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2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Support multiple logging targetsSatyam Sharma2-40/+137
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. This patch introduces support for multiple targets, independent of CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC -- this is useful even in the default case and (including the infrastructure introduced in previous patches) doesn't really add too many bytes to module text. All the complexity (and size) comes with the dynamic reconfigurability / userspace interface patch, and so it's plausible users may want to keep this enabled but that disabled (say to avoid a dependency on CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS too). Also update documentation to mention the use of ";" separator to specify multiple logging targets in the boot/module option string. Brief overview: We maintain a target_list (and corresponding lock). Get rid of the static "default_target" and introduce allocation and release functions for our netconsole_target objects (but keeping sure to preserve previous behaviour such as default values). During init_netconsole(), ";" is used as the separator to identify multiple target specifications in the boot/module option string. The target specifications are parsed and netpolls setup. During exit, the target_list is torn down and all items released. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifierSatyam Sharma1-0/+32
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. To update fields of underlying netpoll structure at runtime on corresponding NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME notifications. ioctl(SIOCSIFHWADDR or SIOCSIFNAME) could be used to change the hardware/MAC address or name of the local interface that our netpoll is attached to. Whenever this happens, netdev notifier chain is called out with the NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME event message. We respond to that and update the local_mac or dev_name field of the struct netpoll. This makes sense anyway, but is especially required for dynamic netconsole because the netpoll structure's internal members become user visible files when either sysfs or configfs are used. So this helps us to keep up with the MAC address/name changes and keep values in struct netpoll uptodate. [ Note that ioctl(SIOCSIFADDR) to change IP address of interface at runtime is not handled (to update local_ip of netpoll) on purpose -- some setups may set the local_ip to a private address, not necessary the actual IP address of the sender host, as presently allowed. ] Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_targetSatyam Sharma1-11/+25
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. Introduce a wrapper structure over netpoll to represent logging targets configured in netconsole. This will get extended with other members in further patches. This is done independent of the (to-be-introduced) NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC config option so that we're able to drastically cut down on the #ifdef complexity of final netconsole.c. Also, struct netconsole_target would be required for multiple targets support also, and not just dynamic reconfigurability. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentationSatyam Sharma1-0/+25
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. Add some useful general-purpose tips. Also suggest solution for the frequent problem of console loglevel set too low numerically (i.e. for high priority messages only) on the sender. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Use netif_running() in write_msg()Satyam Sharma1-9/+9
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. Avoid unnecessarily disabling interrupts and calling netpoll_send_udp() if the corresponding local interface is not up. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logicSatyam Sharma1-13/+14
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. Presently, boot/module parameters are set up quite differently for the case of built-in netconsole (__setup() -> obsolete_checksetup() -> netpoll_parse_options() -> strlen(config) == 0 in init_netconsole()) vs modular netconsole (module_param_string() -> string copied to the config variable -> strlen(config) != 0 init_netconsole() -> netpoll_parse_options()). This patch makes both of them similar by doing exactly the equivalent of a module_param_string() in option_setup() also -- just copying the param string passed from the kernel command line into "config" variable. So, strlen(config) != 0 in both cases, and netpoll_parse_options() is always called from init_netconsole(), thus making the setup logic for both cases similar. Now, option_setup() is only ever called / used for the built-in case, so we put it inside a #ifndef MODULE, otherwise gcc will complain about option_setup() being "defined but not used". Also, the "configured" variable is redundant with this patch and hence removed. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Remove bogus checkSatyam Sharma1-3/+0
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. The (!np.dev) check in write_msg() is bogus (always false), because: np.dev is set by netpoll_setup(), which is called by init_netconsole() before register_console(), so write_msg() cannot be triggered unless netpoll_setup() successfully set np.dev. Also np.dev cannot go away from under us, because netpoll_setup() grabs us reference on it. So let's remove the bogus check. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Cleanups, codingstyle, prettyficationSatyam Sharma1-28/+27
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. (1) Remove unwanted headers. (2) Mark __init and __exit as appropriate. (3) Various trivial codingstyle and prettification stuff. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPV4] fib_trie: macro cleanupStephen Hemminger1-7/+11
This patch converts the messy macro for MASK_PFX to inline function and expands TKEY_GET_MASK in the one place it is used. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPV4] fib_trie: cleanupStephen Hemminger1-32/+36
Try this out: * replace macro's with inlines * get rid of places doing multiple evaluations of NODE_PARENT [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rcu_dereference wants an lval] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Update comment about highest_sack validityIlpo Järvinen1-1/+2
This stale info came from the original idea, which proved to be unnecessarily complex, sacked_out > 0 is easy to do and that when it's going to be needed anyway (it _can_ be valid also when sacked_out == 0 but there's not going to be a guarantee about it for now). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Move sack_ok access to obviously named funcs & cleanupIlpo Järvinen6-42/+80
Previously code had IsReno/IsFack defined as macros that were local to tcp_input.c though sack_ok field has user elsewhere too for the same purpose. This changes them to static inlines as preferred according the current coding style and unifies the access to sack_ok across multiple files. Magic bitops of sack_ok for FACK and DSACK are also abstracted to functions with appropriate names. Note: - One sack_ok = 1 remains but that's self explanary, i.e., it enables sack - Couple of !IsReno cases are changed to tcp_is_sack - There were no users for IsDSack => I dropped it Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Don't panic if S+L skb is detectedIlpo Järvinen1-2/+2
BUG_ON is an overkill. In fact, I was mislead by BUG_TRAP severity (equals to WARN_ON) which is much lower than BUG_ON's (that panics). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Reduce sacked_out with reno when purging write_queueIlpo Järvinen2-10/+8
Previously TCP had a transitional state during which reno counted segments that are already below the current window into sacked_out, which is now prevented. In addition, re-try now the unconditional S+L skb catching. This approach conservatively calls just remove_sack and leaves reset_sack() calls alone. The best solution to the whole problem would be to first calculate the new sacked_out fully (this patch does not move reno_sack_reset calls from original sites and thus does not implement this). However, that would require very invasive change to fastretrans_alert (perhaps even slicing it to two halves). Alternatively, all callers of tcp_packets_in_flight (i.e., users that depend on sacked_out) should be postponed until the new sacked_out has been calculated but it isn't any simpler alternative. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Keep state in Disorder also if only lost_out > 0Ilpo Järvinen1-1/+1
This happens rather infrequently and is only possible during FRTO. We must not allow TCP to slip to Open state because tcp_fastretrans_alert might then not be called on it's time when FRTO has exited. This become a problem when left_out got removed and was replaced by just sacked_out. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Restore over-zealous tcp_sync_left_out-like removalsIlpo Järvinen1-0/+4
tcp_verify_left_out is useful for verifying S+L condition, so add it back to couple of places in where the code was not calling to tcp_sync_left_out but used own ad-hoc solution (before the tcp_sync_left_out got removed). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Left out sync->verify (the new meaning of it) & definifyIlpo Järvinen3-16/+15
Left_out was dropped a while ago, thus leaving verifying consistency of the "left out" as only task for the function in question. Thus make it's name more appropriate. In addition, it is intentionally converted to #define instead of static inline because the location of the invariant failure is the most important thing to have if this ever triggers. I think it would have been helpful e.g. in this case where the location of the failure point had to be based on some quesswork: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/464 ...Luckily the guesswork seems to have proved to be correct. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Add tcp_left_out(tp) "back" to get cleaner looking linesIlpo Järvinen2-5/+8
tp->left_out got removed but nothing came to replace it back then (users just did addition by themselves), so add function for users now. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Tighten tcp_sock's belt, drop left_outIlpo Järvinen5-22/+7
It is easily calculable when needed and user are not that many after all. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Remove num_acked>0 checks from cong.ctrl mods pkts_ackedIlpo Järvinen2-2/+2
There is no need for such check in pkts_acked because the callback is not invoked unless at least one segment got fully ACKed (i.e., the snd_una moved past skb's end_seq) by the cumulative ACK's snd_una advancement. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Add tcp_dec_pcount_approx int variantIlpo Järvinen2-12/+11
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Move code from tcp_ecn.h to tcp*.c and tcp.h & remove itIlpo Järvinen5-132/+118
No other users exist for tcp_ecn.h. Very few things remain in tcp.h, for most TCP ECN functions callers reside within a single .c file and can be placed there. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Access to highest_sack obsoletes forward_cnt_hintIlpo Järvinen2-15/+9
In addition, added a reference about the purpose of the loop. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP] FRTO: remove unnecessary fackets/sacked_out recountingIlpo Järvinen1-16/+7
F-RTO does not touch SACKED_ACKED bits at all, so there is no need to recount them in tcp_enter_frto_loss. After removal of the else branch, nested ifs can be combined. This must also reset sacked_out when SACK is not in use as TCP could have received some duplicate ACKs prior RTO. To achieve that in a sane manner, tcp_reset_reno_sack was re-placed by the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Move Reno SACKed_out counter functions earlierIlpo Järvinen1-51/+47
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Extract DSACK detection code from tcp_sacktag_write_queue().David S. Miller1-20/+36
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Rexmit hint must be cleared instead of setting itIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
Stupid error from my side. Even though now that I noticed this, I hoped it would have been an optimization but no, the counter hint is then incorrect. Thus clearing is necessary for now (I still suspect though that this path is never executed). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Extracted rexmit hint clearing from the LOST marking codeIlpo Järvinen1-15/+16
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP]: Add highest_sack seqno, points to globally highest SACKIlpo Järvinen2-1/+9
It is guaranteed to be valid only when !tp->sacked_out. In most cases this seqno is available in the last ACK but there is no guarantee for that. The new fast recovery loss marking algorithm needs this as entry point. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NEIGH]: Netlink notificationsThomas Graf1-20/+13
Currently neighbour event notifications are limited to update notifications and only sent if the ARP daemon is enabled. This patch extends the existing notification code by also reporting neighbours being removed due to gc or administratively and removes the dependency on the ARP daemon. This allows to keep track of neighbour states without periodically fetching the complete neighbour table. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NEIGH]: Combine neighbour cleanup and releaseThomas Graf1-14/+13
Introduces neigh_cleanup_and_release() to be used after a neighbour has been removed from its neighbour table. Serves as preparation to add event notifications. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MYRI10GE]: Use LRO.Andrew Gallatin2-1/+109
Singed off by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[EHEA]: Use LRO.Jan-Bernd Themann4-7/+100
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP trafficJan-Bernd Themann4-0/+786
This patch provides generic Large Receive Offload (LRO) functionality for IPv4/TCP traffic. LRO combines received tcp packets to a single larger tcp packet and passes them then to the network stack in order to increase performance (throughput). The interface supports two modes: Drivers can either pass SKBs or fragment lists to the LRO engine. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.Pavel Emelyanov4-0/+496
Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet devices interconnected with each other. Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but it can be used as is as well. The newlink callback is organized that way to make it easy to create the peer device in the separate namespace when we have them in kernel. This implementation uses another interface - the RTM_NRELINK message introduced by Patric. Bug fixes from Daniel Lezcano. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[RTNETLINK]: Introduce generic rtnl_create_link().Pavel Emelianov2-30/+57
This routine gets the parsed rtnl attributes and creates a new link with generic info (IFLA_LINKINFO policy). Its intention is to help the drivers, that need to create several links at once (like VETH). This is nothing but a copy-paste-ed part of rtnl_newlink() function that is responsible for creation of new device. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.Stephen Hemminger91-2375/+1758
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[WIRELESS] radiotap parser: accept all other fieldsJohannes Berg1-1/+5
This makes the radiotap parser accept all other fields that are currently defined. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: Add SIOCGIWTXPOWER routineLarry Finger1-1/+15
The wireless extensions ioctl's implemented in mac80211 do not include SIOCGIWTXPOWER. This patch adds the necessary code. Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[WIRELESS]: Use type safe netlink interfaceThomas Graf1-14/+16
Makes use of the type safe netlink interface and adds a warning if the message is too big for NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE to help debug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: fix add_interface monitor mode behaviourJohannes Berg1-1/+4
This makes it behave the same whether we have monitor during operation or not. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: Improve sanity checks on injected packetsAndy Green1-20/+28
Michael Wu noticed that the skb length checking is not taken care of enough when a packet is presented on the Monitor interface for injection. This patch improves the sanity checking and removes fake offsets placed into the skb network and transport header. Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: Add get_unaligned to ieee80211_get_radiotap_lenAndy Green1-1/+2
ieee80211_get_radiotap_len() tries to dereference radiotap length without taking care that it is completely unaligned and get_unaligned() is required. Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: use more GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMICMichael Wu1-5/+5
This patch replaces atomic allocations with regular ones where possible. Merged with "revert some GFP_ATOMIC -> GFP_KERNEL changes" from Michael Wu: > Some of the allocations made with GFP_ATOMIC really were necessary. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: implement ERP info change notificationsDaniel Drake5-10/+51
zd1211rw and bcm43xx are interested in being notified when ERP IE conditions change, so that they can reprogram a register which affects how control frames are transmitted. This patch adds an interface similar to the one that can be found in softmac. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: improved short preamble handlingDaniel Drake8-30/+88
Similarly to CTS protection, whether short preambles are used for 802.11b transmissions should be a per-subif setting, not device global. For STAs, this patch makes short preamble handling automatic based on the ERP IE. For APs, hostapd still uses the prism ioctls, but the write ioctl has been restricted to AP-only subifs. ieee80211_txrx_data.short_preamble (an unused field) was removed. Unfortunately, some API changes were required for the following functions: - ieee80211_generic_frame_duration - ieee80211_rts_duration - ieee80211_ctstoself_duration - ieee80211_rts_get - ieee80211_ctstoself_get Affected drivers were updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: Add LONG_RETRY flag to ieee80211_tx_controlIvo van Doorn2-1/+8
mac80211 informs the driver what the short and long retry values are through set_retry_limit(), but when packets are being transmitted it did not inform the driver which of the 2 retry limits should actually be used. Instead it sends the actual value, but for drivers that can only set the retry limit and the register and in the descriptor need to indicate which of the limits should be used this is not really useful. This patch will add a IEEE80211_TXCTL_LONG_RETRY_LIMIT flag to the ieee80211_tx_control structure. By default the short retry limit should be used but if the flag is set the long retry should be used. This does not prevent the driver to ignore the request for "no retry" packets, but at least those will be send out with the short retry limit. But there is no perfect cure for this problem.. :( Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: STA reassociation improvementsDaniel Drake2-2/+17
My cheapy D-Link AP behaves strangely w.r.t reassociations. The following sequence of commands causes me to lose association and to be unable to regain it: ifconfig eth8 down ifconfig eth8 up iwconfig eth8 essid <x> This is because mac80211 tries to reassociate, rather than just associate. My AP replies with an association response (not a reassociation response...) denying the association with code 12: "Association denied due to reason outside the scope of this standard" mac80211 tries this reassociation another 4 times or so before finally giving up. I see 2 problems here: 1. bringing the interface down and up again should be resetting interface state i.e. after the interface is brought down, it should have no memory of if or where it was previously associated 2. after the first reassociation fails, mac80211 should fall back to standard association for the next attempt Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: improve locking of sta_info related structuresMichael Wu8-136/+109
The sta_info code has some awkward locking which prevents some driver callbacks from being allowed to sleep. This patch makes the locking more focused so code that calls driver callbacks are allowed to sleep. It also converts sta_lock to a rwlock. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: introduce util.cJohannes Berg4-447/+472
Introduce a new file util.c and move a whole bunch of functions into it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>