This patch is from Nick Kossifidis but he forgot to send it. It ensures
that the beacon queue gets started in mesh mode as well, otherwise ath5k
will not beacon in mesh point mode.
At this time, we still need to issue a scan before mesh beaconing will
work but that appears to be a separate problem.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211.
Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they
are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers
to be also benefit from these utility functions.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Write next beacon timer even on AP mode since without this we get
no beacons + ath9k does it too. Docs say that we must write 0 on
this register on AP mode to start TSF increment, we do both to be
on the safe side.
* Fix num_tx_pending function, we never read the register :P that's
why we got all those "beacon queue 7 didn't stop messages".
* Put full prioriy on beacon queue, lock all queues with lower
priority using the arblock and also bypass any arblock by seting
the arblock ignore flag.
* For the CAB queue (do we need this thing ?, it seems crap) since
it's supposed to fire up after each beacon (we don't use it on driver
part, ath9k/MadWiFi does), don't make it DBA gated but instead make
it fire after each beacon by using the beacon sent gated flag.
* Increase bmiss threshold to 10, that's what we used on MadWiFi for
a long time. Also when we have pending frames on the beacon queue (we
got a beacon that didn't make it on the air) it's more likely that
the beacon queue never started, probably due to faulty DBA setting,
so change that "beacon queue didn't stop" message.
Tested this with AP mode and IBSS mode and seems to work fine ;-)
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set null key type even on ar5211, otherwise it en/decrypts every frame with
protected bit set which renders the card unusable on encrypted networks.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
