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15 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Adrian Bunk
d9357136ac the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:02:31 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
37659ff8e1 mac80211: fix mesh endianness sparse warnings and unmark it as broken
This patch fixes all the mesh related endianness warnings reported by sparse. As
they were the reason why Johannes marked mesh as BROKEN, that flag has been
removed.

Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 16:40:48 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5c142e8db4 mac80211: clarify mesh Kconfig
This clarifies that the mesh networking code is currently
based on Draft 1.08 of the 802.11 Mesh Networking amendment.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:44 -05:00
Johannes Berg
2f5ce793c0 mac80211: enable mesh in Kconfig
Currently marked BROKEN because of endianness problems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:43 -05:00
Michael Buesch
03ac7a8141 mac80211: Is not EXPERIMENTAL anymore
Remove the EXPERIMENTAL dependency, as the existing mac80211
features are stable.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-05 14:35:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6feeb8aad7 mac80211: make alignment warning optional
Driver authors should be aware of the alignment requirements, but
not everybody cares about the warning. This patch makes it depend
on a new Kconfig symbol MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT which can
be enabled regardless of MAC80211_DEBUG and is recommended for
driver authors (only). This also restricts the warning to data
packets so other packets need not be realigned to not trigger the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-01 16:12:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4b475898ec mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection
This patch changes mac80211's Kconfig/Makefile to:
 * select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control
   algorithm as default
 * always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,
   building those that are selected 'y' into the mac80211
   module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)
 * force the default rate control algorithm to be built into
   mac80211

It also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again
with MODULE_LICENSE etc.

Only if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select "NONE" as default
which will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work
only when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).

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>
2008-01-28 15:01:02 -08:00
John W. Linville
c40896de50 net/mac80211/Kconfig: whitespace corrections
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:55 -08:00
Stefano Brivio
c21b39aca4 mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default
This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:41 -08:00
Mattias Nissler
ad01837593 mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm
Add a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the
percentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and
uses its output to control the TX rate.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:18 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky
82b3cad942 mac80211: adding MAC80211_HT_DEBUG config variable
This patch adds MAC80211_HT_DEBUG config variable
to separate HT debug features

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:29 -08:00
Johannes Berg
d52a60ad38 mac80211: fix MAC80211_RCSIMPLE Kconfig
I meant for this to be selectable only with EMBEDDED, not enabled only
with EMBEDDED. This does it that way. Sorry.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 22:01:42 -08:00
Johannes Berg
ac71c691e6 mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in
Too frequently people do not have module autoloading enabled
or fail to install the rate control module correctly, hence
their hardware probing fails due to no rate control algorithm
being available. This makes the 'simple' algorithm built into
the mac80211 module unless EMBEDDED is enabled in which case
it can be disabled (eg. if the wanted driver requires another
rate control algorithm.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 21:59:23 -08:00
Jiri Benc
e9f207f0ff [MAC80211]: Add debugfs attributes.
Export various mac80211 internal variables through debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-05 11:46:38 -07:00
Jiri Benc
f0706e828e [MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.
Add mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-05 11:45:53 -07:00