wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the old drivers drivers left in the
directory to a new "legacy" directory. I did consider adding
CON

wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the old drivers drivers left in the
directory to a new "legacy" directory. I did consider adding
CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_LEGACY like other vendors have but then dropped the idea as
these are really old drivers and hopefully we get to remove them soon.

There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving files.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-3-kvalo@kernel.org

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wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directory

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the virtual drivers to a new virtual
directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_VIRTUAL li

wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directory

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the virtual drivers to a new virtual
directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_VIRTUAL like other vendors
have but then dropped the idea as we are not real drivers.

There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving
files. The order in menuconfig is slightly changed, the virtual drivers are now
last in the list.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-2-kvalo@kernel.org

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wireless: add plfxlc driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices

This is a driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices which use light to transmit
data, so they are not compatible with normal Wi-Fi devices. The

wireless: add plfxlc driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices

This is a driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices which use light to transmit
data, so they are not compatible with normal Wi-Fi devices. The driver uses
separate NL80211_BAND_LC band to distinguish from Wi-Fi. The driver is based
on 802.11 softMAC Architecture and uses native 802.11 for configuration and
management. Station and Ad-Hoc modes are supported.

The driver is compiled and tested in ARM, x86 architectures and compiled in
powerpc architecture. This driver implementation has been based on the zd1211rw
driver.

Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Raju <srini.raju@purelifi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224182042.132466-3-srini.raju@purelifi.com

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wfx: get out from the staging area

The wfx driver is now mature enough to leave the staging area.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel

wfx: get out from the staging area

The wfx driver is now mature enough to leave the staging area.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>

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wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

WDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks such
fundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,
and similar. As such, it was basica

wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

WDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks such
fundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,
and similar. As such, it was basically always unusable as is.

Back in 2016, in commit 8f20542386c5 ("wireless: deprecate WDS
and disable by default") I disabled it and made the Kconfig option
only available under CONFIG_EXPERT to turn it back on. Since then,
nobody has complained about that, and given the severe limitations
with the code, it's unlikely anyone would have a reason to.

Remove the Kconfig option now, so we can clean up the associated
code in follow-up patches.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.7d1e44c50e21.I2c0a1705fd6491d9ba3400c88415ee2c4832ae98@changeid
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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wireless: fix wiki website url in main Kconfig

The wiki url is still the old "wireless.kernel.org"
instead of the new "wireless.wiki.kernel.org"

Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Si

wireless: fix wiki website url in main Kconfig

The wiki url is still the old "wireless.kernel.org"
instead of the new "wireless.wiki.kernel.org"

Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200605154112.16277-3-f.suligoi@asem.it

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docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver section

Move ray_cs into Wi-Fi driver docs subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemlo

docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver section

Move ray_cs into Wi-Fi driver docs subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging

WILC1000 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT link controller module. The
WILC1000 connects to Microchip AVR/SMART MCUs, SMART MPUs, and other
processors with minima

wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging

WILC1000 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT link controller module. The
WILC1000 connects to Microchip AVR/SMART MCUs, SMART MPUs, and other
processors with minimal resource requirements with a simple
SPI/SDIO-to-Wi-Fi interface.

WILC1000 driver has been part of staging for few years. With
contributions from the community, it has improved significantly. Full
driver review has helped in achieving the current state.
The details for those reviews are captured in 1 & 2.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1537957525-11467-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1562896697-8002-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/

Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasi

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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docs: networking: convert ray_cs.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- use copyright symbol;
- add a document title;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- adjust identation, w

docs: networking: convert ray_cs.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- use copyright symbol;
- add a document title;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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mac80211-next: rtnetlink wifi simulation device

This device takes over an existing network device and produces a
new one that appears like a wireless connection, returning enough canned
responses to

mac80211-next: rtnetlink wifi simulation device

This device takes over an existing network device and produces a
new one that appears like a wireless connection, returning enough canned
responses to nl80211 to satisfy a standard connection manager. If
necessary, it can also be set up one step removed from an existing
network device, such as through a vlan/80211Q or macvlan connection to
not disrupt the existing network interface.

To use it to wrap a bare ethernet connection:

ip link add link eth0 name wlan0 type virt_wifi

You may have to rename or otherwise hide the eth0 from your connection
manager, as the original network link will become unusuable and only
the wireless wrapper will be functional. This can also be combined with
vlan or macvlan links on top of eth0 to share the network between
distinct links, but that requires support outside the machine for
accepting vlan-tagged packets or packets from multiple MAC addresses.

This is being used for Google's Remote Android Virtual Device project,
which runs Android devices in virtual machines. The standard network
interfaces provided inside the virtual machines are all ethernet.
However, Android is not interested in ethernet devices and would rather
connect to a wireless interface. This patch allows the virtual machine
guest to treat one of its network connections as wireless rather than
ethernet, satisfying Android's network connection requirements.

We believe this is a generally useful driver for simulating wireless
network connections in other environments where a wireless connection is
desired by some userspace process but is not available.

This is distinct from other testing efforts such as mac80211_hwsim by
being a cfg80211 device instead of mac80211 device, allowing straight
pass-through on the data plane instead of forcing packaging of ethernet
data into mac80211 frames.

Signed-off-by: A. Cody Schuffelen <schuffelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
Acked-by: Greg Hartman <ghartman@google.com>
Acked-by: Tristan Muntsinger <muntsinger@google.com>
[make it a tristate]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

This patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for Quantenna
QSR10G chipsets.

QSR10G (aka Pearl) is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac off

qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

This patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for Quantenna
QSR10G chipsets.

QSR10G (aka Pearl) is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac offering.
QSR10G supports 2 simultaneous WMACs - one 5G and one 2G.
5G WMAC supports 160M, 8x8 configuration. FW supports
up to 8 concurrent virtual interfaces on each WMAC.

Patch introduces 2 new drivers:
- qtnfmac.ko for interfacing with kernel wireless core
- qtnfmac_pearl_pcie.ko for interfacing with hardware over PCIe interface

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Lebed <dlebed@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Maksimenko <smaksimenko@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <smatyukevich@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Bindu Therthala <btherthala@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Huizhao Wang <hwang@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath <krath@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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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
* manag

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>

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mac80211_hwsim: move Kconfig entry for sorting alphabetically

mac80211_hwsim was not placed alphabetically correctly in menuconfig, fix that.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

ath: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Change menuconfig to config to keep the Kconfig entries unified. Part of
reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@

ath: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Change menuconfig to config to keep the Kconfig entries unified. Part of
reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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ti: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Rename WL_TI to WLAN_VENDOR_TI to match with other vendor configs and make sure
that it's enabled by default in new configs. Convert menuconfigs to regular
confi

ti: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Rename WL_TI to WLAN_VENDOR_TI to match with other vendor configs and make sure
that it's enabled by default in new configs. Convert menuconfigs to regular
configs to unify the wireless drivers menuconfig. Part of reorganising wireless
drivers directory and Kconfig.

Also remove WLCORE dependency to WL_TI. It should not be needed as WLCORE is
already under if WLAN_VENDOR_TI.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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mediatek: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

rt2x00: move under ralink vendor directory

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

rsi: add vendor Kconfig entry

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

realtek: create separate Kconfig file

Add new a Kconfig file and a vendor config for realtek. Also update MAINTAINERS
which we missed to do when earlier moving rtlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <k

realtek: create separate Kconfig file

Add new a Kconfig file and a vendor config for realtek. Also update MAINTAINERS
which we missed to do when earlier moving rtlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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prism54: move under intersil vendor directory

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

orinoco: move under intersil vendor directory

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

p54: move under intersil vendor directory

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

hostap: move under intersil vendor directory

Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>