History log of /net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
Revision Date Author Comments
960d01acf62747d6518694f92be5b06f67473833 09-Sep-2014 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: add WMM traffic stream API

Add nl80211 and driver API to validate, add and delete traffic
streams with appropriate settings.

The API calls for userspace doing the action frame handshake
with the peer, and then allows only to set up the parameters
in the driver. To avoid setting up a session only to tear it
down again, the validate API is provided, but the real usage
later can still fail so userspace must be prepared for that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
31fa97c5defca3895dc6c823096d7ba59df76125 11-Jun-2014 Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> cfg80211: pass TDLS initiator in tdls_mgmt operations

The TDLS initiator is set once during link setup. If determines the
address ordering in the link identifier IE.

Fix dependent drivers - mwifiex and mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
b7ffbd7ef6751f6cde73082346e365738daf00d2 04-Jun-2014 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility

Currently, cfg80211 tries to implement ethtool, but that doesn't
really scale well, with all the different operations. Make the
lower-level driver responsible for it, which currently only has
an effect on mac80211. It will similarly not scale well at that
level though, since mac80211 also has many drivers.

To cleanly implement this in mac80211, introduce a new file and
move some code to appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
7406353d43c8e2faf478721e87aeb6f2f9685de0 19-May-2014 Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> cfg80211: implement cfg80211_get_station cfg80211 API

Implement and export the new cfg80211_get_station() API.
This utility can be used by other kernel modules to obtain
detailed information about a given wireless station.

It will be in particular useful to batman-adv which will
implement a wireless rate based metric.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 28-Apr-2014 Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Dynamic channel bandwidth changes in AP mode

This extends NL80211_CMD_SET_CHANNEL to allow dynamic channel bandwidth
changes in AP mode (including P2P GO) during a lifetime of the BSS. This
can be used to implement, e.g., HT 20/40 MHz co-existence rules on the
2.4 GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
df942e7ba70cd0a7aa9e0432b8a6a328de2c5574 20-Feb-2014 Sunil Dutt Undekari <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Pass TDLS peer capability information in tdls_mgmt

While framing the TDLS Setup Confirmation frame, the driver needs to
know if the TDLS peer is VHT/HT/WMM capable and thus shall construct
the VHT/HT operation / WMM parameter elements accordingly. Supplicant
determines if the TDLS peer is VHT/HT/WMM capable based on the
presence of the respective IEs in the received TDLS Setup Response frame.

The host driver should not need to parse the received TDLS Response
frame and thus, should be able to rely on the supplicant to indicate
the capability of the peer through additional flags while transmitting
the TDLS Setup Confirmation frame through tdls_mgmt operations.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Dutt Undekari <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
fa9ffc745610f31c6bc136d5a6a1782e00870e72 17-Dec-2013 Kyeyoon Park <kyeyoonp@qca.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Add support for QoS mapping

This allows QoS mapping from external networks to be implemented as
defined in IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 10.24.9. APs can use this to advertise
DSCP ranges and exceptions for mapping frames to a specific UP over
Wi-Fi.

The payload of the QoS Map Set element (IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 8.4.2.97)
is sent to the driver through the new NL80211_ATTR_QOS_MAP attribute to
configure the local behavior either on the AP (based on local
configuration) or on a station (based on information received from the
AP).

Signed-off-by: Kyeyoon Park <kyeyoonp@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
b176e629402f41f2b984d3aa842ddae23ed5562e 18-Nov-2013 Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com> cfg80211: aggregate mgmt_tx parameters into a struct

Change cfg80211 and mac80211 to use cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params
struct to aggregate parameters for mgmt_tx functions.
This makes the functions' signatures less clumsy and allows
less painful parameters extension.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
[fix all other drivers]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
fc73f11f5fa230f8c687d51b0fddb00433092ce0 31-Jul-2013 David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com> cfg80211: add wdev to testmode cmd

To allow drivers to implement per-interface testmode operations
more easily, pass a wdev pointer if any identification for one
was given from userspace. Clean up the code a bit while at it.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
16ef1fe272332b2f7fd99236017b891db48d9cd6 11-Jul-2013 Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de> nl80211/cfg80211: add channel switch command

To allow channel switch announcements within beacons, add
the channel switch command to nl80211/cfg80211. This is
implementation is intended for AP and (later) IBSS mode.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914 18-Apr-2013 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space

Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
8125696991194aacb1173b6e8196d19098b44e17 28-Feb-2013 Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> cfg80211/mac80211: disconnect on suspend

If possible that after suspend, cfg80211 will receive request to
disconnect what require action on interface that was removed during
suspend.

Problem can manifest itself by various warnings similar to below one:

WARNING: at net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:12 ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211]()
wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x4
Call Trace:
[<c043e0b3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40
[<f83707c9>] ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211]
[<f83a660a>] ieee80211_recalc_ps_vif+0x2a/0x30 [mac80211]
[<f83a6706>] ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xf6/0x500 [mac80211]
[<f83a9441>] ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x1f1/0x280 [mac80211]
[<f8381b36>] ieee80211_deauth+0x16/0x20 [mac80211]
[<f8261e70>] cfg80211_mlme_down+0x70/0xc0 [cfg80211]
[<f8264de1>] __cfg80211_disconnect+0x1b1/0x1d0 [cfg80211]

To fix the problem disconnect from any associated network before
suspend. User space is responsible to establish connection again
after resume. This basically need to be done by user space anyway,
because associated stations can go away during suspend (for example
NetworkManager disconnects on suspend and connect on resume by default).

Patch also handle situation when driver refuse to suspend with wowlan
configured and try to suspend again without it.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
355199e02b831fd4f652c34d6c7673d973da1369 27-Feb-2013 Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Extend support for IEEE 802.11r Fast BSS Transition

Add NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES to support update of FT IEs to the WLAN
driver and NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT to send FT events from the WLAN driver.
This will carry the target AP's MAC address along with the relevant
Information Elements. This event is used to report received FT IEs
(MDIE, FTIE, RSN IE, TIE, RICIE). These changes allow FT to be supported
with drivers that use an internal SME instead of user space option (like
FT implementation in wpa_supplicant with mac80211-based drivers).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
77765eaf5cfb6b8dd98ec8b54b411d74ff6095f1 18-Jan-2013 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> cfg80211/nl80211: add API for MAC address ACLs

Add API to enable drivers to implement MAC address based
access control in AP/P2P GO mode. Capable drivers advertise
this capability by setting the maximum number of MAC
addresses in such a list in wiphy->max_acl_mac_addrs.

An initial ACL may be given to the NL80211_CMD_START_AP
command and/or changed later with NL80211_CMD_SET_MAC_ACL.

Black- and whitelists are supported, but not simultaneously.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
[rewrite commit log, many cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
683b6d3b31a51956ea540df00abb0b78894924c1 08-Nov-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: pass a channel definition struct

Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type
to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel
definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just
the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this
will change.

Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so
that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the
new structure all the time, which will change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
42d97a599eb6b2aab3a401b3e5799a399d6c7652 08-Nov-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type

As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
c8442118ad9cd05cfe3b993f058e70ab25b1009a 24-Oct-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: allow per interface TX power setting

The TX power setting is currently per wiphy (hardware
device) but with multi-channel capabilities that doesn't
make much sense any more.

Allow drivers (and mac80211) to advertise support for
per-interface TX power configuration. When the TX power
is configured for the wiphy, the wdev will be NULL and
the driver can still handle that, but when a wdev is
given the TX power can be set only for that wdev now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
eeb126e9ee5d3b14913863fdd7d88fdbf158318f 23-Oct-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> cfg80211: add tracing for P2P Device start/stop

These were missed due to the tracing work having
started on a kernel that didn't have P2P Device
yet, implement them now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
14e8a3c47e808772a5ba8118ef1f9a8d604dbbe5 31-Jul-2012 Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com> cfg80211: add tracing to rdev-ops

Add tracing to make debugging cfg80211/mac80211
(or full-mac driver) interaction easier.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
[add a cast to int to sizeof() to avoid warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
e35e4d28b687d4e849573419fdcf90f1cce2a14c 27-Jun-2012 Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com> cfg80211: add wrappers for registered_device_ops

This will allow adding central tracing like in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>