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Arik Nemtsov dfe018bf99 mac80211: handle TDLS high-level commands and frames
Register and implement the TDLS cfg80211 callback functions.

Internally prepare and send TDLS management frames. We incorporate
local STA capabilities and supported rates with extra IEs given by
usermode. The resulting packet is either encapsulated in a data frame,
or assembled as an action frame. It is transmitted either directly or
through the AP, as mandated by the TDLS specification.

Declare support for the TDLS external setup wiphy capability. This
tells usermode to handle link setup and discovery on its own, and use the
kernel driver for sending TDLS mgmt packets.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:07 -04:00
Eliad Peller 0c28ec587a cfg80211: add cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() function
Add function to find vendor-specific ie (along with
vendor-specific ie struct definition and P2P OUI values)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19 15:49:11 -04:00
Javier Cardona 2154c81c32 mac80211: Mesh data frames must have the QoS header
Per sec 7.1.3.5 of draft 12.0 of 802.11s, mesh frames indicate the
presence of the mesh control header in their QoS header.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:50 -04:00
Javier Cardona 5ee68e5b39 mac80211: mesh gate implementation
In this implementation, a mesh gate is a root node with a certain bit
set in its RANN flags. The mpath to this root node is marked as a path
to a gate, and added to our list of known gates for this if_mesh. Once a
path discovery process fails, we forward the unresolved frames to a
known gate. Thanks to Luis Rodriguez for refactoring and bug fix help.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-24 13:59:42 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 25d49e4d63 mac80211: update mesh path selection frame format
Make mesh path selection frames Mesh Action category, remove outdated
Mesh Path Selection category and defines, use updated reason codes, add
mesh_action_is_path_sel for readability, and update/correct path
selection IEs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:46:00 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 36c704fded ieee80211: add mesh action codes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:46:00 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 8db098507c mac80211: update mesh peering frame format
This patch updates the mesh peering frames to the format specified in
the recently ratified 802.11s standard. Several changes took place to
make this happen:

	- Change RX path to handle new self-protected frames
	- Add new Peering management IE
	- Remove old Peer Link IE
	- Remove old plink_action field in ieee80211_mgmt header

These changes by themselves would either break peering, or work by
coincidence, so squash them all into this patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:46:00 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 6709a6d96e ieee80211: introduce Self Protected Action codes
802.11s introduces a new action frame category, add action codes as well
as an entry in ieee80211_mgmt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:59 -04:00
Helmut Schaa c1407b6cb2 wireless: Introduce defines for BAR TID_INFO & MULTI_TID fields
While at it also fix the indention of the other IEEE80211_BAR_CTRL_ defines.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
Kalle Valo 856799d582 ieee80211: add few wmm tspec values
These are needed by ath6kl for parsing tspec status from an IE.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-19 16:49:54 -04:00
Johannes Berg 04b7dcf979 wireless: unify QoS control field definitions
Move all that mac80211 has into the generic
ieee80211.h header file and use them. At the
same time move them from mask+shift to just
bits and rename them for consistent names.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-27 15:09:39 -04:00
Eliad Peller 333ba73252 cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
Commit 0a35d36 ("cfg80211: Use capability info to detect mesh beacons")
assumed that probe response with both ESS and IBSS bits cleared
means that the frame was sent by a mesh sta.

However, these capabilities are also being used in the p2p_find phase,
and the mesh-validation broke it.

Rename the WLAN_CAPABILITY_IS_MBSS macro, and verify that mesh ies
exist before assuming this frame was sent by a mesh sta.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-01 14:34:01 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 8f9cb77d6d mac80211: Self-protected management frames are not robust
They may contain encrypted information elements (as AMPE frames do)
but they are not encrypted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11 14:44:48 -04:00
Javier Cardona 0a35d36d6f cfg80211: Use capability info to detect mesh beacons.
Mesh beacons no longer use all-zeroes BSSID.  Beacon frames for MBSS,
infrastructure BSS, or IBSS are differentiated by the Capability
Information field in the Beacon frame.  A mesh STA sets the ESS and IBSS
subfields to 0 in transmitted Beacon or Probe Response management
frames.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11 14:37:48 -04:00
Javier Cardona d3aaec8ab7 mac80211: Drop MESH_PLINK category and use new ANA-approved MESH_ACTION
Note: This breaks compatibility with previous mesh protocol instances.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11 14:37:47 -04:00
Bing Zhao 4dd365fd55 ieee80211: add HT extended capabilities masks
IEEE Std 802.11n, Oct. 29, 2009:
7.3.2.56.5 HT Extended Capabilities field

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-04 16:20:05 -04:00
Bing Zhao 80751e2b8f ieee80211: add IEEE80211_COUNTRY_STRING_LEN definition
and make use of it in wireless drivers

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-09 16:10:56 -05:00
Amitkumar Karwar 8d661f1e46 ieee80211: correct IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK macro
It is defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h. As per IEEE spec.
bit6 to bit15 in block ack parameter represents buffer size.
So the bitmask should be 0xFFC0.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-13 15:46:45 -05:00
Javier Cardona 61ad539459 mac80211: Remove unused third address from mesh address extension header.
The Mesh Control header only includes 0, 1 or 2 addresses. If there is
one address, it should be interpreted as Address 4.  If there are 2,
they are interpreted as Addresses 5 and 6 (Address 4 being the 4th
address in the 802.11 header).

The address extension used to hold up to 3 addresses instead of the current 2.
I'm not sure which draft version changed this, but it is very unlikely that it
will change again given the state of the approval process of this draft.  See
section 7.1.3.6.3 in current draft (8.0).

Also, note that the extra address that I'm removing was not being used, so this
change has no effect on over-the-air frame formats.  But I thought I better
remove it before someone does start using it.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:49:47 -05:00
Javier Cardona c80d545da3 mac80211: Let userspace enable and configure vendor specific path selection.
Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path
selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor
specific alternative.  Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add
information elements to mesh beacons.  This is accordance with the
Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the
802.11s draft.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:46:57 -05:00
Bing Zhao 44316cb1e9 ieee80211: add Parameter Set Count bitmask
WMM IE QoS Info field lower 4 bits: Parameter Set Count

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13 15:23:30 -05:00
Amitkumar Karwar b7e8941b2d cfg80211: add some element IDs in enum ieee80211_eid
1)WLAN_EID_BSS_COEX_2040
2)WLAN_EID_OVERLAP_BSS_SCAN_PARAM
3)WLAN_EID_EXT_CAPABILITY

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08 15:38:45 -05:00
Steve deRosier cfdfa4d3a0 mac80211: Update mesh constants to approved IEEE ANA values
This patch updates IEEE802.11 mesh constants to be consistent with newly
approved values. It modifies some values, as well as adds many new constants
in preparation for updating mesh code to the current 802.11s drafts. ANA
numbers were taken from:
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/09/11-09-0031-12-0000-ana-database-assigned-number-authority.xls

A few notes are in order:
1. This will break backwards compatibility with existing Linux kernels as
over-the-air constants have changed.
2. Some old and obsolete constants have been retained for now as the mesh code
itself hasn't been updated yet to the new 802.11s draft. This was desired to
keep the existing mesh scheme working until it can be updated. Adding the
approved values is the first step in updating the mesh code.
3. Obsolete constants have been clearly marked.
4. All ANA approved 802.11s constants have been added.

Signed-off-by: Steve deRosier <steve@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11 15:04:21 -04:00
Felix Fietkau f79d9bad37 mac80211: add flags for STBC (Space-Time Block Coding)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:21 -04:00
Javier Cardona 97ad9139fd mac80211: Moved mesh action codes to a more visible location
Grouped mesh action codes together with the other action codes in
ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 15:24:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg 098a607091 mac80211: clean up/fix aggregation code
The aggregation code has a number of quirks, like
inventing an unneeded WLAN_BACK_TIMER value and
leaking memory under certain circumstances during
station destruction. Fix these issues by using
the regular aggregation session teardown code and
blocking new aggregation sessions, all before the
station is really destructed.

As a side effect, this gets rid of the long code
block to destroy aggregation safely.

Additionally, rename tid_state_rx which can only
have the values IDLE and OPERATIONAL to
tid_active_rx to make it easier to understand
that there is no bitwise stuff going on on the
RX side -- the TX side remains because it needs
to keep track of the driver and peer states.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:05 -04:00
Andriy Tkachuk d0dd2de0d0 mac80211: Account HT Control field in Data frame hdrlen according to 802.11n-2009
ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.

According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
when both of following are met:

   1. It is QoS data frame.
   2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.

The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
to 0".

Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:11:27 -05:00
Kalle Valo 558a6669d7 ieee80211: add struct ieee80211_hdr_qos
The header can be used to create qos nullfunc frames, for example.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:03 -05:00
Kalle Valo ab13315af9 mac80211: add U-APSD client support
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.

Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.

Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:58 -05:00
Kalle Valo 7044cc565b mac80211: add functions to create PS Poll and Nullfunc templates
Some hardware, for example wl1251 and wl1271, handle the transmission
of power save related frames in hardware, but the driver is responsible
for creating the templates. It's better to create the templates in mac80211,
that way all drivers can benefit from this.

Add two new functions, ieee80211_pspoll_get() and ieee80211_nullfunc_get()
which drivers need to call to get the frame. Drivers are also responsible
for updating the templates after each association.

Also new struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr is added to ieee80211.h to make it
easy to calculate length of the Nullfunc frame.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:51:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg 8e664fb3fd mac80211: split up and insert custom IEs correctly
Currently, we insert all user-specified IEs before the HT
IE for association, and after the HT IE for probe requests.
For association, that's correct only if the user-specified
IEs are RSN only, incorrect in all other cases including
WPA. Change this to split apart the user-specified IEs in
two places for association: before the HT IE (e.g. RSN),
after the HT IE (generally empty right now I think?) and
after WMM (all other vendor-specific IEs). For probes,
split the IEs in different places to be correct according
to the spec.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:54:58 -05:00
John W. Linville ea1e4b8420 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-12-28 15:09:11 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 9da3e06814 mac80211: only bother printing highest data rate on debugfs if its set
IEEE-802.11n spec says the RX highest data rate field does
not specify the highest supported RX data rate if its not set.
Ignore it if not set then. Refer to section 7.3.56.4

Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:02 -05:00
Johannes Berg 0f78231bff mac80211: enable spatial multiplexing powersave
Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the
driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action
frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode.

Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that
just logs the requested mode.

For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only,
and let you toggle the requested mode at any time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:31:16 -05:00
Johannes Berg 9a418af5df mac80211: fix peer HT capabilities
I noticed yesterday, because Jeff had noticed
a speed regression, cf. bug
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2138
that the SM PS settings for peers were wrong.
Instead of overwriting the SM PS settings with
the local bits, we need to keep the remote bits.

The bug was part of the original HT code from
over two years ago, but unfortunately nobody
noticed that it makes no sense -- we shouldn't
be overwriting the peer's setting with our own
but rather keep it intact when masking the peer
capabilities with our own.

While fixing that, I noticed that the masking of
capabilities is completely useless for most of
the bits, so also fix those other bits.

Finally, I also noticed that PSMP_SUPPORT no
longer exists in the final 802.11n version, so
also remove that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:27 -05:00
Samuel Ortiz 67fbb16be6 nl80211: PMKSA caching support
This is an interface to set, delete and flush PMKIDs through nl80211.
Main users would be fullmac devices which firmwares are capable of
generating the RSN IEs for the re-association requests, e.g. iwmc3200wifi.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:05:05 -05:00
Rui Paulo 136cfa2861 mac80211: use a structure to hold the mesh config information element
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:27 -05:00
Rui Paulo 90a5e16992 mac80211: implement RANN processing and forwarding
Process the RANN (Root Annoucement) Frame and try to find the HWMP
root station by sending a PREQ.

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>
2009-11-13 17:43:54 -05:00
Rui Paulo 3491707a07 mac80211: update meshconf IE
This updates the Mesh Configuration IE according to the latest
draft (3.03).
Notable changes include the simplified protocol IDs.

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 15:23:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg 22403def13 mac80211: also drop qos-nullfunc frames silently
We drop nullfunc frames, but not qos-nullfunc frames,
even though those could be used for PS state control
as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Javier Cardona 9e03fdfd05 mac80211: Update mesh config IE to 11s draft 3.02
The mesh config information element has changed significantly since draft 1.08
This patch brings it up to date.

Thanks to Sam Leffler and Rui Paulo for identifying this.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:24 -04:00
Sujith d1eba24846 mac80211: Add a few 802.11n defines for AMPDU parameters
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:13 -04:00
Johannes Berg 6a669e65c5 wireless: define AKM suites
We'll need these values for some drivers using connect API
and for wext compat code, so let's define them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 15:01:50 -04:00
Johannes Berg 8fc0fee092 cfg80211: use key size constants
Instead of hardcoding the key length for validation, use the
constants Zhu Yi recently added and add one for AES_CMAC too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:10 -04:00
Zhu Yi e31a16d6f6 wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211.
Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they
are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers
to be also benefit from these utility functions.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22 14:06:02 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 528769cf1e mac80211: Robust Action frame categories for MFP
IEEE 802.11w/D9.0 introduces a mechanism for Action field Category
values to be used to select which Action frames are Robust. Public and
Vendor-specific categories are marked as not Robust in IEEE 802.11w;
HT will be marked not Robust in IEEE 802.11n. A new Vendor-specific
Protected category is allocated for Robust vendor-specific Action
frames. Another new category, Protected Dual of Action, is introduced
for protecting some existing Public Action frames (e.g., IEEE 802.11y
protected enablement).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11 15:24:07 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 9dfd6ba353 mac80211: Update SA Query transaction id length
IEEE 802.11w/D8.0 changed the length of the SA Query transaction
identifier from 16 to 2 octets.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:15:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg e7ec86f54e mac80211: validate TIM IE length (redux)
The TIM IE must not be shorter than 4 bytes, so verify that
when parsing it and use the proper type. To ease that adjust
struct ieee80211_tim_ie to have a virtual bitmap of size
at least 1.

Also check that the TIM IE is actually present before trying
to parse it!

Because other people may need the function, make it a static
inline in ieee80211.h.

(The original "mac80211: validate TIM IE length" was a minimal fix for
2.6.30.  This purports to be the full, correct fix. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:57:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg 10f644a47b mac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latency
When an application asks for a latency lower than the beacon interval
there's nothing we can do -- we need to stay awake and not have the
AP buffer frames for us. Add code to automatically calculate this
constraint in mac80211 so drivers need not concern themselves with it.

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
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