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Stanislaw Gruszka f36d04abe6 iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:18 -08:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen 6c3872e1d5 iwlwifi: Adjusting PLCP error threshold for 1000 NIC
While testing the station with the NIC 1000 family, it is found that
the plcp error can easily exceed 50 value in 100mSecs.  This creates
unneccessary radio reset/tuning.  This patch raises the PLCP error
threshold of the NIC 1000 from 50 to 200 error count.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:05 -08:00
Reinette Chatre 4843b5a731 iwlwifi: reset card during probe
To ensure that card is in a sane state during probe we add a reset call.
This change was prompted by users of kdump who was not able to bring up the
wireless driver in the kdump kernel. The problem here was that the primary
kernel, which is not running at the time, left the wireless card up and
running. When the kdump kernel starts it is thus possible to immediately
receive interrupts from firmware after registering interrupt, but without
being ready to deal with interrupts from firmware yet.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:55 -08:00
Reinette Chatre bbcbb9ef97 iwlwifi: fix scan race
There is a problem if an "internal short scan" is in progress when a
mac80211 requested scan arrives. If this new scan request arrives within
the "next_scan_jiffies" period then driver will immediately return success
and complete the scan. The problem here is that the scan has not been
fully initialized at this time (is_internal_short_scan is still set to true
because of the currently running scan), which results in the scan
completion never to be sent to mac80211. At this time also, evan though the
internal short scan is still running the state (is_internal_short_scan)
will be set to false, so when the internal scan does complete then mac80211
will receive a scan completion.

Fix this by checking right away if a scan is in progress when a scan
request arrives from mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:40 -08:00
Abhijeet Kolekar 7bfedc59ee iwlwifi: cleanup return values
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:31 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy a24dd27c47 iwlwifi: remove unused op-code in PHY Calibration command
Number of calibration op-code are not used by driver, remove those from
iwl-commands.h

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:21 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy 45d427001b iwlwifi: check for aggregation frame and queue
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue,
if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead.
Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate,
if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and
sync-up with mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:10 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy 04cafd7fa7 iwlwifi: add debug function to reset/reload radio/firmware
Adding function to force reset radio or reload firmware from debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:25:55 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy a93e7973d0 iwlwifi: multiple force reset mode
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation.
When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset()
function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help
to bring uCode back to normal operation state.

Currently only 2 type of force reset are available:
 - reset radio
 - reload firmware

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:24:12 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy dff010ac8e iwlwifi: clear all tx queues when firmware ready
Reset and clear all the tx queues when finished downloading runtime
uCode and ready to go into operation mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:22:45 -08:00
Sujith 4cad6c7c38 mac80211: Deny TX BA session requests during disassociation
In associated state, when bringing an interface down, existing
BA sessions are torn down. When this is in progress, nothing
prevents mac80211 from accepting another BA session start request.

Use a new station flag to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-10 16:36:52 -05:00
Deepak Saxena f32338319f Add Station and AdHoc mode support to libertas_tf
Add support for using the libertas_tf driver on a managed
or ad-hoc network.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-10 16:36:50 -05:00
Bob Copeland 2ac2927a95 ath5k: use correct packet type when transmitting
The hardware needs to know what type of frames are being
sent in order to fill in various fields, for example the
timestamp in probe responses (before this patch, it was
always 0).  Set it correctly when initializing the TX
descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-10 16:15:22 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 05df49865b ath9k: Enable IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS flag for ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09 14:10:05 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 375177bf35 mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save.
Even if the null data frame is not acked by the AP, mac80211
goes into power save. This might lead to loss of frames
from the AP.
Prevent this by restarting dynamic_ps_timer when ack is not
received for null data frames.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09 14:10:05 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan e15276a4b2 mac80211: Reset dynamic ps timer in Rx path.
The current mac80211 implementation enables power save if there
is no Tx traffic for a specific timeout. Hence, PS is triggered
even if there is a continuous Rx only traffic(like UDP) going on.
This makes the drivers to wait on the tim bit in the next beacon
to awake which leads to redundant sleep-wake cycles.
Fix this by restarting the dynamic ps timer on receiving every
data packet.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:03 -05:00
Andres Salomon 209c671db7 mac80211: make rate_control_alloc static
rate_control_alloc is not used by anything outside of
ieee80211_init_rate_ctrl_alg.  Both are in rate.c; there's no reason to make
rate_control_alloc visible outside of it.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:03 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 641eabb0a3 ath: fix WARN_ON with Polish (Poland) Contry code
This patch fixes a WARN_ON which is triggered
by Poland's country code.

ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8268
ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x37
ath: Country alpha2 being used: PL
ath: Regpair used: 0x37
  -----------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c:155 ath_regd_init+0x30b
Pid: 12661, comm: firmware/carl91 2.6.33-rc5-wl #18
Call Trace:
 [<>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x76/0x8c
 [<>] ? ar9170_reg_notifier+0x0/0x2d [carl9170usb]
 [<>] ? ath_regd_init+0x30b/0x377 [ath]
 [<>] ? ar9170_register+0x3b3/0x3ca [carl9170usb]
[...]
---[ end trace ]---

Note: Poland is just an example. But it is very likely
that more country codes are affected.

Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:02 -05:00
Kalle Valo 349e6b7289 mac80211: remove get_tx_stats() driver op
get_tx_stats() driver operation is not currently used anywhere in mac80211
and there are no plans to use it in the not-so-near future. So it can go
without anyone missing it.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo 00a08eb62f rt2x00: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo 97e93fcd86 p54: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

p54 uses struct ieee80211_tx_queue_stats also internally, so create a new
identical struct p54_tx_queue_stats which the driver can use.

Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo 1296d47445 iwlwifi: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo 8b2bbe66ab b43legacy: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo 3b27521a5b b43: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo 3b2119096d ath5k: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo d1ace8e57a ar9170: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Because ar9170 uses ieee80211_tx_queue_stats internally, create a new
identical struct ar9170_tx_queue_stats which the driver can use.

Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Kalle Valo 8ccbc3b8b0 mwl8k: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

mwl8k used struct ieee80211_tx_queue_stats internally to track the queue
lenght. Replace struct ieee80211_tx_queue_stats with a simple len field
in struct mwl8k_tx_queue. Limit and count fields seemed to be unused.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Kalle Valo 4046fe66ce adm821: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Ming Lei 733da37dab ath9k: fix keycache leak in split tkip case
If split tkip key is used, ath_delete_key should delete
rx key and rx mic key. This patch fixes the leak of hw
keycache in the case.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Johannes Berg 29165e4c8b mac80211: fix deauth race
When userspace requests a deauth while the
authentication work is pending in the auth
(not probe) state, we do not properly abort
the work and then things get confused.

Fix that and also improve the checks here
to include the correct virtual interface,
just in case two virtual interfaces would
ever try to connect to the same BSS.

Also fix a bug -- need to use list_del_rcu
instead of just list_del to free a work
item.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Samuel Ortiz 21b2d8bd2f iwlwifi: Send broadcast probe request only when asked to
When running directed active scans we currently end up sending both the SSID
probe requests and an additional broadcast one.
This is due to the fact that we always leave the probe request template SSID IE
length to 0. Instead we should set it to the first SSID to scan, and fill the
direct_scan array with the remaining SSIDs to scan for. This way we only send
what we've been asked to: a broadcast probe request when no directed scan is
requested, and directed probe requests otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Ben Cahill ed56a3f15a iwlwifi: Add chain_noise support for 6050
Existing iwl6050_ops->iwl6050_hcmd_utils structure had no pointers to chain
noise functions (gain_computation and chain_noise_reset).  As it turns out,
by adding chain_noise_scale (see related patch), there is no need for separate
chain noise function, so simply use iwl6000_ops->iwl5000_hcmd_utils, and
remove those for 6050.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Ben Cahill d4fe5ac9e0 iwlwifi: Add chain noise scaling factor
6x50 device requires a different scaling factor for Rx gain values sent to
device via PHY_CALIBRATION_CMD (CHAIN_NOISE_GAIN_CMD).  Rather than create
a new iwlXXXX_gain_computation() function, add new chain_noise_scale member
to struct iwl_cfg, and keep using iwl5000_gain_computation().

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg 19885c4fbd mac80211: fix bss_conf.dtim_period
In AP mode, the only mode where the parameter
is supposed to be valid, we never assign it!
Fix that to allow drivers to avoid parsing
the TIM IE for the value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:57 -05:00
Benoit Papillault 199d69f273 mac80211: Added a new debugfs file for reading channel_type
This file helps debugging HT channels since it displays if we are on
ht20 or ht40+/ht40-

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:57 -05:00
Holger Schurig 40e6fa829a libertas: don't retry commands
Retrying commands seldomly works, most often the firmware is in a
weird state anyway and needs the device to reset. So it's better
to report the broken state back to user-space.

Also rename command_timer_fn() into lbs_cmd_timeout_handler(),
which better reflect it's usage.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:56 -05:00
Kalle Valo 85359499ee wl1251: fix txop unit
mac80211 uses unit units of 32 usec with txop but wl1251_acx_ac_cfg()
expects it to be usecs. This fortunately didn't cause any severe problems,
only that firmware was using incorrect WMM settings.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:56 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 40bd5203dd b43: N-PHY: handle allocation fail in samples generation
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:56 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 5f6393ecf5 b43: N-PHY: load generated samples
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:56 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 9442e5b58e b43: N-PHY: partly implement SPUR workaround
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:55 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki bbc6dc121d b43: N-PHY: save calibration for further restore
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:55 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 984ff4ffb7 b43: N-PHY: prepare code for reapplying TX cal coeffs
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:55 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 67cbc3ed5b b43: N-PHY: implement overriding RF control intc
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:55 -05:00
Randy Dunlap 371ba88322 libertas/if_spi: needs linux/semaphore.h
libertas/if_spi.c needs to #include linux/semaphore.h to fix build errors:

drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:59: error: field 'spi_ready' has incomplete type
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:60: error: field 'spi_thread_terminated' has incomplete type
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:785: error: implicit declaration of function 'down_interruptible'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:787: error: implicit declaration of function 'up'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:834: error: implicit declaration of function 'down'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:943: error: implicit declaration of function 'sema_init'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:55 -05:00
Jochen Friedrich 83e34f03ee ssb: fix interrupt assignment
Explicitely enable shared interrupt 2 for any core that didn't get a dedicated IRQ
anymore (fallthrough case) and for EXTIF cores to make gpio interrupts work.
Also remove a bogus comment.

Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:54 -05:00
Larry Finger 0866b03c7d b43/b43legacy: Wake queues in wireless_core_start
If b43 or b43legacy are deauthenticated or disconnected, there is a
possibility that a reconnection is tried with the queues stopped in
mac80211. To prevent this, start the queues before setting
STAT_INITIALIZED.

In b43, a similar change has been in place (twice) in the
wireless_core_init() routine. Remove the duplicate and add similar
code to b43legacy.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>   [2.6.32]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:54 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 74e2bd1fa3 mac80211: tear down all agg queues when restart/reconfig hw
When there is a need to restart/reconfig hw, tear down all the
aggregation queues and let the mac80211 and driver get in-sync to have
the opportunity to re-establish the aggregation queues again.

Need to wait until driver re-establish all the station information before tear
down the aggregation queues, driver(at least iwlwifi driver) will reject the
stop aggregation queue request if station is not ready. But also need to make
sure the aggregation queues are tear down before waking up the queues, so
mac80211 will not sending frames with aggregation bit set.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:54 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 3f7c5c10e9 ath9k: Enable TIM timer interrupt only when needed.
The TIM timer interrupt is enabled even before the ACK of nullqos
is received which is unnecessary.

Also clean up the CONF_PS part of config callback properly for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:54 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 1a20034a73 ath9k: configure the beacon only if the STA is associated
beacons configuration SHOULD be done only if the STA is associated.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg 34e895075e mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep
Many drivers would like to sleep during station
addition and removal, and currently have a high
complexity there from not being able to.

This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and
sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead
of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and
the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to
fail.

The reason we didn't do this previously is that
the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the
RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep.
This patch will keep the station allocation in
that path, but moves adding the station to the
driver out of line. Since the addition can now
fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver
rejected -- in that case we still talk to the
station but never tell the driver about it in
the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be
a driver that has a low limit on the number of
stations and that cannot talk to any stations
that are not known to it, we need to do come up
with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs,
maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00