wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default

The old WDS 4-addr frame support is very limited, e.g.
 * no encryption is possible on such links
 * it cannot support rate/HT/VHT negotiation
 * management APIs are very restricted

These make the WDS legacy mode useless in practice.

All of these are resolved by the 4-addr AP/client support,
so there's also no reason to improve WDS in the future.

Therefore, add a Kconfig option to disable legacy WDS.
This gives people an "emergency valve" while they migrate
to the better-supported 4-addr AP/client option; we plan
to remove it (and the associated cfg80211/mac80211 code,
which is the ultimate goal) in the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2016-10-18 10:28:57 +02:00
parent 0ea2a2ee8d
commit 8f20542386
6 changed files with 37 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -734,9 +734,11 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_limit if_limits[] = {
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) },
};
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
static const struct ieee80211_iface_limit wds_limits[] = {
{ .max = 2048, .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) },
};
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT
@@ -774,6 +776,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_combination if_comb[] = {
BIT(NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_40),
#endif
},
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
{
.limits = wds_limits,
.n_limits = ARRAY_SIZE(wds_limits),
@@ -781,6 +784,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_combination if_comb[] = {
.num_different_channels = 1,
.beacon_int_infra_match = true,
},
#endif
};
#ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT
@@ -851,7 +855,9 @@ static void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) |
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
#endif
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB);
if (ath9k_is_chanctx_enabled())