This patchset adds support for 5 and 10 MHz in nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211
and enables support in ath5k and ath9k, which already support this feature
on the driver side. 5 and 10 MHz wide channels might be useful for:
* long shot links, as the transmissions are more robust
* future support for 802.11y which allows some 5 and 10 MHz channels in
3.6 GHz range
* future support for 802.11p which uses 10 MHz in 5.9 GHz range
* ... and more "special" applications.
This patchset enables 5 and 10 MHz channels only for OFDM, and without
HT/MIMO/aggregation (for now). Support may be added later.
Changes to PATCHv1:
* the actual datarates are handled, not the corresponding 20MHz rates
as before. This should make it compatible to freebsd, although I was
informed that some other implementors might still use the corresponding
20MHz rates. Anyway, from looking at the standard using the actual rates
should be the right thing to do.
* txpower is decremented according to channel bandwidth (the regulation I
checked all define limits in dBm/MHz)
* radiotap support for 5/10 MHz channel flag was added
* some fixes for ath5k/ath9k were included to make them interoperable
(having the same SIFS improved performance quite well,
300kbps -> 6600 kbps for 5 MHz channels :) )
As always, any comments are appreciated!
Cheers,
Simon
Simon Wunderlich (18):
nl80211/cfg80211: add 5 and 10 MHz defines and wiphy flag
nl80211: add half/quarter channel bitrate tables to supported band
struct
mac80211: fix various components for the new 5 and 10 MHz widths
mac80211: fix timing for 5 MHz and 10 MHz channels
mac80211: round rates to the next multiple of 500kbps
mac80211: choose bitrate table according to bandwidth
mac80211: add radiotap flag and handling for 5/10 MHz
cfg80211/mac80211: use reduced txpower for 5 and 10 MHz
mac80211: change IBSS channel state to chandef
nl80211: allow 5 and 10 MHz channels for IBSS
ath9k: always use SIFS times from OFDM for 5/10 MHz
ath9k: use chandef instead of channel_type
ath9k: add and use 5/10 MHz bitrate tables
ath9k: report 5/10 MHz channels
ath9k: announce that ath9k supports 5/10 MHz
ath5k: add and use 5/10 MHz bitrate tables
ath5k: report 5/10 MHz channels
ath5k: enable support for 5 MHz and 10 MHz channels
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h | 11 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c | 23 ++++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/pcu.c | 30 +++++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/qcu.c | 23 ++++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c | 13 ++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common.c | 67 +++++++-----
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common.h | 3 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c | 68 +++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c | 13 ++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 24 ++++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 14 ++-
include/net/cfg80211.h | 66 ++++++++++++
include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h | 4 +
include/net/mac80211.h | 40 ++++++-
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 4 +
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 50 +++++++--
net/mac80211/ibss.c | 58 +++++++----
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 47 ++++++++-
net/mac80211/iface.c | 7 +-
net/mac80211/main.c | 7 +-
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 4 +-
net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c | 18 +++-
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 84 ++++++++++-----
net/mac80211/rate.c | 102 ++++++++++++------
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 59 +++++++----
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 26 +++--
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid.h | 2 +
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c | 68 +++++++++---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 52 +++++++---
net/mac80211/status.c | 18 +++-
net/mac80211/tx.c | 43 ++++++--
net/mac80211/util.c | 138 +++++++++++++++++++------
net/wireless/chan.c | 57 ++++++++--
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 23 ++++-
net/wireless/util.c | 58 +++++++++++
41 files changed, 1179 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-)
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1.7.10.4
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