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155470 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Zhu Yi
1f00fca5c8 cfg80211: set_default_key only for WEP
We invoke the cfg80211 set_default_key callback only for WEP key
configuring.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:27 -04:00
Larry Finger
e6a3f551bc p54: Eliminate unnecessary initialization
In two places, variables are unnecessilarly initialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:27 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
f742880c9c mac80211: fix spare warnings in driver-trace.h
This patch fixes the following errors:

driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression
[...]
driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:71:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:71:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:71:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:99:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:99:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:99:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:148:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:148:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:148:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:248:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:248:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:248:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:446:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:446:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:446:1:    right side has type int

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:27 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
a99d02483a mac80211: do not monitor the connection while scanning
mac80211 constantly monitors the connection to the associated AP
in order to check if it is out of reach/dead.

This is absolutely fine most of the time.
Except when there is a scheduled scan for the whole neighborhood.
After all this path could trigger while scanning on different channel.
Or even worse: this AP probing triggers a WARN_ON in rate_lowest_index
when the scan code did a band transition!
( http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=449304 )

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:27 -04:00
Roel Kluin
9ab56078e6 arlan: inverted logic?
Inverted logic

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:27 -04:00
Gabor Juhos
f9b604f6c2 ath9k: make use ath9k_hw_wait int ath9k_hw_reset_tsf
We have a dedicated function for this kind of checks, use that
instead of duplicating the code.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Gabor Juhos
1b7e528b2e ath9k: wake up the chip for TSF reset
If we are in NETWORK SLEEP state, AR_SLP32_TSF_WRITE_STATUS limit
always exceeds in 'ath9k_hw_reset_tsf', because reading of the
AR_SLP3 register always return with the magic 0xdeadbeef value.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Stefan Weil
da3c821f54 wl12xx: fix spelling
Changes (comments and debug output):
* couldnt -> couldn't
* frmware -> firmware
* recevied -> received

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Luis Correia
4951348109 rt2x00: Comment spellchecking
Fix a bunch of spelling errors in the rt2x00 drivers

Signed-off-by: Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
30a12a8fbb iwlwifi: change iwl_enable/disable_interrupts to "inline"
iwl_enable_interrupts is being called inside the interrupt,
change from function call to inline

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
4c423a2b0c iwlwifi: inform user about rfkill state changes
rfkill state changes are mostly available through debug messages.
These are significant enough to always make user aware of so
we turn them into warnings.

Also insert a missing newline in some rfkill related debug message.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
58dba728b1 iwlwifi: clarify hardware error message
When a hardware error is detected we need to be clear about that
and not create impression that the microcode is able to deal
with it.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
a562a9dda7 iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly
* Deprecate the "debug50" module parameter used to obtain
  5000 series and up debugging. Replace it with "debug" module
  parameter to match with original driver and be consistent
  between them. The "debug50" module parameter can still be used,
  except that the module parameter is not writable in keeping
  with its previous state. We currently just mark it as "deprecated"
  and do not have it in the feature-removal-schedule. Some more
  cleanup of module parameters needs to be done and can then be
  entered together.

* Only make "debug" module parameters visible if the driver
  is compiled with CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG. This will eliminate
  a lot of confusion where users think they have set debug flags
  but yet cannot see any debug output.

* Make module parameters writable. This eliminates the need for the
  "debug_level" sysfs file, which can now also be deprecated and
  added to feature-removal-schedule. This file is in significant
  use though with many iwlwifi documents and text referring users
  to it. We can thus not take its removal lightly and keep it around.

With iwlcore shared between iwlagn and iwl3945 we really do not need
debug module parameters for each but can instead have one debug
module parameter for the iwlcore module. The same issue is here as
with the sysfs file - a lot of iwlwifi documentation and text (like
bug reports) rely on iwlagn and iwl3945 having this module parameter,
so changing this to a module parameter of iwlcore will have significant
impact and we do not do this for that reason.

One consequence of this patch is that if a user is running a system
with both 3945 and later hardware then the setting of the one module
parameter will affect the value of the other. The likelihood of this
seems low - and even if this setup is present it does not seem like an
issue for both modules to run with the same debug level.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
34a66de628 iwlwifi: uCode Alive notification with timeout
Wait for REPLY_ALIVE notification from init and runtime uCode.
based on the type of REPLY_ALIVE, different status bit will be set to
wake up the queue:
STATUS_INIT_UCODE_ALIVE for init uCode
STATUS_RT_UCODE_ALIVE for runtime uCode.

If timeout, attempt to download the failing uCode image again. This can
only be done for the init ucode images of all iwlagn devices and the
runtime ucode image of the 5000 series and up. If there is a problem
with the 4965 runtime ucode coming up we restart the interface and thus
trigger a new download of the init ucode also.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00
Jay Sternberg
cce53aa347 iwlwifi: update 1000 series API version to match firmware
firmware file now contains build number so API needs to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b23a0524a3 iwlwifi: checking unknown HW type
When deciding NVM type, if the HW type is unknown, report error and exit
with -ENOENT. This check should prevent incorrect behavior by assuming
the wrong NVM type.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
e5108d075c iwlwifi: Led blinking counting both tx and rx
For controlling led blinking, counting both tx and rx data traffic; this
will be able to handle traffic in either direction

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a283c0116b iwlwifi: add led debugfs function
Adding debugfs file to show current led blinking rate
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/iwlagn/data/led

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
2d1bb9e58c iwlagn: do not send key clear commands when rfkill enabled
Do all key clearing except sending sommands to device when rfkill
enabled. When rfkill enabled the interface is brought down and will
be brought back up correctly after rfkill is enabled again.

Same change is not needed for iwl3945 as it ignores return code when
sending key clearing command to device.

This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13742

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
5e215169f4 iwlwifi: make led functions generic
Led functions are generic for all the devices except 3945, so remove the
reference to 4965

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Jay Sternberg
cc0f555d51 iwlwifi: Handle new firmware file with ucode build number in header
Adding new API version to account for change to ucode file format.  New
header includes the build number of the ucode.  This build number is the
SVN revision thus allowing for exact correlation to the code that
generated it.

The header adds the build number so that older ucode images can also be
enhanced to include the build in the future.

some cleanup in iwl_read_ucode needed to ensure old header not used and
reduce unnecessary references through pointer with the data is already
in heap variable.

Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
244294e83f iwlwifi: fix rx signal quality reporting in dmesg
Fix quality incorrectly reported as signal strength value.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:24 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
02c06e4abc iwlagn: modify digital SVR for 1000
On 1000, there are two Switching Voltage Regulators (SVR). The first one
apply digital voltage level (1.32V) for PCIe block and core. We need to
use this regulator to solve a stability issue related to noisy DC2DC
line in the silicon.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:23 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
436b37c594 p54: fix a fw crash caused by statistic feedback
This patch fixes a bug which crawled into the tree with the split-up
changes.

The memory-manager wasn't aware of the statistic feedback
extra_len space requirements and happily placed following frames
into the allegedly free spots.

Thanks fly out to Larry Finger for taking the time to
test all (permutations of) patches and theories all day long.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:22 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
46df10ae44 p54: fix beaconing related firmware crash
This patch fixes a firmware crash which can be provoked by changing
operation mode.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
12f49a79cd p54: remove useless code
This patch removes some useless checks in recv/xmit code.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg
25e83c490b cfg80211: don't optimise wext calls too much
In the wext code I tried to not reconnect all the time
when the user wasn't really sure what they were doing,
like setting the BSSID back to the same value it was.
However, this optimisation should only be done while
associated so that setting the BSSID back to the same
value that it was actually triggers a new association
if not currently associated. To achieve, that, put the
relevant code into the !IDLE case instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Zhu Yi
d4b1a6876f cfg80211: remove WARN_ON in __cfg80211_sme_scan_done
cfg80211_sme_scan_done() can be called (by fullmac cards) with
wdev->conn == NULL when CFG80211_SME_CONNECTING. We quit silently
instead of WARN_ON in this case.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Zhu Yi
6e5db0a845 iwmc3200wifi: remove key caches in driver
cfg80211 now guarantees keys are set after connecting. We can remove
the key cache code from the driver now.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Zhu Yi
b6c321718e iwmc3200wifi: make iwm_send_wifi_if_cmd return 0 on success
We used to return the result of wait_event_interruptible_timeout()
which is the remaining timeout on success. But this information is
not used by any of its callers. So we just return 0 on success.
This fixed a erroneous return value bug for iwm_set_key().

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Zhu Yi
0e371f1a0c iwmc3200wifi: remove setting WEP keys before setting essid support
The recent cfg80211 "rework key operation" patch from Johannes Berg
makes sure keys are set only after the connection has been
established. So we can remove the setting WEP keys before essid
support from the driver.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:21 -04:00
Samuel Ortiz
9967d46aa5 iwmc3200wifi: cfg80211 managed mode port
This patch ports iwmc3200wifi to the cfg80211 managed mode API.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:20 -04:00
Zhu Yi
4fdd81f5f2 iwmc3200wifi: use correct debug level
This patch uses TX and RX instead of NTF debug levels in some hot
paths.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:20 -04:00
Zhu Yi
49b7772776 iwmc3200wifi: set cipher_suites before registering wiphy
We need to specify all the cipher suites we supported. Otherwise
cfg80211_validate_key_settings() will fail when we are setting
keys.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:20 -04:00
Zhu Yi
3a0e4851c9 iwmc3200wifi: hardware does not support IP checksum
The iwmc3200wifi hardware doesn't support IP checksum. So mark the
skb->ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE instead of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:20 -04:00
Zhu Yi
1cc589b9e7 iwmc3200wifi: fix UMAC INIT_COMPLETE notification handling
The patch fixes the missing UMAC iwm_umac_wifi_in_hdr header in
the UMAC INIT_COMPLETE (iwm_umac_notif_init_complete) notification.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:20 -04:00
Larry Finger
ea9edaf6bc hostap_cs: Enable shared interrupts
The hostap_cs driver is programmed for exclusive rather that shared
interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Jack Schneider <puck@dp-indexing.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e91d83346a wireless: remove print_mac uses
Use %pM instead, and also remove stray variables
declared with DECLARE_MAC_BUF.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan
04dc882d60 ath9k: Add AR9287 based chipsets' register information.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
ae9e4b0d1a cfg80211: treat ieee80211_regdom hints as user hints
We were treating ieee80211_regdom module parameter hints
as core hints, this means we were not letting the user help
compliance further when using the module parameter. It also
meant that users with a device with a custom regulatory
domain set (wiphy->custom_regulatory) using this module
parameter were being stuck to the original default core
static regualtory domain. We fix this by using the static
cfg80211_regdomain alpha2 as the core hint and treating the
module parameter separately.

All iwlwifi and ath5k/ath9k/ar9170 devices which world roam
set the wiphy->custom_regulatory. This change allows users
using this module parameter to have it trated as a a proper
user hint and not have it ignored.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
64839170be ath9k: disable radio when all devices are marked idle
This uses the new configuration changes indicated up by
mac80211 when all interfaces are marked idle. We need to do
a little more work as we have our own set of virtual
wiphys within ath9k.

Only when all virtual wiphys are inactive do we allow an idle
state change for a wiphy to trigger disabling the radio.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Gabor Juhos
709ade9eb8 ath9k: serialize ath9k_ps_{wakeup,restore} calls
These functions are changing the power mode of the chip, but this may
have unpredictable effects, if another code are trying to set the power
mode via 'ath9k_hw_setpower' in the same time from another context.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:19 -04:00
Gabor Juhos
0bc0798b76 ath9k: uninline ath9k_ps_{wakeup,restore} functions
Uninline these functions before we add functional changes to them.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Gabor Juhos
04717ccd80 ath9k: serialize ath9k_hw_setpower calls
Because ath9k_setpower is called from various contexts, we have to
protect it against concurrent calls.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
ebaa24534e ath9k: Remove pointless ath9k_ps_restore() in ath_detach()
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
c41d92dc9d ath9k: Handle tx desc shortage more appropriately
Update tx BA window and complete the frame as failed
one if we can't clone the holding descriptor due to
unavailability of descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
8e7f98b569 ath9k: Remove bogus assert in ath_clone_txbuf()
oops, this one should be part of the original patch
"ath9k: downgrade assert in ath_clone_txbuf()"

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
164ace3853 ath9k: Fix TX hang issue with Atheros chipsets
The hardware doesn't generate interrupts in some cases and so work
around this by monitoring the TX status periodically and reset the
chip if required.

This behavior of the hardware not generating the TX interrupts can
be noticed through ath9k debugfs interrupt statistics when heavy
traffic is being sent from STA to AP. One can easily see this behavior
when the STA is transmitting at a higher rates. The interrupt statistics
in the debugfs interface clearly shows that only RX interrupts alone
being generated and TX being stuck.

TX should be monitored through a timer and reset the chip only when
frames are queued to the hardware but TX interrupts are not generated
for the same even after one second. Also, we shouldn't remove holding
descriptor from AC queue if it happens to be the only descriptor and
schedule TX aggregation regarless of queue depth as it improves
scheduling of AMPDUs from software to hardware queue.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:18 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
dd8b15b027 ath9k: RX stucks during heavy traffic in HT40 mode.
Running iperf along with p2p traffic on both TX and RX side then
stop one side, then stop the other side, then start it up again,
eventually the STA gets into a mode that it can not pass data at
all.

A hardware workaround for invalid RSSI can make FIFO write pointer
to jump over read pointer, causing RX data corruption and repeated
DMA. Both TX and RX works fine when the workaround is disabled.

To replace the original hardware work around, software looks for
frames with post delimiter CRC error and mark the RSSI invalid so
that the upperlayer will not use the RSSI associated with this
frame. So disable the hardware workaround by updating the appropriate
registers.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:17 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
a59b5a5e68 ath9k: Manipulate and report the correct RSSI
RSSI reported by the RX descriptor requires little manipulation.
Manipulate and report the correct RSSI to the stack. This will
fix the improper signal levels reported by iwconfig iw dev wlanX
station dump. Also the Link Quality reported seems to be varying
(falls to zero also sometimes) when iperf is run from STA to AP.

Also use the default noise floor for now as the one reported
during the caliberation seems to be wrong.

The Signal and Link Quality before this patch (taken while TX is
in progress from STA to AP)

09:59:13.285428037 Link Quality=29/70  Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:13.410660084 Link Quality=20/70  Signal level=-90 dBm
09:59:13.586864392 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.710296281 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.821683064 Link Quality=25/70  Signal level=-85 dBm
09:59:13.933402989 Link Quality=24/70  Signal level=-86 dBm
09:59:14.045839276 Link Quality=26/70  Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.193926673 Link Quality=23/70  Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:14.306230262 Link Quality=31/70  Signal level=-79 dBm
09:59:14.419459667 Link Quality=26/70  Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.530711167 Link Quality=37/70  Signal level=-73 dBm
09:59:14.642593962 Link Quality=29/70  Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:14.754361169 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.866217355 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.976963623 Link Quality=28/70  Signal level=-82 dBm
09:59:15.089149809 Link Quality=26/70  Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:15.205039887 Link Quality=27/70  Signal level=-83 dBm
09:59:15.316368003 Link Quality=23/70  Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.427684036 Link Quality=36/70  Signal level=-74 dBm
09:59:15.539756380 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:15.650549093 Link Quality=22/70  Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:15.761171672 Link Quality=32/70  Signal level=-78 dBm
09:59:15.872793750 Link Quality=23/70  Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.984421694 Link Quality=22/70  Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:16.097315093 Link Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm

The link quality and signal level after this patch (take while
TX is in progress from STA to AP)

17:21:25.627848091 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.762805607 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.875521888 Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:25.987468448 Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.100628151 Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.213129671 Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.324923070 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.436831357 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.610356973 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.723340047 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.835715293 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:26.949542748 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.062261613 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.174511563 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.287616232 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.400598119 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.511381404 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.624530421 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.737807109 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.850861352 Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.963369436 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:28.076582289 Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:17 -04:00