linux/net/wireless, branch v2.6.27.1

net/wireless/Kconfig: clarify the description for CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS

2008-09-02T19:03:19Z

Current setup with hal and NetworkManager will fail to work without newest hal version with this config option disabled. Although this will solve itself by time, at the moment it is dishonest to say that we don't know any software that uses it, if there are many many people relying on old hal versions. Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wext: Send name on events

2008-08-13T09:39:56Z

In the minimal the wireless extensions oughta send at least the name in addition to the ifindex. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

nl80211: fix dump callbacks

2008-07-29T20:55:08Z

Julius Volz pointed out that the dump callbacks in nl80211 were broken and fixed one of them. This patch fixes the other three and also addresses the TODOs there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Cc: Julius Volz Cc: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.

2008-07-20T05:34:43Z

Without CONFIG_NET_NS, namespace is always &init_net. Compiler will be able to omit namespace comparisons with this patch. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wext: make sysfs bits optional and deprecate them

2008-07-14T18:52:57Z

The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch makes them optional and schedules them for removal. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Cc: Jean Tourrilhes Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

net/wireless/nl80211.c: fix endless Netlink callback loop.

2008-07-08T18:16:08Z

Although I only tested similar code (I don't use any of this wireless code), the state maintainance between Netlink dump callback invocations seems wrong here and should lead to an endless loop. There are also other examples in the same file which might have the same problem. Perhaps someone can actually test this (or refute my logic). Take the simple example with only one element in the list (which should fit into the message): 1. invocation: Start: idx = 0, start = 0 Loop: condition (++idx < start) => (1 < 0) => false => no continue, fill one entry, exit loop, return skb->len > 0 2. invocation: Start: idx = 0, start = 1 Loop: condition (++idx < start) => (1 < 1) => false => no continue, fill the same entry again, exit loop, return skb->len > 0 3. invocation: Same as 2. invocation, endless invocation of callback. Also, iterations where the filling of an element fails should not be counted as completed, so idx should not be incremented in this case. Signed-off-by: Julius Volz Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

wext: Create IW_REQUEST_FLAG_COMPAT and set it as needed.

2008-06-17T01:34:49Z

Now low-level WEXT ioctl handlers can do compat handling when necessary. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wext: Dispatch and handle compat ioctls entirely in net/wireless/wext.c

2008-06-17T01:32:46Z

Next we can kill the hacks in fs/compat_ioctl.c and also dispatch compat ioctls down into the driver and 80211 protocol helper layers in order to handle iw_point objects embedded in stream replies which need to be translated. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wext: Pull top-level ioctl dispatch logic into helper function.

2008-06-17T01:32:09Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wext: Pass iwreq pointer down into standard/private handlers.

2008-06-17T01:31:55Z

They have no need to see the object as an ifreq. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller