From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 06:49:48 +0000 (+0200) Subject: mac80211: improve IBSS scanning X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc1~473^2~167^2~52 X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be4a4b6a5d2f76393f545a2545fbaa1b65577e13;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 mac80211: improve IBSS scanning When IBSS is fixed to a frequency, it can still scan to try to find the right BSSID. This makes sense if the BSSID isn't also fixed, but it need not scan all channels -- just one is sufficient. Make it do that by moving the scan setup code to ieee80211_request_internal_scan() and include a channel variable setting. Note that this can be further improved to start the IBSS right away if both frequency and BSSID are fixed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c index c585fce..ba75236 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c @@ -488,7 +488,9 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_merge_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other " "IBSS networks with same SSID (merge)\n", sdata->name); - ieee80211_request_internal_scan(sdata, ifibss->ssid, ifibss->ssid_len); + ieee80211_request_internal_scan(sdata, + ifibss->ssid, ifibss->ssid_len, + ifibss->fixed_channel ? ifibss->channel : NULL); } static void ieee80211_sta_create_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) @@ -595,8 +597,9 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to " "join\n", sdata->name); - ieee80211_request_internal_scan(sdata, ifibss->ssid, - ifibss->ssid_len); + ieee80211_request_internal_scan(sdata, + ifibss->ssid, ifibss->ssid_len, + ifibss->fixed_channel ? ifibss->channel : NULL); } else { int interval = IEEE80211_SCAN_INTERVAL; diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h index 4e73660..c8077a3 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h @@ -1020,7 +1020,8 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_restart(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); /* scan/BSS handling */ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work); int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, - const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len); + const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len, + struct ieee80211_channel *chan); int ieee80211_request_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct cfg80211_scan_request *req); void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80211_local *local); diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index ebcca0e..353b6b4 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw); int result; enum ieee80211_band band; - int channels, i, j, max_bitrates; + int channels, max_bitrates; bool supp_ht; static const u32 cipher_suites[] = { WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP40, @@ -605,21 +605,6 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) ieee80211_led_init(local); - /* alloc internal scan request */ - i = 0; - local->int_scan_req->ssids = &local->scan_ssid; - local->int_scan_req->n_ssids = 1; - for (band = 0; band < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; band++) { - if (!hw->wiphy->bands[band]) - continue; - for (j = 0; j < hw->wiphy->bands[band]->n_channels; j++) { - local->int_scan_req->channels[i] = - &hw->wiphy->bands[band]->channels[j]; - i++; - } - } - local->int_scan_req->n_channels = i; - local->network_latency_notifier.notifier_call = ieee80211_max_network_latency; result = pm_qos_add_notifier(PM_QOS_NETWORK_LATENCY, diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c index a9d4058..4146512 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c @@ -728,10 +728,12 @@ int ieee80211_request_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, - const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len) + const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len, + struct ieee80211_channel *chan) { struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local; int ret = -EBUSY; + enum nl80211_band band; mutex_lock(&local->scan_mtx); @@ -739,6 +741,30 @@ int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, if (local->scan_req) goto unlock; + /* fill internal scan request */ + if (!chan) { + int i, nchan = 0; + + for (band = 0; band < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; band++) { + if (!local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]) + continue; + for (i = 0; + i < local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]->n_channels; + i++) { + local->int_scan_req->channels[nchan] = + &local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]->channels[i]; + nchan++; + } + } + + local->int_scan_req->n_channels = nchan; + } else { + local->int_scan_req->channels[0] = chan; + local->int_scan_req->n_channels = 1; + } + + local->int_scan_req->ssids = &local->scan_ssid; + local->int_scan_req->n_ssids = 1; memcpy(local->int_scan_req->ssids[0].ssid, ssid, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN); local->int_scan_req->ssids[0].ssid_len = ssid_len;