13d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig WIRELESS_EXT 23d23e349SJohannes Berg bool 33d23e349SJohannes Berg 43d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig WEXT_CORE 53d23e349SJohannes Berg def_bool y 63d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211_WEXT || WIRELESS_EXT 73d23e349SJohannes Berg 83d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig WEXT_PROC 93d23e349SJohannes Berg def_bool y 103d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on PROC_FS 113d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on WEXT_CORE 123d23e349SJohannes Berg 133d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig WEXT_SPY 143d23e349SJohannes Berg bool 153d23e349SJohannes Berg 163d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig WEXT_PRIV 173d23e349SJohannes Berg bool 183d23e349SJohannes Berg 19704232c2SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211 20b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez tristate "cfg80211 - wireless configuration API" 211f87f7d3SJohannes Berg depends on RFKILL || !RFKILL 22b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez ---help--- 23b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez cfg80211 is the Linux wireless LAN (802.11) configuration API. 24b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez Enable this if you have a wireless device. 25b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez 26b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez For more information refer to documentation on the wireless wiki: 27b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez 28b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211 29b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez 30b275f285SLuis R. Rodriguez When built as a module it will be called cfg80211. 31704232c2SJohannes Berg 32aff89a9bSJohannes Bergconfig NL80211_TESTMODE 33aff89a9bSJohannes Berg bool "nl80211 testmode command" 34aff89a9bSJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 35aff89a9bSJohannes Berg help 36aff89a9bSJohannes Berg The nl80211 testmode command helps implementing things like 37aff89a9bSJohannes Berg factory calibration or validation tools for wireless chips. 38aff89a9bSJohannes Berg 39aff89a9bSJohannes Berg Select this option ONLY for kernels that are specifically 40aff89a9bSJohannes Berg built for such purposes. 41aff89a9bSJohannes Berg 42aff89a9bSJohannes Berg Debugging tools that are supposed to end up in the hands of 43aff89a9bSJohannes Berg users should better be implemented with debugfs. 44aff89a9bSJohannes Berg 45aff89a9bSJohannes Berg Say N. 46aff89a9bSJohannes Berg 47f7969969SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS 48f7969969SJohannes Berg bool "enable developer warnings" 49f7969969SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 50f7969969SJohannes Berg default n 51f7969969SJohannes Berg help 52f7969969SJohannes Berg This option enables some additional warnings that help 53*573a2b51SOla Olsson cfg80211 developers and driver developers, but beware that 54*573a2b51SOla Olsson they can also trigger due to races with userspace. 55f7969969SJohannes Berg 56f7969969SJohannes Berg For example, when a driver reports that it was disconnected 57f7969969SJohannes Berg from the AP, but the user disconnects manually at the same 58f7969969SJohannes Berg time, the warning might trigger spuriously due to races. 59f7969969SJohannes Berg 60f7969969SJohannes Berg Say Y only if you are developing cfg80211 or a driver based 61f7969969SJohannes Berg on it (or mac80211). 62f7969969SJohannes Berg 63f7969969SJohannes Berg 64b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguezconfig CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS 65b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez bool "cfg80211 certification onus" 66b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez depends on CFG80211 && EXPERT 67b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez default n 68b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez ---help--- 69b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez You should disable this option unless you are both capable 70b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez and willing to ensure your system will remain regulatory 71b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez compliant with the features available under this option. 72b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez Some options may still be under heavy development and 73b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez for whatever reason regulatory compliance has not or 74b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez cannot yet be verified. Regulatory verification may at 75b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez times only be possible until you have the final system 76b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez in place. 77b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez 78b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez This option should only be enabled by system integrators 79b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez or distributions that have done work necessary to ensure 80b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez regulatory certification on the system with the enabled 81b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez features. Alternatively you can enable this option if 82b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez you are a wireless researcher and are working in a controlled 83b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez and approved environment by your local regulatory agency. 84b594bab9SLuis R. Rodriguez 8594fc661fSIlan Peerconfig CFG80211_REG_CELLULAR_HINTS 8694fc661fSIlan Peer bool "cfg80211 regulatory support for cellular base station hints" 8794fc661fSIlan Peer depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS 8894fc661fSIlan Peer ---help--- 8994fc661fSIlan Peer This option enables support for parsing regulatory hints 9094fc661fSIlan Peer from cellular base stations. If enabled and at least one driver 9194fc661fSIlan Peer claims support for parsing cellular base station hints the 9294fc661fSIlan Peer regulatory core will allow and parse these regulatory hints. 9394fc661fSIlan Peer The regulatory core will only apply these regulatory hints on 9494fc661fSIlan Peer drivers that support this feature. You should only enable this 9594fc661fSIlan Peer feature if you have tested and validated this feature on your 9694fc661fSIlan Peer systems. 9794fc661fSIlan Peer 98174e0cd2SIlan Peerconfig CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR 99174e0cd2SIlan Peer bool "cfg80211 support for NO_IR relaxation" 100174e0cd2SIlan Peer depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS 101174e0cd2SIlan Peer ---help--- 102174e0cd2SIlan Peer This option enables support for relaxation of the NO_IR flag for 103174e0cd2SIlan Peer situations that certain regulatory bodies have provided clarifications 104174e0cd2SIlan Peer on how relaxation can occur. This feature has an inherent dependency on 105174e0cd2SIlan Peer userspace features which must have been properly tested and as such is 106174e0cd2SIlan Peer not enabled by default. 107174e0cd2SIlan Peer 108174e0cd2SIlan Peer A relaxation feature example is allowing the operation of a P2P group 109174e0cd2SIlan Peer owner (GO) on channels marked with NO_IR if there is an additional BSS 110174e0cd2SIlan Peer interface which associated to an AP which userspace assumes or confirms 111174e0cd2SIlan Peer to be an authorized master, i.e., with radar detection support and DFS 112174e0cd2SIlan Peer capabilities. However, note that in order to not create daisy chain 113*573a2b51SOla Olsson scenarios, this relaxation is not allowed in cases where the BSS client 114174e0cd2SIlan Peer is associated to P2P GO and in addition the P2P GO instantiated on 115174e0cd2SIlan Peer a channel due to this relaxation should not allow connection from 116174e0cd2SIlan Peer non P2P clients. 117174e0cd2SIlan Peer 118174e0cd2SIlan Peer The regulatory core will apply these relaxations only for drivers that 119174e0cd2SIlan Peer support this feature by declaring the appropriate channel flags and 120174e0cd2SIlan Peer capabilities in their registration flow. 121174e0cd2SIlan Peer 122bc92afd9SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS 123bc92afd9SJohannes Berg bool "enable powersave by default" 124bc92afd9SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 125bc92afd9SJohannes Berg default y 126bc92afd9SJohannes Berg help 127bc92afd9SJohannes Berg This option enables powersave mode by default. 128bc92afd9SJohannes Berg 129bc92afd9SJohannes Berg If this causes your applications to misbehave you should fix your 130bc92afd9SJohannes Berg applications instead -- they need to register their network 131bc92afd9SJohannes Berg latency requirement, see Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt. 132bc92afd9SJohannes Berg 1331ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguezconfig CFG80211_DEBUGFS 1341ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguez bool "cfg80211 DebugFS entries" 1353d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 1363d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on DEBUG_FS 1371ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguez ---help--- 138*573a2b51SOla Olsson You can enable this if you want debugfs entries for cfg80211. 1391ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguez 1401ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguez If unsure, say N. 1411ac61302SLuis R. Rodriguez 1423b377ea9SJohn W. Linvilleconfig CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB 1436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database" if EXPERT 1443b377ea9SJohn W. Linville default n 1453b377ea9SJohn W. Linville depends on CFG80211 1463b377ea9SJohn W. Linville ---help--- 1473b377ea9SJohn W. Linville This option generates an internal data structure representing 1483b377ea9SJohn W. Linville the wireless regulatory rules described in net/wireless/db.txt 1493b377ea9SJohn W. Linville and includes code to query that database. This is an alternative 1503b377ea9SJohn W. Linville to using CRDA for defining regulatory rules for the kernel. 1513b377ea9SJohn W. Linville 152fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez Using this option requires some parsing of the db.txt at build time, 153fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez the parser will be upkept with the latest wireless-regdb updates but 154fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez older wireless-regdb formats will be ignored. The parser may later 155fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez be replaced to avoid issues with conflicts on versions of 156fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez wireless-regdb. 157fa96aabbSLuis R. Rodriguez 1583b377ea9SJohn W. Linville For details see: 1593b377ea9SJohn W. Linville 1603b377ea9SJohn W. Linville http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory 1613b377ea9SJohn W. Linville 1623b377ea9SJohn W. Linville Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N. 1633b377ea9SJohn W. Linville 164b6863036SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT 165b6863036SJohannes Berg bool "support CRDA" if CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB 166b6863036SJohannes Berg default y 167b6863036SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 168b6863036SJohannes Berg help 169b6863036SJohannes Berg You should enable this option unless you know for sure you have no 170b6863036SJohannes Berg need for it, for example when using internal regdb (above.) 171b6863036SJohannes Berg 172b6863036SJohannes Berg If unsure, say Y. 173b6863036SJohannes Berg 1743d23e349SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211_WEXT 1756d00ec05SJohannes Berg bool "cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility" if !CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT 1763d23e349SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 1773d23e349SJohannes Berg select WEXT_CORE 1782afe38d1SJohannes Berg default y if CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT 1793d23e349SJohannes Berg help 1803d23e349SJohannes Berg Enable this option if you need old userspace for wireless 1813d23e349SJohannes Berg extensions with cfg80211-based drivers. 18222bb1be4SJohannes Berg 1832afe38d1SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT 1842afe38d1SJohannes Berg bool 1852afe38d1SJohannes Berg depends on CFG80211 1862afe38d1SJohannes Berg help 1872afe38d1SJohannes Berg Drivers should select this option if they require cfg80211's 1882afe38d1SJohannes Berg wext compatibility symbols to be exported. 1892afe38d1SJohannes Berg 1907e272fcfSJohn W. Linvilleconfig LIB80211 191f3684343SJohannes Berg tristate 1927e272fcfSJohn W. Linville default n 1937e272fcfSJohn W. Linville help 1947e272fcfSJohn W. Linville This options enables a library of common routines used 1957e272fcfSJohn W. Linville by IEEE802.11 wireless LAN drivers. 1967e272fcfSJohn W. Linville 197f3684343SJohannes Berg Drivers should select this themselves if needed. 198274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville 199274bfb8dSJohn W. Linvilleconfig LIB80211_CRYPT_WEP 200274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville tristate 201274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville 202274bfb8dSJohn W. Linvilleconfig LIB80211_CRYPT_CCMP 203274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville tristate 204274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville 205274bfb8dSJohn W. Linvilleconfig LIB80211_CRYPT_TKIP 206274bfb8dSJohn W. Linville tristate 2076f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville 2086f16bf3bSJohn W. Linvilleconfig LIB80211_DEBUG 2096f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville bool "lib80211 debugging messages" 2106f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville depends on LIB80211 2116f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville default n 2126f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville ---help--- 2136f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville You can enable this if you want verbose debugging messages 2146f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville from lib80211. 2156f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville 2166f16bf3bSJohn W. Linville If unsure, say N. 217