use SWBA (software beacon alert) interrupts to keep track of the next beacon
time und check if a HW merge (automatic TSF update) has happened on every
received beacon with the same BSSID.
this is necessary because the atheros hardware will silently update the local
TSF in IBSS mode, but not its beacon timers. if the TSF is ahead of the beacon
timers no beacons are sent until the timers wrap around (typically after about
1 minute).
this solution is not very nice, since we have to look into every beacon, but
there is apparently no other way to detect HW merges.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
the beacon interval is passed by mac80211 in TU already, so we can directly use
it without conversion. also update the comments about TU (1 TU is defined by
802.11 as 1024usec).
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h: Changes-licensed-under: ISC
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.
This has two advantages:
* removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
for working with network namespaces and performance
* allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
having to allocate own lists/hash tables
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
add ath5k wireless driver
Portions of this driver are covered by one or both of the ISC and
3-clause BSD licenses. Specific license information is cited at the top
of each file.
Acked-by and Signed-off-by information is collected from individual
patches as collected in the wireless-2.6 tree prior to upstream
submission.
Acked-by: Matthew W. S. Bell <mentor@madwifi.org>
Acked-by: Michael Taylor <mike.taylor@apprion.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Karen Sandler <karen@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Norwood <norwood@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <fontana@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Meis <meis@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
