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Author SHA1 Message Date
Arik Nemtsov bed766bd4c mac80211: disable VHT for TDLS
TDLS VHT support requires some more information elements during setup.
While these are not there, mask out the peer's VHT capabilities so that
VHT rates are not mistakenly used.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-07-21 12:14:04 +02:00
Johannes Berg 4a817aa78f mac80211: allow VHT with peers not capable of 40MHz
There are two (related) issues with this.

One case, reported by Michal, is related to hostap: it unsets the
20/40 capability bit for stations that associate when it's in 20
MHz mode.

The other case, reported by Eyal, is that some APs like Netgear
R6300v2 and probably others based on the BCM4360 chipset can be
configured for doing VHT at 20Mhz. In this case the beacon has
a VHT IE but the HT cap indicates transmitter only support 20Mhz.

In both of these cases, we currently avoid VHT and use only HT
this means we can't use the highest rates (MCS8), so fixing this
leads to throughput improvements.

Reported-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Reported-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-09 09:56:53 +02:00
Marek Kwaczynski b1bce14a79 mac80211: update opmode when adding new station
Update the operating mode field is needed when an association
request contains the operating mode notification element and
it's not just changed later on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Marek Kwaczynski <marek.kwaczynski@tieto.com>
[clarify commit log, comments & fix whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-05 14:03:23 +01:00
Eyal Shapira fbdd90ea83 mac80211: enable easier manipulation of VHT beamforming caps
Introduce shift and mask defines for beamformee STS cap and number
of sounding dimensions cap as these can take any 3 bit value.
While at it also cleanup an unrequired parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:52:01 +01:00
Eliad Peller 5eb7906b47 ieee80211: fix vht cap definitions
VHT_CAP_BEAMFORMER_ANTENNAS cap is actually defined in the draft as
VHT_CAP_BEAMFORMEE_STS_MAX, and its size is 3 bits long.

VHT_CAP_SOUNDING_DIMENSIONS is also 3 bits long.

Fix the definitions and change the cap masking accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-01 12:17:08 +02:00
Ilan Peer 38745c7414 mac80211: Fix VHT bandwidth change event
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-13 11:58:47 +02:00
Johannes Berg 55d942f424 mac80211: restrict peer's VHT capabilities to own
Implement restricting peer VHT capabilities to the device's own
capabilities. This is useful when a single driver supports more
than one device and the devices have different capabilities
(often they will differ in the number of spatial streams), but
in particular is also necessary for VHT capability overrides to
work correctly -- otherwise it'd be possible to e.g. advertise,
due to overrides, that TX-STBC is not supported, but then still
use it to TX to the AP because it supports RX-STBC.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:03 +01:00
Johannes Berg dd5ecfeac8 mac80211: support VHT capability overrides
Support the cfg80211 API to override VHT capabilities
on association.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:35:48 +01:00
Johannes Berg 4a3cb702b0 mac80211: constify IE parsing
Make all the parsed IE pointers const, and propagate
the change to all the users etc.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:39 +01:00
Johannes Berg bee7f58699 mac80211: handle operating mode notif in beacon/assoc response
In beacons and association response frames an AP may include an
operating mode notification element to advertise changes in the
number of spatial streams it can receive. Handle this using the
existing function that handles the action frame, but only handle
NSS changes, not bandwidth changes which aren't allowed here.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:34 +01:00
Johannes Berg 0af83d3df5 mac80211: handle VHT operating mode notification
Handle the operating mode notification action frame.
When the supported streams or the bandwidth change
let the driver and rate control algorithm know.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:32 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8921d04e8d mac80211: track number of spatial streams
With VHT, a station can change the number of spatial
streams it can receive on the fly, not unlike spatial
multiplexing in HT. Prepare for that by tracking the
maximum number of spatial streams it can receive when
the connection is established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:31 +01:00
Johannes Berg e1a0c6b3a4 mac80211: stop toggling IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40
For VHT, many more bandwidth changes are possible. As a first
step, stop toggling the IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40 flag
in the HT capabilities and instead introduce a bandwidth field
indicating the currently usable bandwidth to transmit to the
station. Of course, make all drivers use it.

To achieve this, make ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() get
the station as an argument, rather than the new capabilities,
so it can set up the new bandwidth field.

If the station is a VHT station and VHT bandwidth is in use,
also set the bandwidth accordingly.

Doing this allows us to get rid of the supports_40mhz flag as
the HT capabilities now reflect the true capability instead of
the current setting.

While at it, also fix ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() to not
ignore HT cap overrides when MCS TX isn't supported (not that it
really happens...)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:30 +01:00
Johannes Berg 4a34215ef7 mac80211: pass station to ieee80211_vht_cap_ie_to_sta_vht_cap
Like with HT, make things a bit simpler in future patches by
passing the station to ieee80211_vht_cap_ie_to_sta_vht_cap()
instead of the vht_cap pointer. Also disable VHT here if HT
isn't supported.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:29 +01:00
Mahesh Palivela 818255ea47 mac80211: VHT peer STA caps
Save the AP's VHT capabilities (in managed
mode) and make them available to the driver
in the station information.

Unlike HT capabilities, they aren't restricted
to the common capabilities, so drivers must be
aware of their own capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>
[fix endian conversion bug ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:14 +02:00