-27net: convert print_mac to %pMJohannes Berg1-3/+2
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for now, no harm done. I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-14rtl8187: Add USB ID for Belkin F5D7050 with RTL8187B chipFlorent Fourcot1-0/+2
The Belkin F5D7050rev5000de (id 050d:705e) has the Realtek RTL8187B chip and works with the 2.6.27 driver. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14rtl8187: add device ID 0bda:8198John W. Linville1-0/+1
Reported by zOOmER.gm@gmail.com to work here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: use nl80211 interface typesJohannes Berg1-4/+4
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need to translate them any more now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modesLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+2
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>
2008-08-22rtl818x: merge tx/rx descriptor flagsHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski1-5/+5
Tx/Rx descriptor flags are common between rtl818x devices, only with additions for newer chips, thus use same flags in the code. Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-18rtl8187: Add USB ID for Netgear WG111V3matthieu Barthélemy1-0/+1
Add the USB ID for a Netgear WG111v3. Signed-off-by: matthieu Barthélemy <bonsouere@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-01rtl8187: Fix lockups due to concurrent access to config routineLarry Finger1-1/+14
Some users of the RTL8187B have experienced difficulties since commit 49292d56352a6ab90d04c3448dd8b6106dfef2d6 that introduced the power management wext hooks. This difficulty has not made much sense until it was realized that it was possible for mac80211 to make a call to the config routine while that routine was already being executed. On this device, it is necessary to loopback the TX when changing channels. Unless this is properly restored, the device will lockup. A mutex now protects the device state, and the private data in several places. The problem was found by Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>, who also suggested this type of fix. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-01Rtl8187 PATCH add usb ID for asus wireless linkAndrea Merello1-0/+2
This patch from Davide Cavalca adds a usb ID for an rtl8187L device. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29rtl8187: Improve wireless statistics for RTL8187BLarry Finger1-30/+48
Wireless statistics produced by the RTL8187B driver are not particularly informative about the strength of the received signal. From the data sheet provided by Realtek, I discovered that certain parts of the RX header should have the information necessary to calculate signal quality and strength. With testing, it became clear that most of these quantities were very jittery - only the AGC correlated with the signals expected from nearby AP's. As a result, the quality and strength are derived from the agc value. The scaling has been determined so that the numbers are close to those obtained by b43 under the same conditions. The results are qualitatively correct. Statistics derived for the RTL8187 have not been changed. The RX header variables have been renamed to match the quantites described in the Realtek data sheet. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29rtl8187: Fix for TX sequence number problemLarry Finger1-0/+15
"mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers" broke rtl8187. This patch makes the same kind of fix that was done for rt2x00. Note that this code will have to be reworked for proper sequence numbers on beacons. In addition, the sequence number has been placed in the hardware state, not the vif state. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14rtl8187: use different ANAPARAM*_OFF values for 8187BHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski1-7/+14
For RTL8187B it seems we need special values too for ANAPARAM*_OFF values (and not use RTL8187 ones). The ANAPARAM*_OFF values used are the stock ones read from the hardware after a cold boot. Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14rtl8187: Fixed section mismatch in rtl8187_dev.cIhar Hrachyshka1-1/+1
When CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n the following error occures on vmlinux linkage: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o 'rtl8187_disconnect' function marked as __devexit isn't compiled with no hotplug support. Added __devexit_p macros to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar.hrachyshka@promwad.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08rtl8187: Change detection of RTL8187B with USB ID of 8187Larry Finger1-34/+45
Some early versions of RTL8187B devices have a USB ID of 0x8187 rather than the 0x8189 of later models. In addition, it appears that these early units also must be programmed with lower power. Previous patches used the Product ID string to detect this situation, but did not address the low power question. This patch uses the hardware version and sets the power accordingly. Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08rtl8187: change rtl8187_dev.c to support RTL8187B (part 2)Hin-Tak Leung1-40/+168
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08rtl8187: change rtl8187_dev.c to support RTL8187B (part 1)Hin-Tak Leung1-29/+234
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14mac80211: remove ieee80211_get_morefragHarvey Harrison1-1/+1
Replaced by the new helper ieee80211_has_morefrags which is more consistent with the intent of the function. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-28/+17
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
2008-05-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-2/+12
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/cpmac.c net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-05-21mac80211: move TX info into skb->cbJohannes Berg1-24/+17
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>
2008-05-21mac80211: use rate index in TX controlJohannes Berg1-7/+3
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers. This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that way in the future. The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-20rtl8187: resource leak in error caseOliver Neukum1-2/+12
This fixes resource leaks in error cases due to urb submission failures. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise unitsBruno Randolf1-5/+5
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>
2008-04-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-0/+3
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2008-04-15rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignmentsHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski1-0/+3
This adds missing priv->vif assignments after "mac80211: don't use interface indices in drivers" change. As rtl8180, rtl8187 also needs priv->vif to be set, as without this an oops can happen in rtl8187_tx function (priv->vif is passed to ieee80211_rts_duration). Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29rtl818x: fix RTS/CTS-less transmitJohannes Berg1-3/+9
This fixes packet transmission of packets without RTS/CTS. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversionJohannes Berg1-26/+56
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k) are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations can be done. Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty much required for travelling. Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to the BSS conf stuff. I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-20rtl818x: fix sparse warningsJohannes Berg1-1/+3
This silences a few sparse warnings. There are two more where I can't follow the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28mac80211: dont use interface indices in driversJohannes Berg1-4/+4
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and contains a variable length driver-use data area. This has two advantages: * removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better for working with network namespaces and performance * allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without having to allocate own lists/hash tables Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28Add rtl8180 wireless driverMichael Wu1-37/+23
This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8180 and rtl8185 PCI wireless cards. Also included are some rtl8187 changes required due to the relationship between that driver and this one. Michael Wu is primarily responsible for the initial driver and rtl8185 support. Andreas Merello provided the additional rtl8180 support. Thanks to Jukka Ruohonen for the donating a rtl8185 card! It was very helpful for the rtl8225z2 code. The Signed-off-by information below is collected from the individual patches submitted to wireless-2.6 before merging this driver upstream. Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28wireless: make drivers include the TSF RX flag where appropriateJohannes Berg1-0/+1
These drivers pass full mactime information to the stack, make them indicate this via the new RX_FLAG_TSFT to get mac80211 to show this information in monitor mode. 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>
2007-12-19rtl8187: Add USB ID for Sitecom WL-168 v1 001Matthias Mueller1-0/+2
Thanks to Matthias Mueller for reporting this device. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-25[PATCH] rtl8187: Allow multicast framesMichael Wu1-9/+11
This patch allows rtl8187 to receive multicast frames if requested. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-18[PATCH] rtl8187: remove NICMAC setting in configure_filters callbackMichael Wu1-4/+0
NICMAC should always be set. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-18[PATCH] rtl8187: Fix more frag bit checking, rts duration calcMichael Wu1-15/+16
The wrong pointer is passed to ieee80211_get_morefrag. Fix this. While we're at it, reorder things so they look better and the rts duration calculation is done with the right length. Thanks to Christoph Hellwig for finding the ieee80211_get_morefrag issue. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[PATCH] rtl8187: Add device ID for HP wireless print kit usb dongleMichael Wu1-0/+2
This adds the device ID for the HP wireless print kit usb dongle. Thanks to Thierry Merle for the patch to the original rtl8187 driver. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[PATCH] mac80211: revamp interface and filter configurationJohannes Berg1-19/+110
Drivers are currently supposed to keep track of monitor interfaces if they allow so-called "hard" monitor, and they are also supposed to keep track of multicast etc. This patch changes that, replaces the set_multicast_list() callback with a new configure_filter() callback that takes filter flags (FIF_*) instead of interface flags (IFF_*). For a driver, this means it should open the filter as much as necessary to get all frames requested by the filter flags. Accordingly, the filter flags are named "positively", e.g. FIF_ALLMULTI. Multicast filtering is a bit special in that drivers that have no multicast address filters need to allow multicast frames through when either the FIF_ALLMULTI flag is set or when the mc_count value is positive. At the same time, drivers are no longer notified about monitor interfaces at all, this means they now need to implement the start() and stop() callbacks and the new change_filter_flags() callback. Also, the start()/stop() ordering changed, start() is now called *before* any add_interface() as it really should be, and stop() after any remove_interface(). The patch also changes the behaviour of setting the bssid to multicast for scanning when IEEE80211_HW_NO_PROBE_FILTERING is set; the IEEE80211_HW_NO_PROBE_FILTERING flag is removed and the filter flag FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC introduced. This is a lot more efficient for hardware like b43 that supports it and other hardware can still set the BSSID to all-ones. Driver modifications by Johannes Berg (b43 & iwlwifi), Michael Wu (rtl8187, adm8211, and p54), Larry Finger (b43legacy), and Ivo van Doorn (rt2x00). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>