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Gábor Stefanik 13bdcd90bb zd1211rw: Replace ZD_CS_MULTICAST with ZD_CS_NO_ACK
According to my tests, all that ZD_CS_MULTICAST does is to
disable retrying/waiting for an ACK. Reflect this by renaming
the bit to ZD_CS_NO_ACK and setting it based on
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK, instead of is_multicast_ether_addr.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:24 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2d0ddec5b2 mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changed
The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the
BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most
other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes
config_interface and rolls all the information it previously
passed to drivers into bss_info_changed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:36 -04:00
David S. Miller 2d6a5e9500 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
2009-03-17 15:01:30 -07:00
Jouni Malinen 640c65eae6 zd1211rw: Do not panic on device eject when associated
zd_op_tx() must not return an arbitrary error value since that can
leave mac80211 trying to retransmit the frame and with the extra data
pushed into the beginning of the skb on every attempt, this will end up
causing a kernel panic (skb_under_panic from skb_push call). This can
happen, e.g., when ejecting the device when associated.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16 18:01:59 -04:00
Alina Friedrichsen 5fe73197d3 zd1211rw: Implement get_tsf()
This patch implements get_tsf() of ieee80211_ops in the zd1211rw driver.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05 14:39:30 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez fe33eb3908 cfg80211: move all regulatory hints to workqueue
All regulatory hints (core, driver, userspace and 11d) are now processed in
a workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:57 -05:00
David S. Miller 5e30589521 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-14 23:12:00 -08:00
Johannes Berg 00d3f14cf9 mac80211: use cfg80211s BSS infrastructure
Remove all the code from mac80211 to keep track of BSSes
and use the cfg80211-provided code completely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13 13:45:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg a472780100 zd1211rw: honour enable_beacon conf
This makes zd1211rw honour enable_beacon, as well as fixing
a memory leak: the beacon skb is leaked when configuring it
to the hardware fails.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13 13:45:22 -05:00
Johannes Berg 570a0a7c3b zd1211rw: do not ratelimit no-ops
It is rather confusing to see this in the log:
[  695.606877] __ratelimit: 40 callbacks suppressed
[  700.726878] __ratelimit: 40 callbacks suppressed

without ever seeing any actual message. This is because
zd1211rw doesn't compile out the net_ratelimit() call
properly if debugging is not enabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13 13:45:19 -05:00
Hin-Tak Leung efb43f4b2c zd1211rw: treat MAXIM_NEW_RF(0x08) as UW2453_RF(0x09) for TP-Link WN322/422G
Three people (Petr Mensik <pihhan@cipis.net>
["si" should be U+0161 U+00ED], Stephen Ho <stephenhoinhk@gmail.com>
on zd1211-devs and Ismael Ojeda Perez <iojedaperez@gmail.com>
on linux-wireless) reported success in getting TP-Link WN322G/WN422G
working by treating MAXIM_NEW_RF(0x08) as UW2453_RF(0x09) for rf
chip hardware initialization.

Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: Petr Mensik <pihhan@cipis.net>
Tested-by: Stephen Ho <stephenhoinhk@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ismael Ojeda Perez <iojedaperez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-11 11:27:19 -05:00
Hin-Tak Leung 14990c69b5 zd1211rw: adding 0ace:0xa211 as a ZD1211 device
Christoph Biedl <sourceforge.bnwi@manchmal.in-ulm.de> reported success
in the sourceforge zd1211 mailing list on this addition. This product ID
was supported by the vendor driver ZD1211LnxDrv 2.22.0.0 (and possibly
earlier) and it probably should have been added earlier.

Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: Christoph Biedl <sourceforge.bnwi@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-11 11:27:19 -05:00
Johannes Berg 7fee5372d8 mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DB
Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace
than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes
some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using
this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based
scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a
little fishy anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09 15:03:44 -05:00
Hin-Tak Leung de2624966f zd1211rw: adding Sitecom WL-603 (0df6:0036) to the USB id list
Giuseppe Cala <jiveaxe@gmail.com> (The second "a" in "Cala" should be
a grave, U+00E0) reported success on zd1211-devs@lists.sourceforge.net.
The chip info is:
zd1211b chip 0df6:0036 v4810 high 00-0c-f6 AL2230_RF pa0 g--N-

The Sitecom WL-603 is detected as a zd1211b with a AL2230 RF transceiver chip.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cala <jiveaxe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-22 13:55:03 -05:00
Coly Li 73ac36ea14 fix similar typos to successfull
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull".  After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)

This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:15 -08:00
Julia Lawall f201a8a451 drivers/net/usb: use USB API functions rather than constants
This set of patches introduces calls to the following set of functions:

usb_endpoint_dir_in(epd)
usb_endpoint_dir_out(epd)
usb_endpoint_is_bulk_in(epd)
usb_endpoint_is_bulk_out(epd)
usb_endpoint_is_int_in(epd)
usb_endpoint_is_int_out(epd)
usb_endpoint_num(epd)
usb_endpoint_type(epd)
usb_endpoint_xfer_bulk(epd)
usb_endpoint_xfer_control(epd)
usb_endpoint_xfer_int(epd)
usb_endpoint_xfer_isoc(epd)

In some cases, introducing one of these functions is not possible, and it
just replaces an explicit integer value by one of the following constants:

USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_BULK
USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_CONTROL
USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_INT
USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_ISOC

In drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.c the code:

(endpoint->bEndpointAddress & USB_TYPE_MASK) == USB_DIR_OUT

is suspicious.  If it is intended to use USB_ENDPOINT_DIR_MASK rather than
USB_TYPE_MASK, then the whole conditional test could be converted to a call
to usb_endpoint_is_bulk_in.

An extract of the semantic patch that makes these changes is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r1@ struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *epd; @@

- ((epd->bmAttributes & \(USB_ENDPOINT_XFERTYPE_MASK\|3\)) ==
- \(USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_CONTROL\|0\))
+ usb_endpoint_xfer_control(epd)

@r5@ struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *epd; @@

- ((epd->bEndpointAddress & \(USB_ENDPOINT_DIR_MASK\|0x80\)) ==
-  \(USB_DIR_IN\|0x80\))
+ usb_endpoint_dir_in(epd)

@inc@
@@

#include <linux/usb.h>

@depends on !inc && (r1||r5)@
@@

+ #include <linux/usb.h>
  #include <linux/usb/...>
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-29 19:40:47 -08:00
David S. Miller 730c30ec64 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
2008-12-05 22:54:40 -08:00
Shaddy Baddah cde6901b7b zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr()
Under my 2.6.28-rc6 sparc64, when associating to an AP through my
zd1211rw device, I was seeing kernel log messages like (not exact output):

  Kernel unaligned access at TPC[10129b68] zd_mac_rx+0x144/0x32c [zd1211rw]

For the zd1211rw module, on RX, the 80211 packet will be located after
the PLCP header in the skb data buffer. The PLCP header being 5 bytes
long, the 80211 header will start unaligned from an aligned skb
buffer.

As per Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt, we must replace the
not unaligned() safe compare_ether_addr() with memcmp() to protect
architectures that require alignment.

Signed-off-by: Shaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:18:35 -05:00
David S. Miller 9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
Daniel Drake 0feec9dfe7 zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs
07fa/1196
Bewan BWIFI-USB54AR: Tested by night1308, this device is a ZD1211B with
an AL2230S radio.

0ace/b215
HP 802.11abg: Tested by Robert Philippe

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-06 16:37:10 -05:00
Johannes Berg be3d48106c wireless: remove struct regdom hinting
The code needs to be split out and cleaned up, so as a
first step remove the capability, to add it back in a
subsequent patch as a separate function. Also remove the
publically facing return value of the function and the
wiphy argument. A number of internal functions go from
being generic helpers to just being used for alpha2
setting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:02:30 -04:00
Johannes Berg e6a9854b05 mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg e8975581f6 mac80211: introduce hw config change flags
This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration
actually changed, e.g. channel etc.

No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are
expected to act on this if they want to.

Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often
we configure something else.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg e174961ca1 net: convert print_mac to %pM
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.

I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
David S. Miller b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
David S. Miller 47a227db74 zd1211: Use skb_queue_walk() instead of by-hand implementation.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23 00:23:30 -07:00
born.into.silence@gmail.com 5d89945e6e wireless: zd1211rw: add device ID fix wifi dongle "trust nw-3100"
akpm: taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11587

I bought the wifi dongle trust nw-3100 wich is in fact a zd1211rw.  Its
hardware id was missing in the sources, adding it made it work flawlessly.

Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-22 16:52:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg 05c914fe33 mac80211: use nl80211 interface types
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez e83a1070a1 zd1211rw: make use of new regulatory_hint()
This cleans up zd1211rw's own regulatory work, and makes use of
the new cfg80211 regulatory_hint().

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez f59ac04816 cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:42 -04:00
Johannes Berg 605a0bd66d mac80211: remove IEEE80211_HW_HOST_GEN_BEACON_TEMPLATE flag
I forgot this in the previous patch that made it unused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:36:24 -04:00
David S. Miller fc943b12e4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-07-14 20:40:34 -07:00
David S. Miller 2aec609fb4 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
2008-07-14 20:23:54 -07:00
Johannes Berg 9d139c810a mac80211: revamp beacon configuration
This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling
to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always
require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally,
it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call
to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it
removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of
having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:30:07 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo 86229f0c7b zd1211rw: stop beacons on remove_interface
If a mesh or ad-hoc interface is brought up and later it is replaced
by managed interface, the managed interface will keep transmitting
the beacons that were configured for the former interface. This patch
fixes that behaviour.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-09 16:16:32 -04:00
David S. Miller 7c3ceb4a40 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c
	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-07-08 16:30:17 -07:00
Daniel Drake f2cae6c5e4 zd1211rw: beacon config error checking
Add some error checking to the new beacon configuration code.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:16:03 -04:00
Firat Birlik 9dfd55008e zd1211rw: add ID for AirTies WUS-201
I would like to inform you of our zd1211 based usb wifi adapter (AirTies
WUS-201), which works with the zd1211rw driver with the following device
id definition.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-07 15:31:40 -04:00
Harvey Harrison 8536582059 zd1211rw: use frame control helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26 16:49:13 -04:00
David S. Miller 65b53e4cc9 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
2008-06-10 02:22:26 -07:00
David S. Miller 788c0a5316 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
2008-06-10 01:54:31 -07:00
Michael Buesch d005b1d042 zd1211rw: Fix data padding for QoS
This patch fixes a data alignment issue in the zd1211rw driver.
The IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA bit should be used as a bitwise test
to test for the presence of the 2 byte QoS control field.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-09 15:50:20 -04:00
Al Viro d63ddcec20 misc drivers/net endianness noise
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-22 06:34:15 -04:00
Atsushi Nemoto a8c4ea7a10 zd1211rw: Use DMA-aware buffer for usb transfer
The zd1211rw driver uses unaligned stack buffer for USB control
message.  But it might cause stack corruption on non-coherent
platform, such as MIPS.  Use DMA-aware buffers for USB transfer.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:12 -04:00
Johannes Berg e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2e92e6f2c5 mac80211: use rate index in TX control
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.

The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:09 -04:00
Al Viro 4ec7ffa2df misc drivers/net endianness noise
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-21 16:55:59 -07:00
David S. Miller f42a44494b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-05-15 00:52:37 -07:00
Bruno Randolf 566bfe5a8b mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.

this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.

for signal:

  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW

for noise we currently only have dBm:

  IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW

if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.

i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.

DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
  rt2400        dBm             n/a
  rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
  rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
  rt61pci       dBm             n/a
  rt73usb       dBm             n/a
rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent

drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
Bruno Randolf 84e6dc9acf zd1211rw: initial IBSS support
this adds initial IBSS support for the zydas zd1211rw:
convince driver that it can do IBSS mode. add mac80211 beacon_update callback.

IBSS merge and TSF updates don't work yet, but it makes the driver usable in
ad-hoc networks.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:48 -04:00