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2013-02-04mac80211: mesh power save basicsMarco Porsch
Add routines to - maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode - indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames - track neighbor STAs power modes - buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode - add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons - release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor changes. Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated mesh peering is currently not working when either node is configured to be in power save mode. Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions. For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA pointer is already available. Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations. Track power modes based on received frames. Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer). Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons. Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames. Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status. Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and show large delay spikes and frame losses. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame statusJohannes Berg
When sending authentication/association frames they might take a bit of time to go out because we may have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too short if the beacon interval is relatively large. For drivers that report TX status we can do better. Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it only when the frame status arrives. Since then the frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait 100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted try again right away instead of waiting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-29mac80211: remove IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAILStanislaw Gruszka
This is basically a revert of: commit 5b632fe85ec82e5c43740b52e74c66df50a37db3 Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Date: Mon Dec 3 12:56:33 2012 +0100 mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL We do not need this flag any longer, rt2x00 BAR/BA problem was fixed correctly by wireless-testing commit: commit 84e9e8ebd369679a958200a8baca96aafb2393bb Author: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Date: Thu Jan 17 17:34:32 2013 +0100 rt2x00: Improve TX status handling for BlockAckReq frames Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-11Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.sipsolutions.net/mac80211-nextJohn W. Linville
2012-12-06Merge branch 'for-john' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2012-12-05mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAILStanislaw Gruszka
Commit f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98 "mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by commit be03d4a45c09ee5100d3aaaedd087f19bc20d01 "rt2x00: Don't let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter commit caused yet another problem reported in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22 After long discussion in this thread: http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both mentioned earlier commits. To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98, instead of reverting it, introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before the commit. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> [replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29mac80211: add debugfs file for last ack signalSaravana
Add a debugfs file showing the signal strength of the ack frame that is received for the currently sent tx packet Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-21Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
2012-11-10mac80211: call skb_dequeue/ieee80211_free_txskb instead of __skb_queue_purgeFelix Fietkau
Fixes more wifi status skb leaks, leading to hostapd/wpa_supplicant hangs. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-30mac80211: combine status/drop reportingJohannes Berg
The TX status reporting is done for both the nl80211 report as well as the socket option. The socket option is also reported when an skb is dropped to guarantee that the copy in the IDR tree is freed and status is reported to userspace. However, when a frame is dropped, no nl80211 status is reported. This can cause userspace to stop making progress while waiting for a status notification. Combine the nl80211 and socket option status reporting into a new function and call it in both places -- when the status comes in from the driver and when the skb is dropped. While at it, also simplify the code in the nl80211 portion a bit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17mac80211: track needed RX chains for channel contextsJohannes Berg
On each channel that the device is operating on, it may need to listen using one or more chains depending on the SMPS settings of the interfaces using it. The previous channel context changes completely removed this ability (before, it was available as the SMPS mode). Add per-context tracking of the required static and dynamic RX chains and notify the driver on changes. To achieve this, track the chains and SMPS mode used on each virtual interface and update the channel context whenever this changes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-08mac80211: use ieee80211_free_txskb to fix possible skb leaksFelix Fietkau
A few places free skbs using dev_kfree_skb even though they're called after ieee80211_subif_start_xmit might have cloned it for tracking tx status. Use ieee80211_free_txskb here to prevent skb leaks. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-10mac80211: validate skb->dev in the tx status pathFelix Fietkau
skb->dev might contain a stale reference to a device that was already deleted, and using it unchecked can lead to invalid pointer accesses. Since this is only used for nl80211 tx, iterate over active interfaces to find a match for skb->dev, and discard the tx status if the device is gone. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20mac80211: support P2P Device abstractionJohannes Berg
After cfg80211 got a P2P Device abstraction, add support to mac80211. Whether it really is supported or not will depend on whether or not the driver has support for it, but mac80211 needs to change to be able to support drivers that need a P2P Device. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIsJohannes Berg
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will be able to use the wdev identifier only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-24mac80211: clean up debuggingJohannes Berg
There are a few things that make the logging and debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should be right now: * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both* Kconfig and dynamic configuration * there are still a lot of ifdefs * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the sdata->name is printed in front Clean up everything, introducing new macros and separating out the station MLME debugging into a new Kconfig symbol. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-22mac80211: two small verbose debug cleanupsJohannes Berg
Two instances of CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG should be different, fix them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-06mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channelJohannes Berg
Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of the generic off-channel work concept, replacing it with a simple remain-on-channel list. This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC implementation: * offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued, now we can queue it as well, if needed * in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new queue to handle that case -- I expect that it will later depend on a HW flag The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt TX request while HW roc is active, and this new request has a wait time, we actually schedule a software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the existing offloaded ROC will still be that long. To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed. The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later but for now use a software implementation. Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the offloaded and software-implemented case as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debugJoe Perches
Standardize the debugging to be able to use dynamic_debug. Coalesce formats, align arguments. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-09mac80211: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equalJoe Perches
Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal to add some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse of compare_ether_addr for sorting. Done via cocci script: $ cat compare_ether_addr.cocci @@ expression a,b; @@ - !compare_ether_addr(a, b) + ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - compare_ether_addr(a, b) + !ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0 + ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0 + !ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0 + !ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0 + ether_addr_equal(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !!ether_addr_equal(a, b) + ether_addr_equal(a, b) Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-13mac80211: fix an issue in ieee80211_tx_info count field managementLorenzo Bianconi
I noticed a possible issue in the status count field management of the ieee80211_tx_info data structure. In particular, when the AGGR processing is employed, status.rates[].count is set just for the first frame and not for others belonging to the same burst, leading to wrong statistic data in the mac80211 debug file system. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmpFelix Fietkau
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-27mac80211: clean up asm/unaligned.h inclusionJohannes Berg
Some files implicitly get this via mesh.h which itself doesn't need it, so move the inclusion into the right files. Some other files don't need it at all but include it, so remove it from there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27mac80211: fix a few -Wshadow warningsJohannes Berg
It seems that -Wshadow is no longer default in sparse runs, but let's fix the warnings anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-13mac80211: Make use of ieee80211_is_* functions in tx status pathHelmut Schaa
Use ieee80211_is_data, ieee80211_is_mgmt and ieee80211_is_first_frag in the tx status path. This makes the code easier to read and allows us to remove two local variables: frag and type. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
2011-11-22Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-debugfs.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-rx.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-scan.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
2011-11-21mac80211: Fix endian bug in radiotap header generationHelmut Schaa
I intoduced this bug in commit a2fe81667410723d941a688e1958a49d67ca3346 "mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamically" Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09mac80211: implement wifi TX statusJohannes Berg
Implement the socket wifi TX status error queue reflection in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09mac80211: support client probeJohannes Berg
Support probing clients with null data frames in AP mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09mac80211: add helper to free TX skbJohannes Berg
Drivers that need to drop a frame before it can be transmitted will usually simply free that frame. This is currently fine, but in the future it'll be needed to tell mac80211 about this case, so add a new routine that frees a TX skb. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-31net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modulesPaul Gortmaker
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence of module.h from everywhere. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-14mac80211: Populate radiotap header with MCS info for TX framesHelmut Schaa
mac80211 already filled in the MCS rate info for rx'ed frames but tx'ed frames that are sent to a monitor interface during the status callback lack this information. Add the radiotap fields for MCS info to ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr and populate them when sending tx'ed frames to the monitors. The needed headroom is only extended by one byte since we don't include legacy rate information in the rtap header for HT frames. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamicallyHelmut Schaa
Get rid of the ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr struct and instead build the rtap header dynamically. This makes it easier to extend the rtap header generation in the future. Add ieee80211_tx_radiotap_len to calculate the expected size of the rtap header before generating it. Since we can't check if the rtap header fits into the requested headroom during compile time anymore add a WARN_ON_ONCE. Also move the actual rtap header generation into its own function. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: fix offchannel TX cookie matchingJohannes Berg
When I introduced in-kernel off-channel TX I introduced a bug -- the work can't be canceled again because the code clear the skb pointer. Fix this by keeping track separately of whether TX status has already been reported. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+] Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: optimise station flagsJohannes Berg
The flaglock in struct sta_info has long been something that I wanted to get rid of, this finally does the conversion to atomic bitops. The conversion itself is straight-forward in most places, a few things needed to change a bit since we can no longer use multiple bits at the same time. On x86-64, this is a fairly significant code size reduction: text data bss dec hex 427861 23648 1008 452517 6e7a5 before 425383 23648 976 450007 6ddd7 after Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: implement uAPSDJohannes Berg
Add uAPSD support to mac80211. This is probably not possible with all devices, so advertising it with the cfg80211 flag will be left up to drivers that want it. Due to my previous patches it is now a fairly straight-forward extension. Drivers need to have accurate TX status reporting for the EOSP frame. For drivers that buffer themselves, the provided APIs allow releasing the right number of frames, but then drivers need to set EOSP and more-data themselves. This is documented in more detail in the new code itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: clear more-data bit on filtered framesJohannes Berg
It doesn't seem likely, but maybe possible, that the more-data bit needs to be recomputed due to changes in the queued frames. Clear it for filtered frames to ensure that we never send it incorrectly. It'll be set again as necessary when we retransmit this frame. The more likely case is maybe where the station woke up after the filtered frame in which case more-data should be clear when the frame is transmitted to the station since it is now awake. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: split PS buffers into ACsJohannes Berg
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split the buffers before really adding support for uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will never be non-zero. Since book-keeping is complicated, also change the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a station). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: also expire filtered framesJohannes Berg
mac80211 will expire normal PS-buffered frames, but if the device rejected some frames for a sleeping station, these won't be on the ps_tx_buf queue but on the tx_filtered queue instead; this is done to avoid reordering. However, mac80211 will not expire frames from the filtered queue, let's fix that. Also add a more comments to what all this expiry is doing and how it works. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: unify TIM bit handlingJohannes Berg
Currently, the TIM bit for a given station is set and cleared all over the place. Since the logic to set/clear it will become much more complex when we add uAPSD support, as a first step let's collect the entire logic in one place. This requires a few small adjustments to other places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16mac80211: fix endian issues and comments for BAR failure handlingFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14mac80211: make ieee80211_send_bar available for driversFelix Fietkau
To properly maintain the peer's block ack window, the driver needs to be able to control the new starting sequence number that is sent along with the BlockAckReq frame. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggrFelix Fietkau
Unfortunately failed BAR tx attempts happen more frequently than I expected, and the resulting aggregation teardowns cause performance issues, as the aggregation session does not always get re-established properly. Instead of tearing down the entire aggr session, we can simply store the SSN of the last failed BAR tx attempt, wait for the first successful tx status event, and then send another BAR with the same SSN. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22mac80211: Tear down BA session on BAR tx failureHelmut Schaa
As described at [1] some STAs (i.e. Intel 5100 Windows) can end up correctly BlockAcking incoming frames without delivering them to user space if a AMPDU subframe got lost and we don't flush the receipients reorder buffer with a BlockAckReq. This in turn results in stuck connections. According to 802.11n-2009 it is not necessary to send a BAR to flush the recepients RX reorder buffer but we still do that to be polite. However, assume the following frame exchange: AP -> STA, AMPDU (failed) AP -> STA, BAR (failed) The client in question then ends up in the same situation and won't deliver frames to userspace anymore since we weren't able to flush its reorder buffer. This is not a hypothetical situation but I was able to observe this exact behavior during a stress test between a rt2800pci AP and a Intel 5100 Windows client. In order to work around this issue just tear down the BA session as soon as a BAR failed to be TX'ed. [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/66867 Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-08mac80211: remove offchannel_tx APIJohannes Berg
For iwlwifi, I decided not to use this API since it just increased the complexity for little gain. Since nobody else intends to use it, let's kill it again. If anybody later needs to have it, we can always revive it then. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-28mac80211: allow low level drivers to report packet lossArik Nemtsov
Add API that allows low level drivers to notify mac80211 about TX packet loss. This is useful when there are FW triggers to notify the low level driver about these events. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30mac80211: Minor optimization in tx status handlingHelmut Schaa
ieee80211_tx_status iterates over all tx rates the driver reports back in order to 1) mark tx rates as invalid if the driver cannot have tried that rate 2) find the actually used tx rate for the final retransmission By leaving the for loop when the first invalid rate index is found we can move the rates_idx assignment after the loop and therefore save a few assignments and conditionals. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25mac80211: support direct offchannel TX offloadJohannes Berg
For devices supported by iwlwifi sometimes off-channel transmissions need to be handled by the device completely. To support this mac80211 needs to pass the frame directly to the driver and not through the TX path as the driver needs the frame and channel information at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-23mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save.Vivek Natarajan
There is a race on sending a data frame before the tx completion of nullfunc frame for enabling power save. As the data quickly follows the nullfunc frame, the AP thinks that the station is out of power save and continues to send the frames. Whereas in the station, the nullfunc ack will be processed after the tx completion of data frame and mac80211 goes to powersave. Thus the power save state mismatch between the station and the AP causes some data loss and some applications fail because of that. This patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>