* valid in station mode only while @assoc is true and if also
* requested by %IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_PERIOD (cf. also hw conf
* @ps_dtim_period)
- * @timestamp: beacon timestamp
+ * @last_tsf: last beacon's/probe response's TSF timestamp (could be old
+ * as it may have been received during scanning long ago)
* @beacon_int: beacon interval
* @assoc_capability: capabilities taken from assoc resp
* @basic_rates: bitmap of basic rates, each bit stands for an
u8 dtim_period;
u16 beacon_int;
u16 assoc_capability;
- u64 timestamp;
+ u64 last_tsf;
u32 basic_rates;
int mcast_rate[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
u16 ht_operation_mode;
* used to indicate that a frame was already retried due to PS
* @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT: completely internal to mac80211,
* used to indicate frame should not be encrypted
- * @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE: This frame is a response to a poll
- * frame (PS-Poll or uAPSD) and should be sent although the station
- * is in powersave mode.
+ * @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER: This frame is a response to a poll
+ * frame (PS-Poll or uAPSD) or a non-bufferable MMPDU and must
+ * be sent although the station is in powersave mode.
* @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_MORE_FRAMES: More frames will be passed to the
* transmit function after the current frame, this can be used
* by drivers to kick the DMA queue only if unset or when the
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING = BIT(14),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRIED = BIT(15),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT = BIT(16),
- IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE = BIT(17),
+ IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER = BIT(17),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_MORE_FRAMES = BIT(18),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION = BIT(19),
/* hole at 20, use later */
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM | IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU | \
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED | IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK | \
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU | IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK | \
- IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE | IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE | \
+ IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE | IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER | \
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_MORE_FRAMES | IEEE80211_TX_CTL_LDPC | \
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_STBC | IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP)
* @RX_FLAG_HT: HT MCS was used and rate_idx is MCS index
* @RX_FLAG_40MHZ: HT40 (40 MHz) was used
* @RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI: Short guard interval was used
+ * @RX_FLAG_NO_SIGNAL_VAL: The signal strength value is not present.
+ * Valid only for data frames (mainly A-MPDU)
*/
enum mac80211_rx_flags {
RX_FLAG_MMIC_ERROR = 1<<0,
RX_FLAG_HT = 1<<9,
RX_FLAG_40MHZ = 1<<10,
RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI = 1<<11,
+ RX_FLAG_NO_SIGNAL_VAL = 1<<12,
};
/**
u8 count;
};
+/**
+ * enum ieee80211_vif_flags - virtual interface flags
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER: the device performs beacon filtering
+ * on this virtual interface to avoid unnecessary CPU wakeups
+ * @IEEE80211_VIF_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI: the device can do connection quality
+ * monitoring on this virtual interface -- i.e. it can monitor
+ * connection quality related parameters, such as the RSSI level and
+ * provide notifications if configured trigger levels are reached.
+ */
+enum ieee80211_vif_flags {
+ IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER = BIT(0),
+ IEEE80211_VIF_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI = BIT(1),
+};
+
/**
* struct ieee80211_vif - per-interface data
*
* @addr: address of this interface
* @p2p: indicates whether this AP or STA interface is a p2p
* interface, i.e. a GO or p2p-sta respectively
+ * @driver_flags: flags/capabilities the driver has for this interface,
+ * these need to be set (or cleared) when the interface is added
+ * or, if supported by the driver, the interface type is changed
+ * at runtime, mac80211 will never touch this field
* @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
* sizeof(void *).
*/
struct ieee80211_bss_conf bss_conf;
u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
bool p2p;
+ u32 driver_flags;
/* must be last */
u8 drv_priv[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(void *))));
};
SET_KEY, DISABLE_KEY,
};
+/**
+ * enum ieee80211_sta_state - station state
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST: station doesn't exist at all,
+ * this is a special state for add/remove transitions
+ * @IEEE80211_STA_NONE: station exists without special state
+ * @IEEE80211_STA_AUTH: station is authenticated
+ * @IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC: station is associated
+ * @IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED: station is authorized (802.1X)
+ */
+enum ieee80211_sta_state {
+ /* NOTE: These need to be ordered correctly! */
+ IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST,
+ IEEE80211_STA_NONE,
+ IEEE80211_STA_AUTH,
+ IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC,
+ IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED,
+};
+
/**
* struct ieee80211_sta - station table entry
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE:
* Hardware supports management frame protection (MFP, IEEE 802.11w).
*
- * @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER:
- * Hardware supports dropping of irrelevant beacon frames to
- * avoid waking up cpu.
- *
* @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_STATIC_SMPS:
* Hardware supports static spatial multiplexing powersave,
* ie. can turn off all but one chain even on HT connections
* When this flag is set, signaling beacon-loss will cause an immediate
* change to disassociated state.
*
- * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI:
- * Hardware can do connection quality monitoring - i.e. it can monitor
- * connection quality related parameters, such as the RSSI level and
- * provide notifications if configured trigger levels are reached.
- *
* @IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_PERIOD:
* This device needs to know the DTIM period for the BSS before
* associating.
* @IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW: The device handles TX A-MPDU session
* setup strictly in HW. mac80211 should not attempt to do this in
* software.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE: The device can do hw scan while
+ * being idle (i.e. mac80211 doesn't have to go idle-off during the
+ * the scan).
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0,
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK = 1<<11,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS = 1<<12,
IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE = 1<<13,
- IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER = 1<<14,
+ /* reuse bit 14 */
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_STATIC_SMPS = 1<<15,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_SMPS = 1<<16,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD = 1<<17,
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS = 1<<18,
IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR = 1<<19,
- IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI = 1<<20,
+ /* reuse bit 20 */
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK = 1<<21,
IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS = 1<<22,
IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW = 1<<23,
+ IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE = 1<<24,
};
/**
* way the host will only receive beacons where some relevant information
* (for example ERP protection or WMM settings) have changed.
*
- * Beacon filter support is advertised with the %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER
- * hardware capability. The driver needs to enable beacon filter support
+ * Beacon filter support is advertised with the %IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER
+ * interface capability. The driver needs to enable beacon filter support
* whenever power save is enabled, that is %IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set. When
* power save is enabled, the stack will not check for beacon loss and the
* driver needs to notify about loss of beacons with ieee80211_beacon_loss().
* the station sends a PS-Poll or a uAPSD trigger frame, mac80211
* will inform the driver of this with the @allow_buffered_frames
* callback; this callback is optional. mac80211 will then transmit
- * the frames as usual and set the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE
+ * the frames as usual and set the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER
* on each frame. The last frame in the service period (or the only
* response to a PS-Poll) also has %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP set to
* indicate that it ends the service period; as this frame must have
* When TX status is reported for this frame, the service period is
* marked has having ended and a new one can be started by the peer.
*
+ * Additionally, non-bufferable MMPDUs can also be transmitted by
+ * mac80211 with the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER set in them.
+ *
* Another race condition can happen on some devices like iwlwifi
* when there are frames queued for the station and it wakes up
* or polls; the frames that are already queued could end up being
IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL,
};
-/**
- * enum ieee80211_tx_sync_type - TX sync type
- * @IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_AUTH: sync TX for authentication
- * (and possibly also before direct probe)
- * @IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_ASSOC: sync TX for association
- * @IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_ACTION: sync TX for action frame
- * (not implemented yet)
- */
-enum ieee80211_tx_sync_type {
- IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_AUTH,
- IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_ASSOC,
- IEEE80211_TX_SYNC_ACTION,
-};
-
/**
* enum ieee80211_frame_release_type - frame release reason
* @IEEE80211_FRAME_RELEASE_PSPOLL: frame released for PS-Poll
* of the bss parameters has changed when a call is made. The callback
* can sleep.
*
- * @tx_sync: Called before a frame is sent to an AP/GO. In the GO case, the
- * driver should sync with the GO's powersaving so the device doesn't
- * transmit the frame while the GO is asleep. In the regular AP case
- * it may be used by drivers for devices implementing other restrictions
- * on talking to APs, e.g. due to regulatory enforcement or just HW
- * restrictions.
- * This function is called for every authentication, association and
- * action frame separately since applications might attempt to auth
- * with multiple APs before chosing one to associate to. If it returns
- * an error, the corresponding authentication, association or frame
- * transmission is aborted and reported as having failed. It is always
- * called after tuning to the correct channel.
- * The callback might be called multiple times before @finish_tx_sync
- * (but @finish_tx_sync will be called once for each) but in practice
- * this is unlikely to happen. It can also refuse in that case if the
- * driver cannot handle that situation.
- * This callback can sleep.
- * @finish_tx_sync: Called as a counterpart to @tx_sync, unless that returned
- * an error. This callback can sleep.
- *
* @prepare_multicast: Prepare for multicast filter configuration.
* This callback is optional, and its return value is passed
* to configure_filter(). This callback must be atomic.
* in AP mode, this callback will not be called when the flag
* %IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS is set. Must be atomic.
*
+ * @sta_state: Notifies low level driver about state transition of a
+ * station (which can be the AP, a client, IBSS/WDS/mesh peer etc.)
+ * This callback is mutually exclusive with @sta_add/@sta_remove.
+ * It must not fail for down transitions but may fail for transitions
+ * up the list of states.
+ * The callback can sleep.
+ *
* @conf_tx: Configure TX queue parameters (EDCF (aifs, cw_min, cw_max),
* bursting) for a hardware TX queue.
* Returns a negative error code on failure.
* @allow_buffered_frames: Prepare device to allow the given number of frames
* to go out to the given station. The frames will be sent by mac80211
* via the usual TX path after this call. The TX information for frames
- * released will also have the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE flag set
+ * released will also have the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER flag set
* and the last one will also have %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP set. In case
* frames from multiple TIDs are released and the driver might reorder
* them between the TIDs, it must set the %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP flag
struct ieee80211_bss_conf *info,
u32 changed);
- int (*tx_sync)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
- const u8 *bssid, enum ieee80211_tx_sync_type type);
- void (*finish_tx_sync)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
- struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
- const u8 *bssid,
- enum ieee80211_tx_sync_type type);
-
u64 (*prepare_multicast)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct netdev_hw_addr_list *mc_list);
void (*configure_filter)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_sta *sta);
void (*sta_notify)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
enum sta_notify_cmd, struct ieee80211_sta *sta);
+ int (*sta_state)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
+ struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
+ enum ieee80211_sta_state old_state,
+ enum ieee80211_sta_state new_state);
int (*conf_tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u16 queue,
const struct ieee80211_tx_queue_params *params);
*
* @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
*
- * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER and
+ * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER and
* %IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the
* hardware is not receiving beacons with this function.
*/
*
* @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
*
- * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER, and
+ * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER, and
* %IEEE80211_CONF_PS and %IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR are set, the driver
* needs to inform if the connection to the AP has been lost.
*
* @rssi_event: the RSSI trigger event type
* @gfp: context flags
*
- * When the %IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI is set, and a connection quality
+ * When the %IEEE80211_VIF_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI is set, and a connection quality
* monitoring is configured with an rssi threshold, the driver will inform
* whenever the rssi level reaches the threshold.
*/
* @hw: The hardware the algorithm is invoked for.
* @sband: The band this frame is being transmitted on.
* @bss_conf: the current BSS configuration
+ * @skb: the skb that will be transmitted, the control information in it needs
+ * to be filled in
* @reported_rate: The rate control algorithm can fill this in to indicate
* which rate should be reported to userspace as the current rate and
* used for rate calculations in the mesh network.
* RTS threshold
* @short_preamble: whether mac80211 will request short-preamble transmission
* if the selected rate supports it
- * @max_rate_idx: user-requested maximum rate (not MCS for now)
+ * @max_rate_idx: user-requested maximum (legacy) rate
* (deprecated; this will be removed once drivers get updated to use
* rate_idx_mask)
- * @rate_idx_mask: user-requested rate mask (not MCS for now)
- * @skb: the skb that will be transmitted, the control information in it needs
- * to be filled in
+ * @rate_idx_mask: user-requested (legacy) rate mask
+ * @rate_idx_mcs_mask: user-requested MCS rate mask
* @bss: whether this frame is sent out in AP or IBSS mode
*/
struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control {
bool rts, short_preamble;
u8 max_rate_idx;
u32 rate_idx_mask;
+ u8 rate_idx_mcs_mask[IEEE80211_HT_MCS_MASK_LEN];
bool bss;
};