Atheros wifi driver analysis, atheroswifi

Atheros wifi driver analysis, atheroswifi

Ar6003 driver document summary

 

 

1. wmi: wireless module interface // wireless module structure

2. bmi: bootloader message interface

3. htc: host target communications

4. wps: wifi protected setup

5. CS: connection services module

6. STA: station

7. AP: access point

 

 

Wireless application: production data and consumption data

Wireless module interface (WMI): communication protocol between host and target

Host/target communications (HTC): send and receive data

Hardware interface (ICF): Call the Hardware interface to send and receive data (sdio interface is used here)

Bootloader message interface (BMI): communication protocol when the wifi Chip starts. You can download the binfile to the wifi chip.

 

 

Ar6000 wifi driver analysis (AP Mode Analysis)

 

Main process of Code Execution

// Mount the sdio driver to the kernel and register the network device

Module_init (_ ar6000_init_module );

À _ ar6000_init_module

À status = ar6000_init_module ();

À status = HIFInit (& osdrvCallbacks );

À status = sdio_register_driver (& ar6k_driver); register the sdio Driver (the kernel sdio protocol stack called directly here)

À. probe = hifDeviceInserted, // execute the driver's probe function

À ret = hifEnableFunc (device, func );

À kthread_create (async_task, // A sdio asynchronous data sending process is enabled in the kernel

À taskFunc = startup_task; // start a kernel process and execute the startup_task process.

À if (osdrvCallbacks. deviceInsertedHandler (osdrvCallbacks. context, device ))! = A_ OK) // call the function pointer ar6000_android_avail_ev for wifi device installation. This function is registered in android_module_init.

À ar6000 _ android_avail_ev

À ret = ar6000_avail_ev_p (context, hif_handle );

À ar6000 _ avail_ev // This function pointer assignment is very tortuous. First, it is assigned to osdrvCallbacks in the ar6000_init_module (void) function. deviceInsertedHandler = ar6000_avail_ev; then, in android_module_init (& osdrvCallbacks); ar6000_avail_ev_p = osdrvCallbacks-> deviceinsertetedhandler;

À BMIInit (); // start the wifi Module

À ar-> arHtcTarget = HTCCreate (ar-> arHifDevice, & htcInfo); // create htc and disable interruption

À status = (ar6000_init (dev) = 0 )? A_ OK: A_ERROR; // initialize a network device

À (BMIDone (ar-> arHifDevice )! = A_ OK) // The bmi starts successfully.

À status = HTCStart (ar-> arHtcTarget); // start htc and enable interruption

À status = DevUnmaskInterrupts (& target-> Device); // enable interrupt and register the interrupt handler

À HIFUnMaskInterrupt (pDev-> HIFDevice); // registers the interrupt handler.

À ret = sdio_claim_irq (device-> func, hifIRQHandler); // register the interrupt handler. After the interrupt, The hifIRQHandler handler is called.

À if (register_netdev (dev) // register a network device with the kernel. The Initialization is complete.

 

// Code process after interruption

À hifIRQHandler (struct sdio_func * func) // interrupt processing function (guid. c)

À status = device-> htcCallbacks. dsrHandler (device-> htcCallbacks. context); // function pointer of the device processing function

À A _ STATUS DevDsrHandler (void * context); this function is filled in the HTCCreate function after htc is created: HTCCreate-> DevSetup à htcCallbacks. dsrHandler = DevDsrHandler; (ar6k_events.c)

À status = ProcessPendingIRQs (pDev, & done, & asyncProc); // The function for processing pending events, which will be processed cyclically here (ar6k_events.c)

À status = pDev-> MessagePendingCallback (); this function pointer is also the target-> Device. MessagePendingCallback = HTCRecvMessagePendingHandler filled in HTCCreate; (htc_recv.c)

À HTCRecvMessagePendingHandler ();

À DO_RCV_COMPLETION (pEndpoint, & container );

À DoRecvCompletion ();

À pEndpoint-> EpCallBacks. epRecv (pEndpoint-> EpCallBacks. pContext, pPacket); // This function pointer is the connect. epCallbacks. epRecv = ar6000_rx; ar6000_rx is a very important function.

À ar6000_rx (void * Context, HTC_PACKET * pPacket)

 

// Data sending Process

À ar6000_data_tx (struct sk_buff * skb, struct net_device * dev)

À HTCSendPkt (ar-> arHtcTarget, & cookie-> HtcPkt );

À return HTCSendPktsMultiple (HTCHandle, & queue );

À HTCTrySend (target, pEndpoint, pPktQueue );

À HTCIssueSend (target, pPacket );

À status = DevSendPacket (& target-> Device,

À status = HIFReadWrite (pDev-> HIFDevice, // passed to the sido Bus

À AddToAsyncList (device, busrequest); // Add the data packet to be sent to the asynchronous sending queue

À up (& device-> sem_async); // gets the semaphore and sends data using the kernel process.

À static int async_task (void * param) // send data

À _ HIFReadWrite (); // send data

À sdio_writesb (); sdio_memcpy_toio (); sdio_readsb (); sdio_memcpy_fromio ();

À down_interruptible (& busrequest-> sem_req )! = 0 // release the semaphore

 

 

// Interrupt sending or receiving process

À HTCRecvMessagePendingHandler

À status = HTCIssueRecv (target, pPacket); // receives data packets asynchronously.

À status = HIFReadWrite (pDev-> HIFDevice, // The command is sent to the sdio bus.

À is the same as the sending Process

// Sta connection process

À ar6000_rx (); when the connection command is received, ar-> arControlEp = ept = 1

À wmi_control_rx (arPriv-> arWmi, skb); // resolution command

À case (WMI_CONNECT_EVENTID): // connection command

À status = wmi_connect_event_rx (wmip, datap, len );

À A_WMI_CONNECT_EVENT (wmip-> wmi_devt, ev );

À ar6000_connect_event (devt), (pEvt ));

À wireless_send_event (arPriv-> arNetDev, IWEVREGISTERED, & wrqu, NULL); // send event wext-core.c to the network layer

À skb _ queue_tail (& dev_net (dev)-> wext_nlevents, skb); // wext-core.c

-------------------------------- Processed by the network layer --------------------------------------------------------------------

À sock _ ioctl (struct file * file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg) // net/socket. c

À err = dev_ioctl (net, cmd, argp); // net/core/dev. c

À return wext_handle_ioctl (net, & ifr, cmd, arg); // net/wireless/wext-core.c

À ret = wext_ioctl_dispatch (net, ifr, cmd, & info,

Ioctl_standard_call,

Ioctl_private_call); // net/wireless/wext-core.c

À ret = wireless_process_ioctl (net, ifr, cmd, info, standard, private); // net/wireless/wext-core.c

À return dev-> netdev_ops-> ndo_do_ioctl (dev, ifr, cmd); // This is the function registered with the registered network device. ndo_do_ioctl = ar6000_ioctl,

--------------------------- The function of the driver layer called at the network layer ----------------------------------------

À int ar6000_ioctl (); // ioctl. c

À case IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETKEY: // ioctl. c

À ar6000_ioctl_setkey (arPriv, & keydata); // ioctl. c

À status = ar6000_sendkey (arPriv, ik, keyUsage); // ioctl. c

À status = wmi_addKey_cmd ()

À status = wmi_cmd_send (wmip, osbuf, WMI_ADD_CIPHER_KEY_CMDID, sync_flag );

 

 

 

// Data transmission process

À ar6000_rx (); when the connection data is received, ept = 2

À ar6000_deliver_frames_to_nw_stack (void *) arPriv-> arNetDev, (void *) skb );

À A_NETIF_RX_NI (skb );

À netif _ rx_ni (skb) // transmits data to the ip layer

 

 

Hostapd: Set the ssid

À int main (int argc, char * argv []); // main. c

À interfaces. iface [I] = hostapd_interface_init (& interfaces, // main. c

À hostapd _ setup_interface (iface) {// main. c

À ret = setup_interface (iface); // hostapd. c

À return hostapd_setup_interface_complete (iface, 0); // hostapd. c

À if (hostapd_driver_commit (hapd) <0) {// ap_drv_ops.c

À return hapd-> driver-> commit (hapd-> drv_priv); //. commit = ar6000_commit assigned in driver_ar6000.c

À ar6000 _ commit (void * priv) // driver_ar6000.c

-------------------- Enter the driver layer through ioctl at the application layer ---------------------------------------------------------------

À if (ioctl (drv-> ioctl_sock, SIOCSIWCOMMIT, & iwr) <0) {// (iw_handler) ar6000_ioctl_siwcommit assigned in wireless_ext.c,

À ar6000 _ ioctl_siwcommit (struct net_device * dev, // wireless_ext.c

À ar6000 _ ap_mode_profile_commit (arPriv); // ar6000_dr.c

À wmi _ ap_profile_commit (arPriv-> arWmi, & p); // wmi. c

À status = wmi_pai_send (wmip, osbuf, WMI_AP_CONFIG_COMMIT_CMDID, NO_SYNC_WMIFLAG); // wmi. c

 

The wireless NIC Driver of the atheros must be compatible with the wireless wifi link 5100

ATHEROS AR5xxx Series Wireless Network Card latest driver 7.6.0.108 For Win2000/XP/XP-64/Vista-64

Drivers.21tx.com/2008/05/06/11507.html

-- This is basically suitable for all common operating systems currently.
Reference: drivers.21tx.com/2008/05/06/11507.html

What is qualcomm atheros wifi driver lnstallation? Can it be deleted? What is the impact of deletion?

This is your wireless NIC Driver. qualcomm atheros is a company name. It cannot be deleted, deleted, and your wireless Nic cannot be used.