linux/include/net
Johannes Berg 8e3bad65a5 mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac
Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the
use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may
have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset.

Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed
up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that
mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used
by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good
enough" suspend/resume.

Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only
works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or
any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless.

Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because
it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping
functions within the critical section, and now because it's called
by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl
because it is flushed under rtnl.
(cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046)

I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it
entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly.
For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for
the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably
simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get
mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to
connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we
will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer
to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation,
while the suspend operation must be done directly.

Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect
to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short
enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect
that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the
association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data
frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and
have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is
available and requested.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18 17:26:26 -05:00
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9p 9p: fix sparse warnings 2008-10-22 18:54:47 -05:00
bluetooth include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
irda include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
iucv [AF_IUCV]: postpone receival of iucv-packets 2007-10-10 16:54:51 -07:00
netfilter netfilter: ctnetlink: remove bogus module dependency between ctnetlink and nf_nat 2008-10-14 11:58:31 -07:00
netns netfilter: netns: use NFPROTO_NUMPROTO instead of NUMPROTO for tables array 2008-10-20 03:31:54 -07:00
phonet Phonet: include generic link-layer header size in MAX_PHONET_HEADER 2008-10-26 23:06:31 -07:00
sctp sctp: Fix to handle SHUTDOWN in SHUTDOWN_RECEIVED state 2008-10-23 01:01:18 -07:00
tc_act pkt_action: add new action skbedit 2008-09-12 16:30:20 -07:00
tipc tipc: Remove unneeded parameter to tipc_createport_raw() 2008-07-14 22:42:19 -07:00
act_api.h [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get 2008-01-28 15:11:17 -08:00
addrconf.h netns: Add network namespace argument to rt6_fill_node() and ipv6_dev_get_saddr() 2008-08-14 15:33:21 -07:00
af_rxrpc.h [AF_RXRPC]: Add an interface to the AF_RXRPC module for the AFS filesystem to use 2007-04-26 15:50:17 -07:00
af_unix.h net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector 2008-11-09 11:17:33 -08:00
ah.h [IPSEC]: Get rid of ipv6_{auth,esp,comp}_hdr 2007-10-10 16:55:55 -07:00
arp.h [NETFILTER]: ebtables: remove casts, use consts 2008-01-31 19:27:33 -08:00
atmclip.h
ax25.h [AX25] ax25_ds_timer: use mod_timer instead of add_timer 2008-02-12 17:53:34 -08:00
ax88796.h ax88796: add 93cx6 eeprom support 2007-10-10 16:53:56 -07:00
cfg80211.h cfg80211: show interface type 2008-09-24 16:18:00 -04:00
checksum.h [NET]: Move netfilter checksum helpers to net/core/utils.c 2008-01-28 14:55:14 -08:00
cipso_ipv4.h cipso: Add support for native local labeling and fixup mapping names 2008-10-10 10:16:34 -04:00
compat.h net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures. 2008-07-19 22:35:47 -07:00
datalink.h
dn.h [DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h 2007-07-10 23:02:12 -07:00
dn_dev.h
dn_fib.h
dn_neigh.h
dn_nsp.h
dn_route.h [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation. 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
dsa.h dsa: add support for Trailer tagging format 2008-10-08 17:24:16 -07:00
dsfield.h [NET]: Constify include/net/dsfield.h 2008-01-28 14:55:58 -08:00
dst.h net: Kill plain NET_XMIT_BYPASS. 2008-08-04 23:04:08 -07:00
esp.h [IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP 2008-01-31 19:27:02 -08:00
fib_rules.h net: add fib_rules_ops to flush_cache method 2008-07-05 19:01:28 -07:00
flow.h ipv4: Loosen source address check on IPv4 output 2008-10-01 07:28:28 -07:00
garp.h vlan: Add GVRP support 2008-07-05 21:26:57 -07:00
gen_stats.h [NET_SCHED]: Convert packet schedulers from rtnetlink to new netlink API 2008-01-28 15:11:10 -08:00
genetlink.h netlink: Improve returned error codes 2008-06-03 16:36:54 -07:00
icmp.h mib: put icmpmsg statistics on struct net 2008-07-18 04:04:22 -07:00
ieee80211.h include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
ieee80211_crypt.h [PATCH] Update my email address from jkmaline@cc.hut.fi to j@w1.fi 2007-04-28 11:01:01 -04:00
ieee80211_radiotap.h include: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers 2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
if_inet6.h ipv6: make struct ipv6_devconf static 2008-07-22 14:21:58 -07:00
inet6_connection_sock.h
inet6_hashtables.h inet: Don't lookup the socket if there's a socket attached to the skb 2008-10-07 12:41:01 -07:00
inet_common.h [NETNS]: Inet control socket should not hold a namespace. 2008-04-03 14:28:30 -07:00
inet_connection_sock.h net: more #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT 2008-08-28 02:53:51 -07:00
inet_ecn.h [IPV6]: Use appropriate sock tclass setting for routing lookup. 2008-04-13 23:40:51 -07:00
inet_frag.h [NET]: Rename inet_frag.h identifiers COMPLETE, FIRST_IN, LAST_IN to INET_FRAG_* 2008-03-28 16:35:27 -07:00
inet_hashtables.h inet: Don't lookup the socket if there's a socket attached to the skb 2008-10-07 12:41:01 -07:00
inet_sock.h tcp: Port redirection support for TCP 2008-10-01 07:46:49 -07:00
inet_timewait_sock.h ipv4: Implement IP_TRANSPARENT socket option 2008-10-01 07:30:02 -07:00
inetpeer.h net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
ip.h sysctl: simplify ->strategy 2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
ip6_checksum.h
ip6_fib.h [NETNS][IPV6] rt6_info - move rt6_info structure inside the namespace 2008-03-04 13:48:30 -08:00
ip6_route.h netns: Add network namespace argument to rt6_fill_node() and ipv6_dev_get_saddr() 2008-08-14 15:33:21 -07:00
ip6_tunnel.h net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
ip_fib.h [IPV4]: Fix compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC 2008-02-05 02:54:16 -08:00
ip_vs.h include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
ipcomp.h ipsec: ipcomp - Merge IPComp implementations 2008-07-25 02:54:40 -07:00
ipconfig.h net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
ipip.h inet: Make tunnel RX/TX byte counters more consistent 2008-10-09 12:03:17 -07:00
ipv6.h ipv6: making ip and icmp statistics per/namespace 2008-10-08 11:16:45 -07:00
ipx.h
iw_handler.h wext: Emit event stream entries correctly when compat. 2008-06-16 18:50:49 -07:00
lapb.h
llc.h [LLC]: station source mac address 2008-03-28 16:28:36 -07:00
llc_c_ac.h
llc_c_ev.h
llc_c_st.h
llc_conn.h [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
llc_if.h [LLC]: Kill static inline llc_addrany 2008-02-29 11:46:17 -08:00
llc_pdu.h [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_s_ac.h
llc_s_ev.h
llc_s_st.h
llc_sap.h [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
mac80211.h mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac 2008-11-18 17:26:26 -05:00
mip6.h [IPV6] MIP6: Use our standard definitions for paddings. 2008-04-12 13:43:22 +09:00
ndisc.h sysctl: simplify ->strategy 2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
neighbour.h core: add stat to track unresolved discards in neighbor cache 2008-07-16 20:50:49 -07:00
net_namespace.h netns: add register_pernet_gen_subsys/unregister_pernet_gen_subsys 2008-10-30 23:55:16 -07:00
netdma.h
netevent.h [NET]: Remove unnecessary inclusion of dst.h 2008-01-28 14:53:38 -08:00
netlabel.h netlabel: Add configuration support for local labeling 2008-10-10 10:16:34 -04:00
netlink.h Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
netrom.h
nexthop.h
p8022.h
pkt_cls.h [PKT_SCHED]: Pass real namespace in net scheduler classifiers. 2008-03-27 16:53:37 -07:00
pkt_sched.h pkt_sched: Remove the tx queue state check in qdisc_run() 2008-09-23 01:05:56 -07:00
protocol.h [NETNS]: Drop packets in the non-initial namespace on the per/protocol basis. 2008-03-24 15:33:00 -07:00
psnap.h
raw.h [RAW]: Add raw_hashinfo member on struct proto. 2008-03-22 16:56:51 -07:00
rawv6.h [IPv6] RAW: Compact the API for the kernel 2008-01-28 14:54:29 -08:00
red.h
request_sock.h tcp: Fix kernel panic when calling tcp_v(4/6)_md5_do_lookup 2008-08-06 23:50:04 -07:00
rose.h rose: improving AX25 routing frames via ROSE network 2008-06-17 17:08:32 -07:00
route.h ipv4: Conditionally enable transparent flow flag when connecting 2008-10-01 07:35:39 -07:00
rtnetlink.h [RTNL]: Introduce the rtnl_kill_links helper. 2008-04-16 00:46:52 -07:00
sch_generic.h pkt_sched: Fix handling of gso skbs on requeuing 2008-10-06 09:54:39 -07:00
scm.h net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy(). 2008-11-06 13:51:50 -08:00
slhc_vj.h
snmp.h net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
sock.h lockdep: include/linux/lockdep.h - fix warning in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c 2008-11-13 23:19:10 -08:00
stp.h net: Add STP demux layer 2008-07-05 21:25:39 -07:00
syncppp.h Remove bogus variables from syncppp.[ch] 2008-07-23 23:00:31 +02:00
tcp.h net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv() 2008-10-07 14:18:42 -07:00
tcp_states.h
timewait_sock.h
transp_v6.h net: change proto destroy method to return void 2008-06-14 17:04:49 -07:00
udp.h netns: make uplitev6 mib per/namespace 2008-10-07 14:50:06 -07:00
udplite.h [UDP]: Revert udplite and code split. 2008-03-06 16:22:02 -08:00
wext.h wext: Dispatch and handle compat ioctls entirely in net/wireless/wext.c 2008-06-16 18:32:46 -07:00
wireless.h cfg80211: show interface type 2008-09-24 16:18:00 -04:00
x25.h
x25device.h
xfrm.h xfrm: MIGRATE enhancements (draft-ebalard-mext-pfkey-enhanced-migrate) 2008-10-05 13:33:42 -07:00