Previously, the scan results were disregarded once the new
ones were available. To enable the scan scenarios where the
new scan results are delivered in parts, we introduce a
concept of aging BSSs and will remove them based on
retention time.
CC src/scan.o
src/scan.c: In function ‘scan_bss_compute_rank’:
src/scan.c:1048:4: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90
factor = factor * data_rate / 2340000000 +
This is not used by any of the scan notify callback implementations and
for P2P we're going to need to scan on an interface without an ifindex
so without this the other changes should be mostly contained in scan.
sc->state would get set when the TRIGGERED event arrived or when the
triggered callback for our own SCAN_TRIGGER command is received.
However it would not get reset to NOT_RUNNING when the NEW_SCAN_RESULTS
event is received, instead we'd first request the results with GET_SCAN
and only reset sc->state when that returns. If during that command a
new scan gets triggered, the GET_SCAN callback would still reset
sc->state and clobber the value set by the new scan.
To fix that repurpose sc->state to only track that period from the
TRIGGERED signal to the NEW_SCAN_RESULTS signal. sc->triggered can be
used to check if we're still waiting for the GET_SCAN command and
sc->start_cmd_id to check if we're waiting for the scan to get
triggered, so one of these three variables will now always indicate if
a scan is in progress.
On successful send, scan_send_start(..) used to set msg to NULL,
therefore the further management of the command by the caller was
impossible. This patch removes wrapper around l_genl_family_send()
and lets the callers to take responsibility for the command.
Some users may need their own control over 2.4/5GHz preference. This
adds a new user option, 'rank_5g_factor', which allows users to increase
or decrease their 5G preference.
This adds support for parsing the VHT IE, which allows a BSS supporting
VHT (80211ac) to be ranked higher than a BSS supporting only HT/basic
rates. Now, with basic/HT/VHT parsing we can calculate the theoretical
maximum data rate for all three and rank the BSS based on that.
This adds HT IE parsing and data rate calculation for HT (80211n)
rates. Now, a BSS supporting HT rates will be ranked higher than
a basic rate BSS, assuming the RSSI is at an acceptable level.
The spec dictates RSSI thresholds for different modulation schemes, which
correlate to different data rates. Until now were were ranking a BSS with
only looking at its advertised data rate, which may not even be possible
if the RSSI does not meet the threshold.
Now, RSSI is taken into consideration and the data rate returned from
parsing (Ext) Supported Rates IE(s) will reflect that.
This should not change the behaviour except for fixing a rare crash
due to scan_cancel not working correctly when cancelling the first scan
request in the queue while a periodic scan was running, and potentially
other corner cases. To be able to better distinguish between a periodic
scan in progress and a scan request in progress add a sc->current_sr
field that points either at a scan request or is NULL when a periodic
scan is in ongoing. Move the triggered flag from scan_request and
scan_preiodic directly to scan_context so it's there together with
start_cmd_id. Hopefully make scan_cancel simpler/clearer.
Note sc->state and sc->triggered have similar semantics so one of them
may be easily removed. Also the wiphy_id parameter to the scan callback
is rather useless, note I temporarily pass 0 as the value on error but
perhaps it should be dropped.
The main difference with this is that scan_context removal will also
trigger the .destroy calls. Normally there won't be any requests left
during scan_context but if there were any we should call destroy on
them.
Fix incorrect usage of the caller’s scan triggered callback.
In case of a failure, destroy scan request and notify caller
about the issue by returning zero scan id instead of calling
callers’ scan triggered callback with an error code.
Until now network.c managed the list of network_info structs including
for known networks and networks that are seen in at least one device's
scan results, with the is_known flag to distinguish known networks.
Each time the list was processed though the code was either interested
in one subset of networks or the other. Split the list into a Known
Networks list and the list of other networks seen in scans. Move all
code related to Known Networks to knownnetworks.c, this simplifies
network.h. It also gets rid of network_info_get_known which actually
returned the list of all network_infos (not just for known networks),
which logically should have been private to network.c. Update device.c
and scan.c to use functions specific to Known Networks instead of
filtering the lists by the is_known flag.
This will also allow knownnetworks.c to export DBus objects and/or
properties for the Known Networks information because it now knows when
Known Networks are added, removed or modified by IWD.
triggered flag was being reset to false in all cases. However, due to
how scan_finished logic works, it should have remained true if no more
commands were left to be sent (e.g. the scan was finished).
In addition, the periodic scan can now alternate between the
active or passive modes. The active mode is enabled by existence of
the known hidden networks and observation of them in the
previous scan result.
To support an auto-connect for the hidden networks and having
a limited number of SSIDs that can be appended into a probe
request, introduced a concept of a command batch. Now, scan request
may consist of a series of commands. The commands in the batch
are triggered sequentially. Once we are notified about the
results from a previous command, a consequent command in the
batch is triggered. The collective results are reported once
the batch is complete. On a command failure, the batch
processing is canceled and scan request is removed
The state of scan is split between the two variables sc->state
and sc->start_cmd_id. Not checking start_cmd_id used to cause
sending a scan request while periodic scan was just triggered
resulting in EBUSY.
Andrew Zaborowski