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David S. Miller
6332178d91 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
2008-12-23 17:56:23 -08:00
Olga Kornievskaia
61054b14d5 nfsd: support callbacks with gss flavors
This patch adds server-side support for callbacks other than AUTH_SYS.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:19:00 -05:00
Olga Kornievskaia
608207e888 rpc: pass target name down to rpc level on callbacks
The rpc client needs to know the principal that the setclientid was done
as, so it can tell gssd who to authenticate to.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:17:40 -05:00
Olga Kornievskaia
68e76ad0ba nfsd: pass client principal name in rsc downcall
Two principals are involved in krb5 authentication: the target, who we
authenticate *to* (normally the name of the server, like
nfs/server.citi.umich.edu@CITI.UMICH.EDU), and the source, we we
authenticate *as* (normally a user, like bfields@UMICH.EDU)

In the case of NFSv4 callbacks, the target of the callback should be the
source of the client's setclientid call, and the source should be the
nfs server's own principal.

Therefore we allow svcgssd to pass down the name of the principal that
just authenticated, so that on setclientid we can store that principal
name with the new client, to be used later on callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:17:15 -05:00
\"J. Bruce Fields\
c381060869 rpc: add an rpc_pipe_open method
We want to transition to a new gssd upcall which is text-based and more
easily extensible.

To simplify upgrades, as well as testing and debugging, it will help if
we can upgrade gssd (to a version which understands the new upcall)
without having to choose at boot (or module-load) time whether we want
the new or the old upcall.

We will do this by providing two different pipes: one named, as
currently, after the mechanism (normally "krb5"), and supporting the
old upcall.  One named "gssd" and supporting the new upcall version.

We allow gssd to indicate which version it supports by its choice of
which pipe to open.

As we have no interest in supporting *simultaneous* use of both
versions, we'll forbid opening both pipes at the same time.

So, add a new pipe_open callback to the rpc_pipefs api, which the gss
code can use to track which pipes have been open, and to refuse opens of
incompatible pipes.

We only need this to be called on the first open of a given pipe.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:08:32 -05:00
Benny Halevy
c977a2ef40 sunrpc: get rid of rpc_rqst.rq_bufsize
rq_bufsize is not used.

Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <Mike.Sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:13 -05:00
Peter Staubach
64672d55d9 optimize attribute timeouts for "noac" and "actimeo=0"
Hi.

I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes.  It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)

In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it.  It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo].  The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo).  With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.

This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case.  However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.

    Thanx...

        ps

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
dc0b027dfa NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmode
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
bd7bf9d540 NFSv4: Convert delegation->type field to fmode_t
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:53 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
95d35cb4c4 NFSv4: Remove nfs_client->cl_sem
Now that we're using the flags to indicate state that needs to be
recovered, as well as having implemented proper refcounting and spinlocking
on the state and open_owners, we can get rid of nfs_client->cl_sem. The
only remaining case that was dubious was the file locking, and that case is
now covered by the nfsi->rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:45 -05:00
Chuck Lever
0cb2659b81 NLM: allow lockd requests from an unprivileged port
If the admin has specified the "noresvport" option for an NFS mount
point, the kernel's NFS client uses an unprivileged source port for
the main NFS transport.  The kernel's lockd client should use an
unprivileged port in this case as well.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:38 -05:00
Chuck Lever
d740351bf0 NFS: add "[no]resvport" mount option
The standard default security setting for NFS is AUTH_SYS.  An NFS
client connects to NFS servers via a privileged source port and a
fixed standard destination port (2049).  The client sends raw uid and
gid numbers to identify users making NFS requests, and the server
assumes an appropriate authority on the client has vetted these
values because the source port is privileged.

On Linux, by default in-kernel RPC services use a privileged port in
the range between 650 and 1023 to avoid using source ports of well-
known IP services.  Using such a small range limits the number of NFS
mount points and the number of unique NFS servers to which a client
can connect concurrently.

An NFS client can use unprivileged source ports to expand the range of
source port numbers, allowing more concurrent server connections and
more NFS mount points.  Servers must explicitly allow NFS connections
from unprivileged ports for this to work.

In the past, bumping the value of the sunrpc.max_resvport sysctl on
the client would permit the NFS client to use unprivileged ports.
Bumping this setting also changes the maximum port number used by
other in-kernel RPC services, some of which still required a port
number less than 1023.

This is exacerbated by the way source port numbers are chosen by the
Linux RPC client, which starts at the top of the range and works
downwards.  It means that bumping the maximum means all RPC services
requesting a source port will likely get an unprivileged port instead
of a privileged one.

Changing this setting effects all NFS mount points on a client.  A
sysadmin could not selectively choose which mount points would use
non-privileged ports and which could not.

Lastly, this mechanism of expanding the limit on the number of NFS
mount points was entirely undocumented.

To address the need for the NFS client to use a large range of source
ports without interfering with the activity of other in-kernel RPC
services, we introduce a new NFS mount option.  This option explicitly
tells only the NFS client to use a non-privileged source port when
communicating with the NFS server for one specific mount point.

This new mount option is called "resvport," like the similar NFS mount
option on FreeBSD and Mac OS X.  A sister patch for nfs-utils will be
submitted that documents this new option in nfs(5).

The default setting for this new mount option requires the NFS client
to use a privileged port, as before.  Explicitly specifying the
"noresvport" mount option allows the NFS client to use an unprivileged
source port for this mount point when connecting to the NFS server
port.

This mount option is supported only for text-based NFS mounts.

[ Sidebar: it is widely known that security mechanisms based on the
  use of privileged source ports are ineffective.  However, the NFS
  client can combine the use of unprivileged ports with the use of
  secure authentication mechanisms, such as Kerberos.  This allows a
  large number of connections and mount points while ensuring a useful
  level of security.

  Eventually we may change the default setting for this option
  depending on the security flavor used for the mount.  For example,
  if the mount is using only AUTH_SYS, then the default setting will
  be "resvport;" if the mount is using a strong security flavor such
  as krb5, the default setting will be "noresvport." ]

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
[Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com: Fixed a bug whereby nfs4_init_client()
was being called with incorrect arguments.]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:37 -05:00
Chuck Lever
146ec944bb NFS: Move declaration of nfs_mount() to fs/nfs/internal.h
Clean up:  The nfs_mount() function is not to be used outside of the
NFS client.  Move its public declaration to fs/nfs/internal.h.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:34 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
88a9fe8cae SUNRPC: Remove the last remnant of the BKL...
Somehow, this escaped the previous purge. There should be no need to keep
any extra locks in the XDR callbacks.

The NFS client XDR code only writes into private objects, whereas all reads
of shared objects are confined to fields that do not change, such as
filehandles...

Ditto for lockd, the NFSv2/v3 client mount code, and rpcbind.

The nfsd XDR code may require the BKL, but since it does a synchronous RPC
call from a thread that already holds the lock, that issue is moot.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:31 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
bed4f13065 Merge branch 'x86/irq' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:30:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bf8bd66d05 Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86/irq
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic.c
2008-12-23 16:24:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f650a67235 perfcounters: add PERF_COUNT_BUS_CYCLES
Generalize "bus cycles" hw events - and map them to CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref
on x86. (which is a good enough approximation)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8fe91e61cd perfcounters: remove ->nr_inherited
Impact: remove dead code

nr_inherited was not maintained correctly (not decremented) - and also
not used - remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95cdd2e785 perfcounters: enable lowlevel pmc code to schedule counters
Allow lowlevel ->enable() op to return an error if a counter can not be
added. This can be used to handle counter constraints.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
78b6084c90 perfcounters: fix init context lock
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
eef6cbf584 perfcounters: pull inherited counters
Change counter inheritance from a 'push' to a 'pull' model: instead of
child tasks pushing their final counts to the parent, reuse the wait4
infrastructure to pull counters as child tasks are exit-processed,
much like how cutime/cstime is collected.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
aa9c4c0f96 perfcounters: fix task clock counter
Impact: fix per task clock counter precision

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7671581f16 perfcounters: hw ops rename
Impact: rename field names

Shorten them.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
eb2b861810 x86, perfcounters: prepare for fixed-mode PMCs
Impact: refactor the x86 code for fixed-mode PMCs

Extend the data structures and rename the existing facilities
to allow for a 'generic' versus 'fixed' counter distinction.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8fb9331391 perfcounters: remove warnings
Impact: remove debug checks

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:08 +01:00
Kay Sievers
160bbab300 [MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-12-23 10:00:14 +00:00
Neil Horman
908a7a16b8 net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.
When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device
struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now
vestigual net_device structure parameter.  This patch cleans up that api by
properly removing it..

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22 20:43:12 -08:00
David Vrabel
a01777ecf2 uwb: remove unused include/linux/uwb/debug.h
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
2008-12-22 18:30:29 +00:00
Yevgeny Petrilin
b8dd786f94 mlx4_core: Add support for multiple completion event vectors
When using MSI-X mode, create a completion event queue for each CPU.
Report the number of completion EQs in a new struct mlx4_caps member,
num_comp_vectors, and extend the mlx4_cq_alloc() interface with a
vector parameter so that consumers can specify which completion EQ
should be used to report events for the CQ being created.

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-12-22 07:15:03 -08:00
Magnus Damm
8564557a03 video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb deferred io support
This patch adds sh_mobile_lcdcfb deferred io support for SYS panels.

The LCDC hardware block managed by the sh_mobile_lcdcfb driver supports
RGB or SYS panel configurations. SYS panels come with an external display
controller that is resposible for refreshing the actual LCD panel. RGB
panels are controlled directly by the LCDC and they need to be refreshed
by the LCDC hardware.

In the case of SYS panels we can save some power by configuring the LCDC
hardware block in one-shot mode. In this one-shot mode panel refresh is
managed by software. This works well together with deferred io since it
allows us to stop clocks for most of the time and only enable clocks when
we actually want to trigger an update. When there is no fbdev activity
the clocks are kept stopped which allows us to deep sleep.

The refresh rate in deferred io mode is set using platform data. The same
platform data can also be used to disable deferred io mode.

As with other deferred io frame buffers user space code should use fsync()
on the frame buffer device to trigger an update.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-12-22 18:44:48 +09:00
Paul Mundt
209aa4fdc3 fb: SH-5 uses __raw I/O accessors now also, drop the special casing.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
Lachlan McIlroy
27a0464a6c [XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

	fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-22 17:34:26 +11:00
Don Skidmore
f4314e815e net: add DCNA attribute to the BCN interface for DCB
Adds the Backward Congestion Notification Address (BCNA) attribute to the
Backward Congestion Notification (BCN) interface for Data Center Bridging
(DCB), which was missing.  Receive the BCNA attribute in the ixgbe driver.
The BCNA attribute is for a switch to inform the endstation about the physical
port identification in order to support BCN on aggregated links.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W Multanen <eric.w.multanen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2008-12-21 20:10:29 -08:00
Don Skidmore
1486a61ebc net: fix DCB setstate to return success/failure
Data Center Bridging (DCB) had no way to know if setstate had failed in the
driver.  This patch enables dcb netlink code to handle the status for the DCB
setstate interface.  Likewise it allows the driver to return a failed status
if MSI-X isn't enabled.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W Multanen <eric.w.multanen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-21 20:09:50 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
3ddeb912f4 ftrace: enable format arguments checking
Impact: broaden gcc printf format checks for ftrace_printk()

format arguments checking for ftrace_printk() is __printf(1, 2),
not __printf(1, 0).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-21 09:46:45 +01:00
Anton Vorontsov
749820928a of/gpio: Implement of_gpio_count()
This function is used to count how many GPIOs are specified for
a device node.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-21 14:21:14 +11:00
Takashi Iwai
6a8436419d Merge branch 'topic/ca0106-capture-no-44khz' into topic/ca0106 2008-12-20 23:42:55 +01:00
Kwangwoo Lee
50b6f1f4a4 Input: add tsc2007 based touchscreen driver
This drive has been tested on ARM9 based SoC - MV86XX.

Signed-off-by: Kwangwoo Lee <kwangwoo.lee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-12-20 05:00:43 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov
93b8eef1c0 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc9' into next 2008-12-20 04:54:54 -05:00
Markus Metzger
c5dee6177f x86, bts: memory accounting
Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket

Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c
to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current.

Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:47 +01:00
Markus Metzger
bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
34801ba9bf x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only.

Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic.
Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:30 -08:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
982d789ab7 x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one.

Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso
returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys
also eliminates the need for pte_pa.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:30 -08:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
d87fe6607c x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
Impact: Changes and globalizes an existing static interface.

Follow_phys does similar things as follow_pfnmap_pte. Make a minor change
to follow_phys so that it can be used in place of follow_pfnmap_pte.
Physical address return value with 0 as error return does not work in
follow_phys as the actual physical address 0 mapping may exist in pte.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:30 -08:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
6bd9cd50c8 x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
Impact: Documentation only

Incremental patches to address the review comments from Nick Piggin
for v3 version of x86 PAT pfnmap changes patchset here

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/01330.html

This patch:

Clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() and its usage.

It is used by x86 PAT code for performance reasons. Identifying pfnmap
as linear over entire vma helps speedup reserve and free of memtype
for the region.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:30 -08:00
James Morris
12204e24b1 security: pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount()
Pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount(), so security modules
can determine if a mount operation is being performed by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
2008-12-20 09:02:39 +11:00
Kalle Valo
520eb82076 mac80211: implement dynamic power save
This patch implements dynamic power save for mac80211. Basically it
means enabling power save mode after an idle period. Implementing it
dynamically gives a good compromise of low power consumption and low
latency. Some hardware have support for this in firmware, but some
require the host to do it.

The dynamic power save is implemented by adding an timeout to
ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(). The timeout can be enabled from userspace
with Wireless Extensions. For example, the command below enables the
dynamic power save and sets the time timeout to 500 ms:

iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m

Power save now only works with devices which handle power save in firmware.
It's also disabled by default and the heuristics when and how to enable is
considered as a policy decision and will be left for the userspace to handle.
In case the firmware has support for this, drivers can disable this feature
with IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS.

Big thanks to Johannes Berg for the help with the design and code.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:24:00 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
0fb8ca45eb mac80211: Add HT rates into RX status reporting
This patch adds option for HT-enabled drivers to report HT rates
(HT20/HT40, short GI, MCS index) to mac80211. These rates are
currently not in the rate table, so the rate_idx is used to indicate
MCS index.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:23:04 -05:00
Sujith
094d05dc32 mac80211: Fix HT channel selection
HT management is done differently for AP and STA modes, unify
to just the ->config() callback since HT is fundamentally a
PHY property and cannot be per-BSS.

Rename enum nl80211_sec_chan_offset as nl80211_channel_type to denote
the channel type ( NO_HT, HT20, HT40+, HT40- ).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:22:54 -05:00