[PATCH 0/4] 802.11p OCB mode

From: Rostislav Lisovy
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 10:30:51 EST


The IEEE 802.11p amendment (already part of IEEE 802.11-2012)
specifies usage of 5 and 10 MHz wide channels in 5.9GHz band for
vehicular environment. All the 802.11p compliant devices should
be set to the newly added operation mode -- OCB (Outside the
Context of a BSS). No authentication/association is necessary to
communicate. The only parameter to be configured is the channel
(central frequency and bandwidth) to communicate on. The channel
has to be known a priori. It is set during the 'ocb join'
operation (sent via netlink message from user-space).

This patchset adds the OCB mode, OCB join and leave handling
(nl80211, cfg80211, mac80211), 802.11p EDCA parameters
modification, RX and TX path (for unicast/broadcast messages).

What aspects are ignored for now:
* Rate control -- We limit the supported datarates to the .11a
mandatory rates and use the Minstrel as usual
* Actually restricting the OCB mode to the 5.9 GHz band

Tested with the ath9k card with slightly modified driver.
User-space configuration utilities are not part of this patch.

Rostislav Lisovy (4):
mac80211: OCB mode + join and leave handling
mac80211: Use different EDCA config for OCB
cfg80211: Join and Leave handling for OCB mode
nl80211: Join and Leave handling for OCB mode

include/net/cfg80211.h | 11 ++
include/net/mac80211.h | 2 +
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 11 ++
net/mac80211/Kconfig | 11 ++
net/mac80211/Makefile | 3 +-
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 14 +++
net/mac80211/chan.c | 1 +
net/mac80211/debug.h | 10 ++
net/mac80211/driver-ops.h | 3 +-
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 20 ++++
net/mac80211/iface.c | 20 ++++
net/mac80211/ocb.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/mac80211/rx.c | 33 ++++++
net/mac80211/tx.c | 15 +++
net/mac80211/util.c | 31 +++++-
net/mac80211/wme.c | 4 +
net/wireless/Makefile | 2 +-
net/wireless/chan.c | 8 ++
net/wireless/core.h | 10 ++
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 47 +++++++++
net/wireless/ocb.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h | 21 ++++
net/wireless/trace.h | 21 ++++
net/wireless/util.c | 5 +-
24 files changed, 618 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 net/mac80211/ocb.c
create mode 100644 net/wireless/ocb.c

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2.0.0.rc4

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