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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
David S. Miller 9409172262 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lowpan/lowpan 2009-08-23 19:19:30 -07:00
Andy Grover f2c449320d RDS: Add a debug message suggesting to load transport modules
Now that RDS transports are no longer compiled-in to RDS core,
there is now the possibility that they will not be loaded. This
adds a helpful suggestion when rds_bind() fails to find a transport.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:13:14 -07:00
Andy Grover 335776bd69 RDS: Track transports via an array, not a list
Now that transports can be loaded in arbitrary order,
it is important for rds_trans_get_preferred() to look
for them in a particular order, instead of walking the list
until it finds a transport that works for a given address.
Now, each transport registers for a specific transport slot,
and these are ordered so that preferred transports come first,
and then if they are not loaded, other transports are queried.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:13:12 -07:00
Andy Grover 40d866095d RDS: Modularize RDMA and TCP transports
Enable the building of transports as modules.

Also, improve consistency of Kconfig messages in relation to other
protocols, and move build dependency on IB from the RDS core code
to the rds_rdma module.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:13:09 -07:00
Andy Grover 616b757ae1 RDS: Export symbols from core RDS
Now that rdma and tcp transports will be modularized,
we need to export a number of functions so they can call them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:13:07 -07:00
Andy Grover 70041088e3 RDS: Add TCP transport to RDS
This code allows RDS to be tunneled over a TCP connection.

RDMA operations are disabled when using TCP transport,
but this frees RDS from the IB/RDMA stack dependency, and allows
it to be used with standard Ethernet adapters, or in a VM.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:13:02 -07:00
David S. Miller f8f2109d4f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-08-21 01:56:56 -07:00
Johannes Berg 11ba964d4f mac80211: fix register_hw error path
"cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request"
introduced a bug into the error path, because now
we allocate the entire scan request and not just
the channel list (the channel list is allocated
together with the scan request) -- on errors we
thus also need to free the entire scan request.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:07 -04:00
Zhu Yi 16a832e785 cfg80211: allow cfg80211_connect_result with bssid == NULL
In case of connection failure, the bssid info is not a must have.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:07 -04:00
David Kilroy 415ad1efae cfg80211: fix leaks of wdev->conn->ie
This only occurs in the following error situations:
 - driver calls connect_result with failure
 - error scheduling authentication on connect
 - error initiating scan (to get BSSID and channel) on
   connect
 - userspace calls disconnect while in the SCANNING or
   SCAN_AGAIN states

Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:06 -04:00
Johannes Berg ad002395fd cfg80211: fix dangling scan request checking
My patch "cfg80211: fix deadlock" broke the code it
was supposed to fix, the scan request checking. But
it's not trivial to put it back the way it was, since
the original patch had a deadlock.

Now do it in a completely new way: queue the check
off to a work struct, where we can freely lock. But
that has some more complications, like needing to
wait for it to be done before the wiphy/rdev can be
destroyed, so some code is required to handle that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:05 -04:00
Daniel Walker c8a61a7d33 mac80211: New stat counters for multicast and unicast forwarded frames
This expands on the current fwded_frames stat counter which should be equal to
the total of these two new counters.  The new counters are called "fwded_mcast"
and "fwded_unicast".

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:04 -04:00
John W. Linville 29508d122a rc80211_pid_algo.c: remove unused variable declaration
CC [M]  net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.o
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c: In function ‘rate_control_pid_rate_init’:
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c:304: warning: unused variable ‘si’

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:03 -04:00
Javier Cardona bfc32e6a95 mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.
Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric.  This used to
be done inside the rate control module.  This patch breaks the dependency
between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm.  Mesh will now work
independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.

The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
each mesh peer station.  If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
peer link is marked as broken.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:02 -04:00
Johannes Berg f424afa178 mac80211: remove deprecated API
All but two drivers have now stopped using the two
deprecated members radio_enabled and beacon_int,
so it's about time to remove them for good.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg 3ac64beecd mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up
with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter
operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify
things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add
a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that
need the multicast address list implement. This new
callback must be atomic, but most drivers either
don't care or just calculate a hash which can be
done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware
non-atomically.

A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170,
mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00,
wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this
new capability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg ea416a793d cfg80211: report userspace SME connected event properly
Instead of hacking the event reporting into the
__cfg80211_connect_result() function which is also
invoked by others, set up things correctly and then
invoke that function, so that it can do more sanity
checking.

Also, it is currently not possible to get a ROAMED
event from the userspace SME anyway since we send
out a DISCONNECTED event when it disassociates and
then a new CONNECTED event on the next association.

Thanks to Zhu Yi for pointing out that the code is
somewhat convoluted and doesn't warn when it should.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg 0ff6ce7b36 cfg80211: fix deadlock
When removing an interface with nl80211, cfg80211 will
deadlock in the netdev notifier because we're already
holding rdev->mtx and try to acquire it again to verify
the scan has been done.

This bug was introduced by my patch
"cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requests".

To fix this, move the dangling scan request check into
wiphy_unregister(). This will not be able to catch all
cases right away, but if the scan problem happens with
a manual ifdown or so it will be possible to remedy it
by removing the module/device.

Additionally, add comments about the deadlock scenario.

Reported-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:56 -04:00
Jussi Kivilinna a8b875e7dc cfg80211: export cfg80211_wext_siwfreq
cfg80211_wext_siwfreq() should be exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:33:09 -04:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov 929122cdd5 Drop ARPHRD_IEEE802154_PHY
There are not maste devices in mac802154 anymore, so drop
ARPHRD_IEEE802154_PHY definition.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
2009-08-19 23:08:24 +04:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov 16eea493da ieee802154: add support for channel pages from IEEE 802.15.4-2006
IEEE 802.15.4-2006 adds new concept: channel pages, which can contain several
channels. Add support for channel pages in the API and in the fakehard driver.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
2009-08-19 23:08:22 +04:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov 2bfb1070ba ieee802154: add a sysfs representation of WPAN master devices
Add a sysfs/in-kernel representation of LR-WPAN master devices.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
2009-08-19 23:08:20 +04:00
Randy Dunlap ae6e2aef6c phonet: fix build when PROC_FS is disabled
Fix phonet build when PROC_FS is not enabled:

net/built-in.o: In function `pn_sock_open':
socket.c:(.text+0x23c649): undefined reference to `seq_open_net'
net/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x21018): undefined reference to `seq_release_net'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-17 17:48:25 -07:00
Oliver Hartkopp 1758c09476 can: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of BUG_ON() for sanity check in receive path
To ensure a proper handling of CAN frames transported in skbuffs some checks
need to be performed at receive time.

As stated by Michael Olbrich and Luotao Fu BUG_ON() might be to restrictive.
This is right as we can just drop the non conform skbuff and the Kernel can
continue working.

This patch replaces the BUG_ON() with a WARN_ONCE() so that the system remains
healthy but we made the problem visible (once).

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
CC: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
CC: Luotao Fu <l.fu@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 16:36:57 -07:00
Vasu Dev b85daa5324 vlan: adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops and updates fcoe_ddp_xid field
Adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops functions vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_setup
and vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_done, their implementation simply calls real eth device
net_device_ops for FCoE DDP setup and done operations.

Updates VLAN netdev field value for fcoe_ddp_xid from real eth device netdev.

Above changes are required for fcoe DDP offload working on a VLAN interface.

Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 16:12:06 -07:00
David S. Miller cf99111661 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-14 16:07:21 -07:00
David S. Miller a8519de4a0 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-08-14 12:29:17 -07:00
Johannes Berg 16cb9d42b6 cfg80211: allow driver to override PS default
Sometimes drivers might have a good reason to override
the PS default, like iwlwifi right now where it affects
RX performance significantly at this point. This will
allow them to override the default, if desired, in a
way that users can still change it according to their
trade-off choices, not the driver's, like would happen
if the driver just disabled PS completely then.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg 36e6fea849 cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requests
If you trigger a scan request on an interface and then
take it down, or rmmod the module or unplug the device
the driver might "forget" to cancel the scan request.
That is a bug in the driver, but the current behaviour
is that we just hang endlessly waiting for the netdev
refcount to become 0 which it never will. To improve
robustness, check for this situation in cfg80211, warn
about it and clean up behind the driver. I don't just
clean up silently because it's likely that the driver
also has some internal state it has now leaked.

Additionally, this fixes a locking bug, clearing the
scan_req pointer should be done under the rdev lock.

Finally, we also need to _wait_ for the scan work and
not just abort it since it might be pending and wanting
to do a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:07 -04:00
David Woo 70bdb6b275 mac80211: Fix invalid length passed to IE parser for PLINK CONFIRM frames
The length of the fixed portion of plink confirm frames is 4 bytes longer than
the other plink_action frames.  This path corrects an error in the length
adjustment done for these type of frames.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:06 -04:00
David Woo 57ef5ddb45 mac80211: Mark a destination sequence number as valid when a PREQ is received.
If a PREQ frame is received giving us a fresher DSN than what we have, record
the new dsn and mark it as valid.  This patch fixes a bug in the setting of the
MESH_PATH_DSN_VALID flag.

Also, minor fix to coding style on that file.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:06 -04:00
Javier Cardona cca89496a8 mac80211: Fix unresolved mesh frames queued without valid control.vif
Mesh frames that could not be immediately resolved were queued with a NULL
info->control.vif.  This patch moves the call to mesh_nexthop_lookup closer to
the point where it is handed over to ieee80211_tx().  This ensures that the
unresolved frames are ready to be sent once the path is resolved.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:03 -04:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 1fe90b033e trivial: remove duplicate "different" from comment
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:02 -04:00
Javier Cardona 18889231e4 mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.
This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the
table growth code to the mesh workqueue.

Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and
declare them static.

Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona 5b36583425 mac80211: Assign a default mesh beaconing interval.
The mesh stack was enabling beaconing without specifying an interval.  This
patch defines a default beaconing interval of 1s.

Incidentally, this fixes mesh beaconing in mac80211_hwsim devices.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona 5815814bfa mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.
This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades
below a certain threshold.  This results in a faster path recovery time than
by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken
links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona d403a1c66e mac80211: Update the station failed frames average when minstrel is used.
The fail_avg value is used to compute the mesh metric, and was only being set
by the pid rate control module. This fixes the mesh path selection mechanism
for cards that use mistrel for rate control.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:00 -04:00
Javier Cardona 3c5772a527 mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.
The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame
format to use 3-address.  This was done to avoid interactions with widely
deployed lazy-WDS access points.

This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated
and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward.  The
address fields used for group addressed frames is:

In 802.11 header
 ToDS:0  FromDS:1
 addr1: DA  (broadcast/multicast address)
 addr2: TA
 addr3: Mesh SA

In address extension header:
 addr4: SA  (only present if frame was proxied)

Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack
versions.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:00 -04:00
Andrey Yurovsky a9e3091bf0 mac80211: Use correct sign for mesh active path refresh.
On locally originated traffic, we refresh active paths after a timeout.  The
decision to do this was using the wrong sign and therefore the refresh timer
was triggered for every frame.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:59 -04:00
Javier Cardona fe58343461 mac80211: Improve dequeing from mpath frame queue.
Also, fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg 62b1208e14 mac80211: small tx code cleanup
It's really easier to read if it's not indented
as much, so invert the condition and rearrange
the code so the smaller chunk is indented instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg d0b69609dc mac80211: sequence number micro-optimisation
There's no need to mask the variable with 0xFFF0
since we ever only use it as a u16 and the lowest
four bits can't ever be non-zero. The compiler
cannot infer the latter, and therefore has to emit
code to do the masking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg feff1f2fea mac80211: take statistics before encryption
When encryption is used, the number of bytes
sent to the peer increases by the IV and ICV.
This is accounted if software encryption is
used, but not if the devices does hardware
encryption. To make the numbers comparable,
never account for that overhead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg aee83eaff8 cfg80211: add missing device list locking
When calling into the wext code from the NETDEV_UP
notifier, we need to hold the devlist_mtx mutex as
the wext code ends up calling into channel checks.

Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:54 -04:00
Pat Erley d5b96a6f39 mac80211: remove max_bandwidth
This removes the max_bandwidth attribute.  It is only ever
written to, and is duplicated by max_bandwidth_khz in the
regulatory code.

Signed-off-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:53 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4b181144e6 cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ
"cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces"
contained a locking bug -- in the managed-mode SIWFREQ
call it would end up running into a lock recursion.

This fixes it by not checking that particular interface
for a channel that it needs to stay on, which is as it
should be as that's the interface we're setting the
channel for.

Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5ba63533bb cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request
The memory layout for scan requests was rather wrong,
we put the scan SSIDs before the channels which could
lead to the channel pointers being unaligned in memory.
It turns out that using a pointer to the channel array
isn't necessary anyway since we can embed a zero-length
array into the struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg ad5351db89 mac80211: allow DMA optimisation
If we have a lot of frames to transmit at once, for
instance with fragmentation, it can be an optimisation
to only tell the DMA engine about them on the last
fragment/frame to avoid banging the IO too much. This
patch allows implementation such an optimisation by
telling the driver when more frames can be expected.

Currently, this is used by mac80211 only on fragmented
frames, but could also be used in the future on other
frames when the queue was full and there are multiple
frames pending.

Note that drivers need to be careful when using this
flag, they need to kick their DMA engines not just
when this flag is clear, but also when the queue gets
full so that progress can be made.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg f5ea9120be nl80211: add generation number to all dumps
In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether
it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when
using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number
in each dump message that indicates whether the list has
changed or not -- its value is arbitrary.

This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs
some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation
number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or
stations.

The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within
cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be
stored there as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:43 -04:00