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2014-12-17cfg80211: allow wiphy specific regdomain managementJonathan Doron1-1/+15
Add a new regulatory flag that allows a driver to manage regdomain changes/updates for its own wiphy. A self-managed wiphys only employs regulatory information obtained from the FW and driver and does not use other cfg80211 sources like beacon-hints, country-code IEs and hints from other devices on the same system. Conversely, a self-managed wiphy does not share its regulatory hints with other devices in the system. If a system contains several devices, one or more of which are self-managed, there might be contradictory regulatory settings between them. Usage of flag is generally discouraged. Only use it if the FW/driver is incompatible with non-locally originated hints. A new API lets the driver send a complete regdomain, to be applied on its wiphy only. After a wiphy-specific regdomain change takes place, usermode will get a new type of change notification. The regulatory core also takes care enforce regulatory restrictions, in case some interfaces are on forbidden channels. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Doron <jonathanx.doron@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-11cfg80211/mac80211: add wmm info to assoc eventEliad Peller1-1/+2
Userspace might need to know what queues are configured for uapsd (e.g. for setting proper default values in tspecs). Add this bitmap to the association event (inside wmm nested attribute) Add additional parameter to cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp, and update its callers. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-26cfg80211: send events when devices are added/removedJohannes Berg1-1/+2
We're currently sending NEW_WIPHY events for renames (which is a bit odd, but now can't be changed), but also send them for really new devices that register. Also send DEL_WIPHY events when a device is removed, the event ID for this was already reserved. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-13Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville1-4/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
2014-02-06cfg80211: send scan results from work queueJohannes Berg1-4/+4
Due to the previous commit, when a scan finishes, it is in theory possible to hit the following sequence: 1. interface starts being removed 2. scan is cancelled by driver and cfg80211 is notified 3. scan done work is scheduled 4. interface is removed completely, rdev->scan_req is freed, event sent to userspace but scan done work remains pending 5. new scan is requested on another virtual interface 6. scan done work runs, freeing the still-running scan To fix this situation, hang on to the scan done message and block new scans while that is the case, and only send the message from the work function, regardless of whether the scan_req is already freed from interface removal. This makes step 5 above impossible and changes step 6 to be 5. scan done work runs, sending the scan done message As this can't work for wext, so we send the message immediately, but this shouldn't be an issue since we still return -EBUSY. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-05nl80211: send event when AP operation is stoppedJohannes Berg1-0/+2
There are a few cases, e.g. suspend, where an AP interface is stopped by the kernel rather than by userspace request, most commonly when suspending. To let userspace know about this, send the NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP command as an event every time an AP interface is stopped. This also happens when userspace did in fact request the AP stop, but that's not a problem. For full-MAC drivers this may need to be extended to also cover cases where the device stopped the AP operation for some reason, this a bit more complicated because then all cfg80211 state also needs to be reset; such API is not part of this patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25cfg80211/mac80211: DFS setup chandef for cac eventJanusz Dziedzic1-1/+1
To report channel width correctly we have to send correct channel parameters from mac80211 when calling cfg80211_cac_event(). This is required in case of using channel width higher than 20MHz and we have to set correct dfs channel state after CAC (NL80211_DFS_AVAILABLE). Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-23cfg80211: add flags to cfg80211_rx_mgmt()Vladimir Kondratiev1-1/+1
Add flags intended to report various auxiliary information and introduce the NL80211_RXMGMT_FLAG_ANSWERED flag to report that the frame was already answered by the device. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> [REPLIED->ANSWERED, reword commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-07-16cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce supportAmitkumar Karwar1-0/+2
In most cases, host that receives IPv4 and IPv6 multicast/broadcast packets does not do anything with these packets. Therefore the reception of these unwanted packets causes unnecessary processing and power consumption. Packet coalesce feature helps to reduce number of received interrupts to host by buffering these packets in firmware/hardware for some predefined time. Received interrupt will be generated when one of the following events occur. a) Expiration of hardware timer whose expiration time is set to maximum coalescing delay of matching coalesce rule. b) Coalescing buffer in hardware reaches it's limit. c) Packet doesn't match any of the configured coalesce rules. This patch adds set/get configuration support for packet coalesce. User needs to configure following parameters for creating a coalesce rule. a) Maximum coalescing delay b) List of packet patterns which needs to be matched c) Condition for coalescence. pattern 'match' or 'no match' Multiple such rules can be created. This feature needs to be advertised during driver initialization. Drivers are supposed to do required firmware/hardware settings based on user configuration. Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [fix kernel-doc, change free function, fix copy/paste error] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-03-06cfg80211: move exported event functions into nl80211Johannes Berg1-68/+0
This is the sort of thing gcc's LTO could do, but since we don't have that yet we can also do it manually. The advantage is reduced code, both source and binary, e.g. on x86-64 text data bss dec hex filename 442825 56230 776 499831 7a077 cfg80211.ko (before) 441585 56230 776 498591 79b9f cfg80211.ko (after) a reduction of ~1k. But in order to not complicate the code move only those functions that are simple wrappers, not those that have functionality of their own. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15nl80211/cfg80211: add radar detection command/eventSimon Wunderlich1-0/+7
Add new NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT, which starts the Channel Availability Check (CAC). This command will also notify the usermode about events (CAC finished, CAC aborted, radar detected, NOP finished). Once radar detection has started it should continuously monitor for radars as long as the channel is active. This patch enables DFS for AP mode in nl80211/cfg80211. Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> [remove WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_RADAR_DETECT again -- my mistake] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26cfg80211: pass a channel definition structJohannes Berg1-2/+2
Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this will change. Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the new structure all the time, which will change. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel typeJohannes Berg1-3/+1
As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it. This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations right now. Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code by removing the ability to use different channel types. Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if we extend it again later (with the needed capability flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-18cfg80211/nl80211: Notify connection request failure in AP modePandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu1-0/+5
In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON. Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17cfg80211: support TX error rate CQMThomas Pedersen1-0/+5
Let the user configure serveral TX error conection quality monitoring parameters: % error rate, survey interval, and # of attempted packets. On exceeding the TX failure rate over the given interval, the driver will send a CQM notify event with the actual TX failure rate and packets attempted. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12nl80211: move scan API to wdevJohannes Berg1-3/+3
The new P2P Device will have to be able to scan for P2P search, so move scanning to use struct wireless_dev instead of struct net_device. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIsJohannes Berg1-5/+5
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will be able to use the wdev identifier only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-04-12cfg80211: add channel switch notify eventThomas Pedersen1-0/+4
The firmware may decide to switch channels while already beaconing, e.g. in response to a cfg80211 connect request on a different vif. Add this event to notify userspace when an AP or GO interface has successfully migrated to a new channel, so it can update its configuration accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-07cfg80211/mac80211: report signal strength for mgmt framesJohannes Berg1-1/+2
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to frames that are received via nl80211's various frame APIs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-10cfg80211: add event for unexpected 4addr framesJohannes Berg1-0/+2
The frames are used by AP/STA WDS mode, and hostapd needs to know when such a frame was received to set up the VLAN appropriately to allow using it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-10nl80211: allow subscribing to unexpected class3 framesJohannes Berg1-0/+3
To implement AP mode without monitor interfaces we need to be able to send a deauth to stations that send frames without being associated. Enable this by adding a new nl80211 event for such frames that an application can subscribe to. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-20cfg80211/nl80211: Add PMKSA caching candidate eventJouni Malinen1-0/+4
When the driver (or most likely firmware) decides which AP to use for roaming based on internal scan result processing, user space needs to be notified of PMKSA caching candidates to allow RSN pre-authentication to be used. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-06cfg80211/nl80211: support GTK rekey offloadJohannes Berg1-0/+4
In certain circumstances, like WoWLAN scenarios, devices may implement (partial) GTK rekeying on the device to avoid waking up the host for it. In order to successfully go through GTK rekeying, the KEK, KCK and the replay counter are required. Add API to let the supplicant hand the parameters to the driver which may store it for future GTK rekey operations. Note that, of course, if GTK rekeying is done by the device, the EAP frame must not be passed up to userspace, instead a rekey event needs to be sent to let userspace update its replay counter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scansLuciano Coelho1-0/+4
Implement new functionality for scheduled scan offload. With this feature we can scan automatically at certain intervals. The idea is that the hardware can perform scan automatically and filter on desired results without waking up the host unnecessarily. Add NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN commands to the nl80211 interface. When results are available they are reported by NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_RESULTS events. The userspace is informed when the scheduled scan has stopped with a NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_STOPPED event, which can be triggered either by the driver or by a call to NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-13nl80211: New notification to discover mesh peer candidates.Javier Cardona1-0/+4
Notify userspace when a beacon/presp is received from a suitable mesh peer candidate for whom no sta information exists. Userspace can then decide to create a sta info for the candidate. If userspace is not ready to authenticate the peer right away, it can create the sta info with the authenticated flag unset and set it later. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30cfg80211: Add nl80211 event for deletion of a station entryJouni Malinen1-0/+3
Indicate an NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION event when a station entry in mac80211 is deleted to match with the NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION event that is used when the entry was added. This is needed, e.g., to allow user space to remove a peer from RSN IBSS Authenticator state machine to avoid re-authentication and re-keying delays when the peer is not reachable anymore. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-16nl80211: Add notification for dropped Deauth/DisassocJouni Malinen1-0/+6
Add a new notification to indicate that a received, unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame was dropped due to management frame protection being in use. This notification is needed to allow user space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) to implement SA Query procedure to recover from association state mismatch between an AP and STA. This is needed to avoid getting stuck in non-working state when MFP (IEEE 802.11w) is used and a protected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame is dropped for any reason. After that, the station would silently discard any unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame that could be indicating that the AP does not have association for the STA (when the Reason Code would be 6 or 7). IEEE Std 802.11w-2009, 11.13 describes this recovery mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-25cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet lossJohannes Berg1-0/+4
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events to notify about packet loss for specific stations (which could be the AP for the managed mode case). Since the threshold might be determined by the driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be passed out of the driver to userspace in the event. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processingJohannes Berg1-7/+7
Allow userspace to register for more than just action frames by giving the frame subtype, and make it possible to use this in various modes as well. With some tweaks and some added functionality this will, in the future, also be usable in AP mode and be able to replace the cooked monitor interface currently used in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211Juuso Oikarinen1-0/+6
Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring events. Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost. An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity. The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that arises. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-16cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen1-0/+8
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29mac80211/cfg80211: add station eventsJohannes Berg1-0/+4
When, for instance, a new IBSS peer is found, userspace wants to be notified. Add events for all new stations that mac80211 learns about. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29cfg80211: add remain-on-channel commandJouni Malinen1-0/+11
Add new commands for requesting the driver to remain awake on a specified channel for the specified amount of time (and another command to cancel such an operation). This can be used to implement userspace-controlled off-channel operations, like Public Action frame exchange on another channel than the operation channel. The off-channel operation should behave similarly to scan, i.e. the local station (if associated) moves into power save mode to request the AP to buffer frames for it and then moves to the other channel to allow the off-channel operation to be completed. The duration parameter can be used to request enough time to receive a response from the target station. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix lockingJohannes Berg1-1/+1
Over time, a lot of locking issues have crept into the smarts of cfg80211, so e.g. scan completion can race against a new scan, IBSS join can race against leaving an IBSS, etc. Introduce a new per-interface lock that protects most of the per-interface data that we need to keep track of, and sprinkle assertions about that lock everywhere. Some things now need to be offloaded to work structs so that we don't require being able to sleep in functions the drivers call. The exception to that are the MLME callbacks (rx_auth etc.) that currently only mac80211 calls because it was easier to do that there instead of in cfg80211, and future drivers implementing those calls will, if they ever exist, probably need to use a similar scheme like mac80211 anyway... In order to be able to handle _deauth and _disassoc properly, introduce a cookie passed to it that will determine locking requirements. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: connect/disconnect APISamuel Ortiz1-0/+13
This patch introduces the cfg80211 connect/disconnect API. The goal here is to run the AUTH and ASSOC steps in one call. This is needed for some fullmac cards that run both steps directly from the target, after the host driver sends a connect command. Additionally, all the new crypto parameters for connect() are now also valid for associate() -- although associate requires the IEs to be used, the information can be useful for drivers and should be given. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: use proper allocation flagsJohannes Berg1-7/+7
Instead of hardcoding GFP_ATOMIC everywhere, add a new function parameter that gets the flags from the caller. Obviously then I need to update all callers (all of them in mac80211), and it turns out that now it's ok to use GFP_KERNEL in almost all places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10nl80211: clean up function definitionsJohannes Berg1-29/+29
I don't like the 'extern' keyword much when it's not necessary, it makes lines rather long. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: issue netlink notification when scan startsJohannes Berg1-0/+2
To ease multiple apps working together smoothly, send a notification when a scan is started. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23nl80211: Add event for authentication/association timeoutJouni Malinen1-0/+6
SME needs to be notified when the authentication or association attempt times out and MLME has stopped processing in order to allow the SME to decide what to do next. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS APIJohannes Berg1-0/+4
This adds IBSS API along with (preliminary) wext handlers. The wext handlers can only do IBSS so you need to call them from your own wext handlers if the mode is IBSS. The nl80211 API requires * an SSID * a channel (frequency) for the case that a new IBSS has to be created It optionally supports * a flag to fix the channel * a fixed BSSID The cfg80211 code also takes care to leave the IBSS before the netdev is set down. If wireless extensions are used, it also caches values when the interface is down and instructs the driver to join when the interface is set up. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23cfg80211: send regulatory beacon hint events to userspaceLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+5
This informs userspace when a change has occured on a world roaming wiphy's channel which has lifted some restrictions due to a regulatory beacon hint. Because this is now sent to userspace through the regulatory multicast group we remove the debug prints we used to use as they are no longer necessary. Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23nl80211: Add Michael MIC failure eventJouni Malinen1-0/+5
Define a new nl80211 event, NL80211_CMD_MICHAEL_MIC_FAILURE, to be used to notify user space about locally detected Michael MIC failures. This matches with the MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication() primitive. Since we do not actually have TSC in the skb anymore when mac80211_ev_michael_mic_failure() is called, that function is changed to take in the TSC as an optional parameter instead of as a requirement to include the TSC after the hdr field (which we did not really follow). For now, TSC is not included in the events from mac80211, but it could be added at some point. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23nl80211: Generate deauth/disassoc event for locally generated framesJouni Malinen1-6/+6
Previously, nl80211 mlme events were generated only for received deauthentication and disassociation frames. We need to do the same for locally generated ones in order to let applications know that we disconnected (e.g., when AP does not reply to a probe). Rename the nl80211 and cfg80211 functions (s/rx_//) to make it clearer that they are used for both received and locally generated frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-28nl80211: Event notifications for MLME eventsJouni Malinen1-0/+12
Add new nl80211 event notifications (and a new multicast group, "mlme") for informing user space about received and processed Authentication, (Re)Association Response, Deauthentication, and Disassociation frames in station and IBSS modes (i.e., MLME SAP interface primitives MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm, MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indicate, and MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication). The event data is encapsulated as the 802.11 management frame since we already have the frame in that format and it includes all the needed information. This is the initial step in providing MLME SAP interface for authentication and association with nl80211. In other words, kernel code will act as the MLME and a user space application can control it as the SME. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-28cfg80211/nl80211: remove usage of CONFIG_NL80211Reinette Chatre1-26/+0
The scan capability added to cfg80211/nl80211 introduced a dependency on nl80211 by cfg80211. We can thus no longer have just cfg80211 without nl80211. Specifically, cfg80211_scan_done() calls nl80211_send_scan_aborted() or nl80211_send_scan_done(). Now we remove the option for user to select nl80211. It will always be compiled if user selects cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-17cfg80211: add regulatory netlink multicast groupLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+5
This allows us to send to userspace "regulatory" events. For now we just send an event when we change regulatory domains. We also notify userspace when devices are using their own custom world roaming regulatory domains. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27wireless: fix for CONFIG_NL80211=nRandy Dunlap1-0/+4
Add empty function for case of CONFIG_NL80211=n: net/wireless/scan.c:35: error: implicit declaration of function 'nl80211_send_scan_aborted' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211/nl80211: scanning (and mac80211 update to use it)Johannes Berg1-0/+8
This patch adds basic scan capability to cfg80211/nl80211 and changes mac80211 to use it. The BSS list that cfg80211 maintains is made driver-accessible with a private area in each BSS struct, but mac80211 doesn't yet use it. That's another large project. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-11[NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211Johannes Berg1-0/+24
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>