This seems to be working smoothly now. Let's not hold back the mac80211
transition any further. This patch ports the existing driver from softmac
to mac80211.
Many thanks to everyone who helped out with the porting efforts.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As pointed out by Daniel Drake, the zd1211rw driver used several
different rate values and names throughout the driver. He has
written a patch to change it and tweaked it after some pretty wild
ideas from my side. But the discussion helped me to understand the
problem better and I think I have nailed it down with this patch.
A zd-rate will consist from now on of a four-bit "pure" rate value
and a modulation type flag as used in the ZD1211 control set used
for packet transmission. This is consistent with the usage in the
zd_rates table. If possible these zd-rates should be used in the
code.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While playing with the firmware a while back, I discovered a way to
access the device's entire address space before the firmware has been
loaded.
Previously we were loading the firmware early on (during probe) so that
we could read the MAC address from the EEPROM and register a netdevice.
Now that we can read the EEPROM without having firmware, we can defer
firmware loading until later while still reading the MAC address early
on.
This has the advantage that zd1211rw can now be built into the kernel --
previously if this was the case, zd1211rw would be loaded before the
filesystem is available and firmware loading would fail.
Firmware load and other device initialization operations now happen the
first time the interface is brought up.
Some architectural changes were needed: handling of the is_zd1211b flag
was moved into the zd_usb structure, MAC address handling was obviously
changed, and a preinit_hw stage was added (the order is now: init,
preinit_hw, init_hw).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver called ieee80211_rx in hardware interrupt context. This has
been against the intention of the ieee80211_rx function. It caused a bug
in the crypto routines used by WPA. This patch calls ieee80211_rx in a
tasklet.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Support for multicast adresses is implemented by supporting the
set_multicast_list() function of the network device. Address
filtering is supported by a group hash table in the device.
This is based on earlier work by Benoit Papillaut. Fixes multicast packet
reception and ipv6 connectivity:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7424http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix up arch-specific work items where possible to use the new work_struct and
delayed_work structs.
Three places that enqueue bits of their stack and then return have been marked
with #error as this is not permitted.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This adds zd1211rw driver support for the softmac functionality I
added a while back. We now obey changes in basic rates, use short
preamble if it is available (but long if the AP says it's not),
and send self-CTS in the proper situations.
Locking fixed and improved by Ulrich Kunitz.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These controlset rate constants are also applicable in places outside
the controlset, such as in the RTS/CTS control register.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7399
zd1211rw's support for IW_FREQ_AUTO is broken: when specified, the driver
tries to change to a channel specified in an uninitialized integer. As
IW_FREQ_AUTO is hard to implement properly, the solution (at least for now)
is to drop support for it and start ignoring the flags like all other wireless
drivers do.
This has the added advantage that kismet also starts working with zd1211rw,
even though kismet requesting IW_FREQ_AUTO is also a bug (fixed in their svn)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 4e1bbd846d.
Quoth Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>:
"A user reported that commit 4e1bbd846d
(Remove unneeded packed attributes) breaks the zd1211rw driver on ARM."
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch includes a big cleanup of the existing unused LED code,
and adds support for controlling the LED.
The link LED will blink if the device is not associated. The LED
switches between 2 seconds on and 1 second off. If the device is
associated the LED is switched on.
The link LED also indicates packet TX. I do a little bit more led
resetting than the vendor driver, but the device works now as
expected for single LED and double LED devices.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add static to 2 internal functions. Thanks goes to Adrian Bunk, who found that.
Also made some modifications to the clear functions:
After a discussion on the mailing list, I implemented this code to
have on the one hand sufficient test in debug mode, but on the
other hand reduce the overhead for structure clearing to a
minimum.
A new macro ZD_MEMCLEAR is introduced, which produces code if
DEBUG is set. Locks are not set anymore for structure clearing,
but in debug mode, there is a verification, that the locks have
not been set.
Finally, removed a misleading comment regarding locking in the disconnect
path.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
