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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/net/mac80211/Makefile, branch linux-2.6.26.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2008-04-08T20:44:45+00:00</updated>
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<title>mac80211: rename files</title>
<updated>2008-04-08T20:44:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-08T19:14:40+00:00</published>
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This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal</title>
<updated>2008-03-13T20:02:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-04T23:26:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: enable mesh in Kconfig</title>
<updated>2008-03-06T20:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-23T14:17:21+00:00</published>
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Currently marked BROKEN because of endianness problems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion</title>
<updated>2008-02-29T20:19:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-24T18:38:38+00:00</published>
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This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-02T14:17:03+00:00</published>
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This patch changes mac80211's Kconfig/Makefile to:
 * select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control
   algorithm as default
 * always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,
   building those that are selected 'y' into the mac80211
   module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)
 * force the default rate control algorithm to be built into
   mac80211

It also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again
with MODULE_LICENSE etc.

Only if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select "NONE" as default
which will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work
only when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rc80211-pid: add debugging</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T22:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mattias Nissler</name>
<email>mattias.nissler@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-19T00:27:18+00:00</published>
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This adds a new debugfs file from which rate control relevant events can be
read one event per line. The output includes the current time, so graphs can be
created showing the rate control parameters. This helps in evaluating and
tuning rate control parameters. While at it, we split headers and code for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler &lt;mattias.nissler@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;stefano.brivio@polimi.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T22:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>stefano.brivio@polimi.it</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-19T00:26:16+00:00</published>
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This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;stefano.brivio@polimi.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T22:59:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mattias Nissler</name>
<email>mattias.nissler@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-19T00:25:57+00:00</published>
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Add a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the
percentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and
uses its output to control the TX rate.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler &lt;mattias.nissler@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in</title>
<updated>2007-11-11T05:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-28T13:17:44+00:00</published>
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Too frequently people do not have module autoloading enabled
or fail to install the rate control module correctly, hence
their hardware probing fails due to no rate control algorithm
being available. This makes the 'simple' algorithm built into
the mac80211 module unless EMBEDDED is enabled in which case
it can be disabled (eg. if the wanted driver requires another
rate control algorithm.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Buesch &lt;mb@bu3sch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MAC80211]: rename ieee80211_cfg.c to cfg.c</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-18T21:29:20+00:00</published>
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It's just painful to have the extra ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu &lt;flamingice@sourmilk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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