linux/net/wireless/core.h
Johannes Berg 8318d78a44 cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:32 -05:00

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/*
* Wireless configuration interface internals.
*
* Copyright 2006, 2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
*/
#ifndef __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H
#define __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <net/genetlink.h>
#include <net/wireless.h>
#include <net/cfg80211.h>
struct cfg80211_registered_device {
struct cfg80211_ops *ops;
struct list_head list;
/* we hold this mutex during any call so that
* we cannot do multiple calls at once, and also
* to avoid the deregister call to proceed while
* any call is in progress */
struct mutex mtx;
/* wiphy index, internal only */
int idx;
/* associate netdev list */
struct mutex devlist_mtx;
struct list_head netdev_list;
/* must be last because of the way we do wiphy_priv(),
* and it should at least be aligned to NETDEV_ALIGN */
struct wiphy wiphy __attribute__((__aligned__(NETDEV_ALIGN)));
};
static inline
struct cfg80211_registered_device *wiphy_to_dev(struct wiphy *wiphy)
{
BUG_ON(!wiphy);
return container_of(wiphy, struct cfg80211_registered_device, wiphy);
}
extern struct mutex cfg80211_drv_mutex;
extern struct list_head cfg80211_drv_list;
/*
* This function returns a pointer to the driver
* that the genl_info item that is passed refers to.
* If successful, it returns non-NULL and also locks
* the driver's mutex!
*
* This means that you need to call cfg80211_put_dev()
* before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_drv_mutex!
*
* This is necessary because we need to lock the global
* mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then
* we lock the drv mutex so it doesn't go away under us.
*
* We don't want to keep cfg80211_drv_mutex locked
* for all the time in order to allow requests on
* other interfaces to go through at the same time.
*
* The result of this can be a PTR_ERR and hence must
* be checked with IS_ERR() for errors.
*/
extern struct cfg80211_registered_device *
cfg80211_get_dev_from_info(struct genl_info *info);
/* identical to cfg80211_get_dev_from_info but only operate on ifindex */
extern struct cfg80211_registered_device *
cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex(int ifindex);
extern void cfg80211_put_dev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);
/* free object */
extern void cfg80211_dev_free(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);
extern int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv,
char *newname);
void ieee80211_set_bitrate_flags(struct wiphy *wiphy);
void wiphy_update_regulatory(struct wiphy *wiphy);
#endif /* __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H */