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5 <book id="mac80211-developers-guide">
6   <bookinfo>
7     <title>The mac80211 subsystem for kernel developers</title>
8
9     <authorgroup>
10       <author>
11         <firstname>Johannes</firstname>
12         <surname>Berg</surname>
13         <affiliation>
14           <address><email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email></address>
15         </affiliation>
16       </author>
17     </authorgroup>
18
19     <copyright>
20       <year>2007-2009</year>
21       <holder>Johannes Berg</holder>
22     </copyright>
23
24     <legalnotice>
25       <para>
26         This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
27         it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
28         License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
29       </para>
30
31       <para>
32         This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be
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36       </para>
37
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43       </para>
44
45       <para>
46         For more details see the file COPYING in the source
47         distribution of Linux.
48       </para>
49     </legalnotice>
50
51     <abstract>
52 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Introduction
53 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Warning
54     </abstract>
55   </bookinfo>
56
57   <toc></toc>
58
59 <!--
60 Generally, this document shall be ordered by increasing complexity.
61 It is important to note that readers should be able to read only
62 the first few sections to get a working driver and only advanced
63 usage should require reading the full document.
64 -->
65
66   <part>
67     <title>The basic mac80211 driver interface</title>
68     <partintro>
69       <para>
70         You should read and understand the information contained
71         within this part of the book while implementing a driver.
72         In some chapters, advanced usage is noted, that may be
73         skipped at first.
74       </para>
75       <para>
76         This part of the book only covers station and monitor mode
77         functionality, additional information required to implement
78         the other modes is covered in the second part of the book.
79       </para>
80     </partintro>
81
82     <chapter id="basics">
83       <title>Basic hardware handling</title>
84       <para>TBD</para>
85       <para>
86         This chapter shall contain information on getting a hw
87         struct allocated and registered with mac80211.
88       </para>
89       <para>
90         Since it is required to allocate rates/modes before registering
91         a hw struct, this chapter shall also contain information on setting
92         up the rate/mode structs.
93       </para>
94       <para>
95         Additionally, some discussion about the callbacks and
96         the general programming model should be in here, including
97         the definition of ieee80211_ops which will be referred to
98         a lot.
99       </para>
100       <para>
101         Finally, a discussion of hardware capabilities should be done
102         with references to other parts of the book.
103       </para>
104 <!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
105 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw
106 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw_flags
107 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_DEV
108 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR
109 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ops
110 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_alloc_hw
111 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_register_hw
112 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_tx_led_name
113 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_rx_led_name
114 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name
115 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_radio_led_name
116 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_unregister_hw
117 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_free_hw
118     </chapter>
119
120     <chapter id="phy-handling">
121       <title>PHY configuration</title>
122       <para>TBD</para>
123       <para>
124         This chapter should describe PHY handling including
125         start/stop callbacks and the various structures used.
126       </para>
127 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf
128 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf_flags
129     </chapter>
130
131     <chapter id="iface-handling">
132       <title>Virtual interfaces</title>
133       <para>TBD</para>
134       <para>
135         This chapter should describe virtual interface basics
136         that are relevant to the driver (VLANs, MGMT etc are not.)
137         It should explain the use of the add_iface/remove_iface
138         callbacks as well as the interface configuration callbacks.
139       </para>
140       <para>Things related to AP mode should be discussed there.</para>
141       <para>
142         Things related to supporting multiple interfaces should be
143         in the appropriate chapter, a BIG FAT note should be here about
144         this though and the recommendation to allow only a single
145         interface in STA mode at first!
146       </para>
147 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_init_conf
148     </chapter>
149
150     <chapter id="rx-tx">
151       <title>Receive and transmit processing</title>
152       <sect1>
153         <title>what should be here</title>
154         <para>TBD</para>
155         <para>
156           This should describe the receive and transmit
157           paths in mac80211/the drivers as well as
158           transmit status handling.
159         </para>
160       </sect1>
161       <sect1>
162         <title>Frame format</title>
163 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame format
164       </sect1>
165       <sect1>
166         <title>Packet alignment</title>
167 !Pnet/mac80211/rx.c Packet alignment
168       </sect1>
169       <sect1>
170         <title>Calling into mac80211 from interrupts</title>
171 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Calling mac80211 from interrupts
172       </sect1>
173       <sect1>
174         <title>functions/definitions</title>
175 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_status
176 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h mac80211_rx_flags
177 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_info
178 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx
179 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
180 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status
181 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
182 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_get
183 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_duration
184 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_get
185 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
186 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
187 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb
188 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hdrlen
189 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queue
190 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queue
191 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queues
192 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queues
193       </sect1>
194     </chapter>
195
196     <chapter id="filters">
197       <title>Frame filtering</title>
198 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame filtering
199 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_filter_flags
200     </chapter>
201   </part>
202
203   <part id="advanced">
204     <title>Advanced driver interface</title>
205     <partintro>
206       <para>
207        Information contained within this part of the book is
208        of interest only for advanced interaction of mac80211
209        with drivers to exploit more hardware capabilities and
210        improve performance.
211       </para>
212     </partintro>
213
214     <chapter id="hardware-crypto-offload">
215       <title>Hardware crypto acceleration</title>
216 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Hardware crypto acceleration
217 <!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
218 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h set_key_cmd
219 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_conf
220 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_alg
221 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_flags
222     </chapter>
223
224     <chapter id="powersave">
225       <title>Powersave support</title>
226 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Powersave support
227     </chapter>
228
229     <chapter id="beacon-filter">
230       <title>Beacon filter support</title>
231 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Beacon filter support
232 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_beacon_loss
233     </chapter>
234
235     <chapter id="qos">
236       <title>Multiple queues and QoS support</title>
237       <para>TBD</para>
238 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_params
239 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_stats
240     </chapter>
241
242     <chapter id="AP">
243       <title>Access point mode support</title>
244       <para>TBD</para>
245       <para>Some parts of the if_conf should be discussed here instead</para>
246       <para>
247         Insert notes about VLAN interfaces with hw crypto here or
248         in the hw crypto chapter.
249       </para>
250 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
251 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_beacon_get
252     </chapter>
253
254     <chapter id="multi-iface">
255       <title>Supporting multiple virtual interfaces</title>
256       <para>TBD</para>
257       <para>
258         Note: WDS with identical MAC address should almost always be OK
259       </para>
260       <para>
261         Insert notes about having multiple virtual interfaces with
262         different MAC addresses here, note which configurations are
263         supported by mac80211, add notes about supporting hw crypto
264         with it.
265       </para>
266     </chapter>
267
268     <chapter id="hardware-scan-offload">
269       <title>Hardware scan offload</title>
270       <para>TBD</para>
271 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_scan_completed
272     </chapter>
273   </part>
274
275   <part id="rate-control">
276     <title>Rate control interface</title>
277     <partintro>
278       <para>TBD</para>
279       <para>
280        This part of the book describes the rate control algorithm
281        interface and how it relates to mac80211 and drivers.
282       </para>
283     </partintro>
284     <chapter id="dummy">
285       <title>dummy chapter</title>
286       <para>TBD</para>
287     </chapter>
288   </part>
289
290   <part id="internal">
291     <title>Internals</title>
292     <partintro>
293       <para>TBD</para>
294       <para>
295        This part of the book describes mac80211 internals.
296       </para>
297     </partintro>
298
299     <chapter id="key-handling">
300       <title>Key handling</title>
301       <sect1>
302         <title>Key handling basics</title>
303 !Pnet/mac80211/key.c Key handling basics
304       </sect1>
305       <sect1>
306         <title>MORE TBD</title>
307         <para>TBD</para>
308       </sect1>
309     </chapter>
310
311     <chapter id="rx-processing">
312       <title>Receive processing</title>
313       <para>TBD</para>
314     </chapter>
315
316     <chapter id="tx-processing">
317       <title>Transmit processing</title>
318       <para>TBD</para>
319     </chapter>
320
321     <chapter id="sta-info">
322       <title>Station info handling</title>
323       <sect1>
324         <title>Programming information</title>
325 !Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h sta_info
326 !Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h ieee80211_sta_info_flags
327       </sect1>
328       <sect1>
329         <title>STA information lifetime rules</title>
330 !Pnet/mac80211/sta_info.c STA information lifetime rules
331       </sect1>
332     </chapter>
333
334     <chapter id="synchronisation">
335       <title>Synchronisation</title>
336       <para>TBD</para>
337       <para>Locking, lots of RCU</para>
338     </chapter>
339   </part>
340 </book>