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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2010-05-05 15:25:02 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-05-07 14:55:50 -0400
commitf444de05d20e27cdd960c13fcbcfca3099f03143 (patch)
treea7fbef60420d88dda5840e06094be21ee3eb1dc0 /net/wireless/core.h
parentac8dd506e40ee2c7fcc61654a44c32555a0a8d6c (diff)
cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling
Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid things like setting up an AP on a certain channel, then adding another virtual interface and making that associate on another channel -- this will make the beaconing to move channel but obviously without the necessary IEs data update. In order to improve this situation, first make the configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need that in the future anyway. There's one userland API change and one API addition. The API change is that now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface index rather than only wiphy index in order to take effect for that interface -- luckily all current users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the old setting is preserved, but monitors are always slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees. The second userland API change is the introduction of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that hostapd should use going forward to make it easier to understand what's going on (it can automatically detect a kernel with this command). Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers are affected by this change because they only allow a single virtual interface. mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the channel settings are per interface now, and needs to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation, which is another important part of this patch. One of the immediate benefits is that you can now start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already has a connection on another virtual interface, as long as you specify the same channel. Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an improvement -- not a complete fix): * different HT/no-HT modes currently you could start an HT AP and then connect to a non-HT network on the same channel which would configure the hardware for no HT; that can be fixed fairly easily * CSA An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface might indicate switching channels, and in that case we would follow it, regardless of how many other interfaces are operating; this requires more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/core.h')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.h12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index b2234b436ea..ae930acf75e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -70,9 +70,6 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device {
struct work_struct conn_work;
struct work_struct event_work;
- /* current channel */
- struct ieee80211_channel *channel;
-
/* must be last because of the way we do wiphy_priv(),
* and it should at least be aligned to NETDEV_ALIGN */
struct wiphy wiphy __attribute__((__aligned__(NETDEV_ALIGN)));
@@ -388,14 +385,11 @@ int cfg80211_change_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
void cfg80211_process_rdev_events(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev);
struct ieee80211_channel *
-rdev_fixed_channel(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
- struct wireless_dev *for_wdev);
-struct ieee80211_channel *
rdev_freq_to_chan(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
int freq, enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type);
-int rdev_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
- struct wireless_dev *for_wdev,
- int freq, enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type);
+int cfg80211_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
+ struct wireless_dev *wdev, int freq,
+ enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type);
u16 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate(struct rate_info *rate);