)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "cccf129f820e431d84690729254a32f1709328fb", "tree": "0539c013be61ba6c8eeb0790ccb7df50bf2cb3bd", "parents": [ "2f7fe87034298d94301315ba4bb65c7284c709d0" ], "author": { "name": "Felix Fietkau", "email": "nbd@openwrt.org", "time": "Sun Oct 05 18:07:45 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Mon Oct 06 18:14:57 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: add the \u0027minstrel\u0027 rate control algorithm\n\nSigned-off-by: Felix Fietkau \u003cnbd@openwrt.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4b7679a561e552eeda1e3567119bef2bca99b66e", "tree": "b5f2b45c9186eb954f9329322d07e277e669b422", "parents": [ "2ff6a6d4e92270283432690adf53a7e5ab186d19" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Thu Sep 18 18:14:18 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Wed Sep 24 16:18:03 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: clean up rate control API\n\nLong awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control\nAPI to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of\nnet/mac80211/.\n\nThere\u0027s one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking,\nwe\u0027ll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to\ndo the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control\nalgorithm or via new API.\n\nAdditionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we\nwill add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right\nnow I\u0027m not expert enough to do it. It\u0027s still off better than before.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "323ce79a9cdbf838ea577677b1ddace8e0b4d4c6", "tree": "f14a67ec7927865dc1537b2c3a4fb20c0325f517", "parents": [ "b7e35008815a1c39123f4dd53b430788e2e18da4" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Thu Sep 11 02:45:11 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Mon Sep 15 16:48:24 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: share sta-\u003esupp_rates\n\nAs more preparation for a saner rate control algorithm API,\nshare the supported rates bitmap in the public API.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e5f5e7339cd95d07937e6f8081b46fba86c742a7", "tree": "9526b93d4272d978349b825d90e10a5710d08f00", "parents": [ "bf998f686430107fb8790ef6713f8e352a3deede" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Thu Jun 26 13:38:13 2008 +0300" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Mon Jun 30 17:37:34 2008 -0400" }, "message": "build algorithms into the mac80211 module\n\nThe old infrastructure was:\n- the default algorithm is built into mac80211\n- other algorithms get into their own modules\n\nThe implementation of this complicated scheme was horrible\n(just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new\nalgorithm would most likely not get it right at his first attempt.\n\nThis patch therefore builds all enabled algorithms into the mac80211\nmodule.\n\nThe user interface for the rate control algorithms changes as follows:\n- first the user can choose which algorithms to enable (currently only\n MAC80211_RC_PID is available)\n- if more than one algorithm is enabled (currently not possible since\n only one algorithm is present) the user then chooses the default one\n\nNote:\n- MAC80211_RC_PID is always enables for CONFIG_EMBEDDED\u003dn\n\nTechnical changes:\n- all selected algorithms get into the mac80211 module\n- net/mac80211/Makefile can now become much less complicated\n- support for rc80211_pid_algo.c being modular is no longer required\n- this includes unexporting mesh_plink_broken\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e039fa4a4195ac4ee895e6f3d1334beed63256fe", "tree": "cfd0762d73df96b73052378be7b157c4ac6e7035", "parents": [ "e24549485f859be6518929bb1c9c0257d79f033d" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Thu May 15 12:55:29 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Wed May 21 21:48:11 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: move TX info into skb-\u003ecb\n\nThis patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit\ninformation and status in skb-\u003ecb rather than allocating extra\nmemory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,\na union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps\nis kept outside of the union.\n\nA number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part\nof this patch.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ivo van Doorn \u003cIvDoorn@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nAcked-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2e92e6f2c50b4baf85cca968f0e6f1b5c0df7d39", "tree": "e845c2f3af6d29c807c540366b97b1d886b92c91", "parents": [ "36d6825b91bc492b65b6333c369cd96a2fc8c903" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Thu May 15 12:55:27 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Wed May 21 21:48:09 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: use rate index in TX control\n\nThis patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band\ninfo and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.\nThis mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to\nmake it fit into skb-\u003ecb so that the fragmentation code can\nput it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that\nway in the future.\n\nThe rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ivo van Doorn \u003cIvDoorn@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2c8dccc77420fb7433da5674818959d3499d35be", "tree": "2da037732b78a4796254b485f0c591d9625b7d1e", "parents": [ "3b96766f0e643f52ae19e134664df6730c737e87" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Tue Apr 08 15:14:40 2008 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Tue Apr 08 16:44:45 2008 -0400" }, "message": "mac80211: rename files\n\nThis patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid\nof the useless ieee80211_ prefix.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d9357136ac4729f589543afb6b1d17d443ae4f71", "tree": "00d7e5966faec86f820713136b196821b5e622bd", "parents": [ "7524d7d6de5d5d3f081de8cf5479819fad339661" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Tue Mar 04 15:26:15 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Thu Mar 13 16:02:31 2008 -0400" }, "message": "the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d0709a65181beb787ef3f58cfe45536a2bb254c8", "tree": "29e5f36583b0e0a3f11b291347e57672eab41dad", "parents": [ "5cf121c3cdb955583bf0c5d28c992b7968a4aa1a" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Mon Feb 25 16:27:46 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Thu Mar 06 15:30:46 2008 -0500" }, "message": "mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access\n\nThis makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect\nagainst freeing of items. However, it\u0027s not a true RCU, the\ncopy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it\nis simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is\nnow somewhat understandable.\n\nThis patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction\nby making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under\nRTNL and frees the key.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8318d78a44d49ac1edf2bdec7299de3617c4232e", "tree": "d434634418edd7399737801615d247be06616fdd", "parents": [ "10b6b80145cc93887dd8aab99bfffa375e9add31" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Thu Jan 24 19:38:38 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "John W. Linville", "email": "linville@tuxdriver.com", "time": "Fri Feb 29 15:19:32 2008 -0500" }, "message": "cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion\n\nThis patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate\nregistration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The\nold mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)\nare updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations\ncan be done.\n\nAlong with the regulatory code I\u0027ve also ripped out the\nIEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be\nunnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants\nto support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty\nmuch required for travelling.\n\nAdditionally, the patch adds proper \"basic\" rate handling for STA\nmode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added\nto allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it\u0027ll be\nempty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to\nthe BSS conf stuff.\n\nI do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit\npower handling where I\u0027m basically clueless about how it should work.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4b475898ec9dc6e62cebcb8fc0b3495c986a4590", "tree": "8409a6865f3d83965228fd8f6fae3b05e1e106ed", "parents": [ "688b88a4886834d7e3457711cd4feef6611d3232" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Wed Jan 02 15:17:03 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Jan 28 15:01:02 2008 -0800" }, "message": "mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection\n\nThis patch changes mac80211\u0027s Kconfig/Makefile to:\n * select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control\n algorithm as default\n * always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,\n building those that are selected \u0027y\u0027 into the mac80211\n module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)\n * force the default rate control algorithm to be built into\n mac80211\n\nIt also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again\nwith MODULE_LICENSE etc.\n\nOnly if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select \"NONE\" as default\nwhich will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work\nonly when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ad01837593338f13508463fa11c8dbf8109a1e5d", "tree": "77b521a6b8e7f8357505449fe812a9d41d40afb2", "parents": [ "1abbe498e4b5e4f2000dfc30a0fa25be9553530e" ], "author": { "name": "Mattias Nissler", "email": "mattias.nissler@gmx.de", "time": "Wed Dec 19 01:25:57 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Jan 28 14:59:18 2008 -0800" }, "message": "mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm\n\nAdd a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the\npercentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and\nuses its output to control the TX rate.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mattias Nissler \u003cmattias.nissler@gmx.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1abbe498e4b5e4f2000dfc30a0fa25be9553530e", "tree": "8f899d2f623b2316f874fd8ae4b84838ad4e8b40", "parents": [ "98f0b0a3a412eade153c7cf00c6b863600980d89" ], "author": { "name": "Mattias Nissler", "email": "mattias.nissler@gmx.de", "time": "Thu Dec 20 13:50:07 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Jan 28 14:59:17 2008 -0800" }, "message": "mac80211: clean up rate selection\n\nMove some code out of rc80211_simple since it\u0027s probably needed for all rate\nselection algorithms, and fix iwlwifi accordingly. While at it, clean up the\nrate_control_get_rate() interface.\n\nSigned-off-by: Stefano Brivio \u003cstefano.brivio@polimi.it\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ac71c691e6a5ce991fe221d3bdb0c972f617aa37", "tree": "a3641b416579fbb8368e04e1a88f68e0da8dfe39", "parents": [ "8a8f1c0437a77cce29c1cb6089f01f22a6d9ca6e" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Sun Oct 28 14:17:44 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Sat Nov 10 21:59:23 2007 -0800" }, "message": "mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in\n\nToo frequently people do not have module autoloading enabled\nor fail to install the rate control module correctly, hence\ntheir hardware probing fails due to no rate control algorithm\nbeing available. This makes the \u0027simple\u0027 algorithm built into\nthe mac80211 module unless EMBEDDED is enabled in which case\nit can be disabled (eg. if the wanted driver requires another\nrate control algorithm.)\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Michael Buesch \u003cmb@bu3sch.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f9d540ee5f7e480339911df8d7389ef4c435ab54", "tree": "89381e4aa0f8ea31662dc21e890c339d715f8271", "parents": [ "a28975525016ddcbdaab8225666df1cf2dc9cb2d" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Fri Sep 28 14:02:09 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 10 16:54:15 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[MAC80211]: remove management interface\n\nRemoves the management interface since it is only required\nfor hostapd/userspace MLME, will not be in the final tree\nat least in this form and hostapd/userspace MLME currently\ndo not work against this tree anyway.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ff6880892990aece71a3271425dfde35344d51bb", "tree": "6a6c5f61c0e060a9080345324df5a16e33a94f7e", "parents": [ "1f5a7e47ae58cc23c623c09f1c9d97b7a8cf6344" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Fri Jul 27 15:43:23 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 10 16:47:35 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[MAC80211]: move some rate control functions out of ieee80211.c\n\nI think these can go with rate control just as well and it makes\nieee80211.c more readable.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jiri Benc \u003cjbenc@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e9f207f0ff90bf60b825800d7450e6f2ff2eab88", "tree": "22bd39116f2cae8d4ce6169eb91e4b9a7204770f", "parents": [ "f0706e828e96d0fa4e80c0d25aa98523f6d589a0" ], "author": { "name": "Jiri Benc", "email": "jbenc@suse.cz", "time": "Sat May 05 11:46:38 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Sat May 05 11:46:38 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[MAC80211]: Add debugfs attributes.\n\nExport various mac80211 internal variables through debugfs.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jiri Benc \u003cjbenc@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f0706e828e96d0fa4e80c0d25aa98523f6d589a0", "tree": "a03c7f94939d74c1e1b82fcd9a215871590d8b35", "parents": [ "a9de8ce0943e03b425be18561f51159fcceb873d" ], "author": { "name": "Jiri Benc", "email": "jbenc@suse.cz", "time": "Sat May 05 11:45:53 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Sat May 05 11:45:53 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.\n\nAdd mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jiri Benc \u003cjbenc@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: John W. Linville \u003clinville@tuxdriver.com\u003e\n" } ] }