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authorJohn W. Linville2010-08-25 20:51:42 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville2010-08-25 20:51:42 +0200
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h179
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h60
2 files changed, 194 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 2fd06c60ffbb..f2740537b5d6 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -25,6 +25,43 @@
#include <linux/wireless.h>
+/**
+ * DOC: Introduction
+ *
+ * cfg80211 is the configuration API for 802.11 devices in Linux. It bridges
+ * userspace and drivers, and offers some utility functionality associated
+ * with 802.11. cfg80211 must, directly or indirectly via mac80211, be used
+ * by all modern wireless drivers in Linux, so that they offer a consistent
+ * API through nl80211. For backward compatibility, cfg80211 also offers
+ * wireless extensions to userspace, but hides them from drivers completely.
+ *
+ * Additionally, cfg80211 contains code to help enforce regulatory spectrum
+ * use restrictions.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * DOC: Device registration
+ *
+ * In order for a driver to use cfg80211, it must register the hardware device
+ * with cfg80211. This happens through a number of hardware capability structs
+ * described below.
+ *
+ * The fundamental structure for each device is the 'wiphy', of which each
+ * instance describes a physical wireless device connected to the system. Each
+ * such wiphy can have zero, one, or many virtual interfaces associated with
+ * it, which need to be identified as such by pointing the network interface's
+ * @ieee80211_ptr pointer to a &struct wireless_dev which further describes
+ * the wireless part of the interface, normally this struct is embedded in the
+ * network interface's private data area. Drivers can optionally allow creating
+ * or destroying virtual interfaces on the fly, but without at least one or the
+ * ability to create some the wireless device isn't useful.
+ *
+ * Each wiphy structure contains device capability information, and also has
+ * a pointer to the various operations the driver offers. The definitions and
+ * structures here describe these capabilities in detail.
+ */
+
/*
* wireless hardware capability structures
*/
@@ -205,6 +242,21 @@ struct ieee80211_supported_band {
*/
/**
+ * DOC: Actions and configuration
+ *
+ * Each wireless device and each virtual interface offer a set of configuration
+ * operations and other actions that are invoked by userspace. Each of these
+ * actions is described in the operations structure, and the parameters these
+ * operations use are described separately.
+ *
+ * Additionally, some operations are asynchronous and expect to get status
+ * information via some functions that drivers need to call.
+ *
+ * Scanning and BSS list handling with its associated functionality is described
+ * in a separate chapter.
+ */
+
+/**
* struct vif_params - describes virtual interface parameters
* @mesh_id: mesh ID to use
* @mesh_id_len: length of the mesh ID
@@ -570,8 +622,28 @@ struct ieee80211_txq_params {
/* from net/wireless.h */
struct wiphy;
-/* from net/ieee80211.h */
-struct ieee80211_channel;
+/**
+ * DOC: Scanning and BSS list handling
+ *
+ * The scanning process itself is fairly simple, but cfg80211 offers quite
+ * a bit of helper functionality. To start a scan, the scan operation will
+ * be invoked with a scan definition. This scan definition contains the
+ * channels to scan, and the SSIDs to send probe requests for (including the
+ * wildcard, if desired). A passive scan is indicated by having no SSIDs to
+ * probe. Additionally, a scan request may contain extra information elements
+ * that should be added to the probe request. The IEs are guaranteed to be
+ * well-formed, and will not exceed the maximum length the driver advertised
+ * in the wiphy structure.
+ *
+ * When scanning finds a BSS, cfg80211 needs to be notified of that, because
+ * it is responsible for maintaining the BSS list; the driver should not
+ * maintain a list itself. For this notification, various functions exist.
+ *
+ * Since drivers do not maintain a BSS list, there are also a number of
+ * functions to search for a BSS and obtain information about it from the
+ * BSS structure cfg80211 maintains. The BSS list is also made available
+ * to userspace.
+ */
/**
* struct cfg80211_ssid - SSID description
@@ -1020,7 +1092,7 @@ struct cfg80211_pmksa {
* @cancel_remain_on_channel: Cancel an on-going remain-on-channel operation.
* This allows the operation to be terminated prior to timeout based on
* the duration value.
- * @action: Transmit an action frame
+ * @mgmt_tx: Transmit a management frame
*
* @testmode_cmd: run a test mode command
*
@@ -1172,7 +1244,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
struct net_device *dev,
u64 cookie);
- int (*action)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
+ int (*mgmt_tx)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
struct ieee80211_channel *chan,
enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type,
bool channel_type_valid,
@@ -1236,6 +1308,10 @@ struct mac_address {
u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
};
+struct ieee80211_txrx_stypes {
+ u16 tx, rx;
+};
+
/**
* struct wiphy - wireless hardware description
* @reg_notifier: the driver's regulatory notification callback
@@ -1286,6 +1362,10 @@ struct mac_address {
* @privid: a pointer that drivers can use to identify if an arbitrary
* wiphy is theirs, e.g. in global notifiers
* @bands: information about bands/channels supported by this device
+ *
+ * @mgmt_stypes: bitmasks of frame subtypes that can be subscribed to or
+ * transmitted through nl80211, points to an array indexed by interface
+ * type
*/
struct wiphy {
/* assign these fields before you register the wiphy */
@@ -1294,9 +1374,12 @@ struct wiphy {
u8 perm_addr[ETH_ALEN];
u8 addr_mask[ETH_ALEN];
- u16 n_addresses;
struct mac_address *addresses;
+ const struct ieee80211_txrx_stypes *mgmt_stypes;
+
+ u16 n_addresses;
+
/* Supported interface modes, OR together BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_...) */
u16 interface_modes;
@@ -1492,8 +1575,8 @@ struct cfg80211_cached_keys;
* set by driver (if supported) on add_interface BEFORE registering the
* netdev and may otherwise be used by driver read-only, will be update
* by cfg80211 on change_interface
- * @action_registrations: list of registrations for action frames
- * @action_registrations_lock: lock for the list
+ * @mgmt_registrations: list of registrations for management frames
+ * @mgmt_registrations_lock: lock for the list
* @mtx: mutex used to lock data in this struct
* @cleanup_work: work struct used for cleanup that can't be done directly
*/
@@ -1505,8 +1588,8 @@ struct wireless_dev {
struct list_head list;
struct net_device *netdev;
- struct list_head action_registrations;
- spinlock_t action_registrations_lock;
+ struct list_head mgmt_registrations;
+ spinlock_t mgmt_registrations_lock;
struct mutex mtx;
@@ -1563,8 +1646,10 @@ static inline void *wdev_priv(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
return wiphy_priv(wdev->wiphy);
}
-/*
- * Utility functions
+/**
+ * DOC: Utility functions
+ *
+ * cfg80211 offers a number of utility functions that can be useful.
*/
/**
@@ -1715,7 +1800,15 @@ unsigned int ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb(const struct sk_buff *skb);
* ieee80211_hdrlen - get header length in bytes from frame control
* @fc: frame control field in little-endian format
*/
-unsigned int ieee80211_hdrlen(__le16 fc);
+unsigned int __attribute_const__ ieee80211_hdrlen(__le16 fc);
+
+/**
+ * DOC: Data path helpers
+ *
+ * In addition to generic utilities, cfg80211 also offers
+ * functions that help implement the data path for devices
+ * that do not do the 802.11/802.3 conversion on the device.
+ */
/**
* ieee80211_data_to_8023 - convert an 802.11 data frame to 802.3
@@ -1777,8 +1870,10 @@ unsigned int cfg80211_classify8021d(struct sk_buff *skb);
*/
const u8 *cfg80211_find_ie(u8 eid, const u8 *ies, int len);
-/*
- * Regulatory helper functions for wiphys
+/**
+ * DOC: Regulatory enforcement infrastructure
+ *
+ * TODO
*/
/**
@@ -2181,6 +2276,20 @@ void cfg80211_michael_mic_failure(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr,
void cfg80211_ibss_joined(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid, gfp_t gfp);
/**
+ * DOC: RFkill integration
+ *
+ * RFkill integration in cfg80211 is almost invisible to drivers,
+ * as cfg80211 automatically registers an rfkill instance for each
+ * wireless device it knows about. Soft kill is also translated
+ * into disconnecting and turning all interfaces off, drivers are
+ * expected to turn off the device when all interfaces are down.
+ *
+ * However, devices may have a hard RFkill line, in which case they
+ * also need to interact with the rfkill subsystem, via cfg80211.
+ * They can do this with a few helper functions documented here.
+ */
+
+/**
* wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state - notify cfg80211 about hw block state
* @wiphy: the wiphy
* @blocked: block status
@@ -2201,6 +2310,17 @@ void wiphy_rfkill_stop_polling(struct wiphy *wiphy);
#ifdef CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE
/**
+ * DOC: Test mode
+ *
+ * Test mode is a set of utility functions to allow drivers to
+ * interact with driver-specific tools to aid, for instance,
+ * factory programming.
+ *
+ * This chapter describes how drivers interact with it, for more
+ * information see the nl80211 book's chapter on it.
+ */
+
+/**
* cfg80211_testmode_alloc_reply_skb - allocate testmode reply
* @wiphy: the wiphy
* @approxlen: an upper bound of the length of the data that will
@@ -2373,38 +2493,39 @@ void cfg80211_new_sta(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr,
struct station_info *sinfo, gfp_t gfp);
/**
- * cfg80211_rx_action - notification of received, unprocessed Action frame
+ * cfg80211_rx_mgmt - notification of received, unprocessed management frame
* @dev: network device
* @freq: Frequency on which the frame was received in MHz
- * @buf: Action frame (header + body)
+ * @buf: Management frame (header + body)
* @len: length of the frame data
* @gfp: context flags
- * Returns %true if a user space application is responsible for rejecting the
- * unrecognized Action frame; %false if no such application is registered
- * (i.e., the driver is responsible for rejecting the unrecognized Action
- * frame)
+ *
+ * Returns %true if a user space application has registered for this frame.
+ * For action frames, that makes it responsible for rejecting unrecognized
+ * action frames; %false otherwise, in which case for action frames the
+ * driver is responsible for rejecting the frame.
*
* This function is called whenever an Action frame is received for a station
* mode interface, but is not processed in kernel.
*/
-bool cfg80211_rx_action(struct net_device *dev, int freq, const u8 *buf,
- size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+bool cfg80211_rx_mgmt(struct net_device *dev, int freq, const u8 *buf,
+ size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
/**
- * cfg80211_action_tx_status - notification of TX status for Action frame
+ * cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status - notification of TX status for management frame
* @dev: network device
- * @cookie: Cookie returned by cfg80211_ops::action()
- * @buf: Action frame (header + body)
+ * @cookie: Cookie returned by cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx()
+ * @buf: Management frame (header + body)
* @len: length of the frame data
* @ack: Whether frame was acknowledged
* @gfp: context flags
*
- * This function is called whenever an Action frame was requested to be
- * transmitted with cfg80211_ops::action() to report the TX status of the
+ * This function is called whenever a management frame was requested to be
+ * transmitted with cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx() to report the TX status of the
* transmission attempt.
*/
-void cfg80211_action_tx_status(struct net_device *dev, u64 cookie,
- const u8 *buf, size_t len, bool ack, gfp_t gfp);
+void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct net_device *dev, u64 cookie,
+ const u8 *buf, size_t len, bool ack, gfp_t gfp);
/**
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index b0787a1dea90..2a1811366076 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ struct ieee80211_low_level_stats {
* @BSS_CHANGED_ARP_FILTER: Hardware ARP filter address list or state changed.
* @BSS_CHANGED_QOS: QoS for this association was enabled/disabled. Note
* that it is only ever disabled for station mode.
+ * @BSS_CHANGED_IDLE: Idle changed for this BSS/interface.
*/
enum ieee80211_bss_change {
BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC = 1<<0,
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change {
BSS_CHANGED_IBSS = 1<<11,
BSS_CHANGED_ARP_FILTER = 1<<12,
BSS_CHANGED_QOS = 1<<13,
+ BSS_CHANGED_IDLE = 1<<14,
/* when adding here, make sure to change ieee80211_reconfig */
};
@@ -223,6 +225,9 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change {
* hardware must not perform any ARP filtering. Note, that the filter will
* be enabled also in promiscuous mode.
* @qos: This is a QoS-enabled BSS.
+ * @idle: This interface is idle. There's also a global idle flag in the
+ * hardware config which may be more appropriate depending on what
+ * your driver/device needs to do.
*/
struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
const u8 *bssid;
@@ -247,6 +252,7 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
u8 arp_addr_cnt;
bool arp_filter_enabled;
bool qos;
+ bool idle;
};
/**
@@ -783,20 +789,6 @@ static inline bool ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
}
/**
- * enum ieee80211_key_alg - key algorithm
- * @ALG_WEP: WEP40 or WEP104
- * @ALG_TKIP: TKIP
- * @ALG_CCMP: CCMP (AES)
- * @ALG_AES_CMAC: AES-128-CMAC
- */
-enum ieee80211_key_alg {
- ALG_WEP,
- ALG_TKIP,
- ALG_CCMP,
- ALG_AES_CMAC,
-};
-
-/**
* enum ieee80211_key_flags - key flags
*
* These flags are used for communication about keys between the driver
@@ -833,7 +825,7 @@ enum ieee80211_key_flags {
* @hw_key_idx: To be set by the driver, this is the key index the driver
* wants to be given when a frame is transmitted and needs to be
* encrypted in hardware.
- * @alg: The key algorithm.
+ * @cipher: The key's cipher suite selector.
* @flags: key flags, see &enum ieee80211_key_flags.
* @keyidx: the key index (0-3)
* @keylen: key material length
@@ -846,7 +838,7 @@ enum ieee80211_key_flags {
* @iv_len: The IV length for this key type
*/
struct ieee80211_key_conf {
- enum ieee80211_key_alg alg;
+ u32 cipher;
u8 icv_len;
u8 iv_len;
u8 hw_key_idx;
@@ -1102,6 +1094,10 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
*
* @max_rates: maximum number of alternate rate retry stages
* @max_rate_tries: maximum number of tries for each stage
+ *
+ * @napi_weight: weight used for NAPI polling. You must specify an
+ * appropriate value here if a napi_poll operation is provided
+ * by your driver.
*/
struct ieee80211_hw {
struct ieee80211_conf conf;
@@ -1113,6 +1109,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
int channel_change_time;
int vif_data_size;
int sta_data_size;
+ int napi_weight;
u16 queues;
u16 max_listen_interval;
s8 max_signal;
@@ -1687,6 +1684,8 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action {
* switch operation for CSAs received from the AP may implement this
* callback. They must then call ieee80211_chswitch_done() to indicate
* completion of the channel switch.
+ *
+ * @napi_poll: Poll Rx queue for incoming data frames.
*/
struct ieee80211_ops {
int (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
@@ -1752,6 +1751,7 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*flush)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool drop);
void (*channel_switch)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_channel_switch *ch_switch);
+ int (*napi_poll)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int budget);
};
/**
@@ -1897,6 +1897,22 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
*/
void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+/** ieee80211_napi_schedule - schedule NAPI poll
+ *
+ * Use this function to schedule NAPI polling on a device.
+ *
+ * @hw: the hardware to start polling
+ */
+void ieee80211_napi_schedule(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+
+/** ieee80211_napi_complete - complete NAPI polling
+ *
+ * Use this function to finish NAPI polling on a device.
+ *
+ * @hw: the hardware to stop polling
+ */
+void ieee80211_napi_complete(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+
/**
* ieee80211_rx - receive frame
*
@@ -2518,6 +2534,18 @@ void ieee80211_cqm_rssi_notify(struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
*/
void ieee80211_chswitch_done(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, bool success);
+/**
+ * ieee80211_request_smps - request SM PS transition
+ * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
+ * @smps_mode: new SM PS mode
+ *
+ * This allows the driver to request an SM PS transition in managed
+ * mode. This is useful when the driver has more information than
+ * the stack about possible interference, for example by bluetooth.
+ */
+void ieee80211_request_smps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
+ enum ieee80211_smps_mode smps_mode);
+
/* Rate control API */
/**