trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.
this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
for signal:
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
for noise we currently only have dBm:
IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.
i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.
DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing
at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing
ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi
b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more
iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more
p54 unspec 127 n/a missing
rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
rt2400 dBm n/a
rt2500pci dBm n/a
rt2500usb dBm n/a
rt61pci dBm n/a
rt73usb dBm n/a
rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?)
rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?)
zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In commit 31ccc476b77234f6afb3 (mac80211: QoS related cleanups) I
accidentally changed these to use IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_QUEUES twice
which obviously is wrong, it should be IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES once.
Currently harmless as they're both the same value anyway.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this adds initial IBSS support for the zydas zd1211rw:
convince driver that it can do IBSS mode. add mac80211 beacon_update callback.
IBSS merge and TSF updates don't work yet, but it makes the driver usable in
ad-hoc networks.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Kill atmel_get_stats function, because by default it is used
identical internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c
No need to memset stats to 0, because they are allocated by kzalloc.
P.S. Someone should cleanup init_atmel_card function from unneeded
initializations to 0/NULL. Out of scope for this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwl3945 <---> mac80211 <----> wpa_supplicant <---> NetworkManager
When a hardware scan is completed and another scan is requested in less
than two seconds, iwlwifi will not do the second scan and will pass the
error code -EAGAIN back to mac80211 where it quickly dies. The error
code is not passed along to the calling program wpa_supplicant. After a
timeout, wpa_supplicant will just give up but it will not know why the
scan failed. This is a weakness in the design.
I ran into this issue when I was trying to figure out why it takes more
an a minute for NetworkManager to connect after Networking has been
disabled and then re-enabled. I found a good deal of unnecessary work
being done because mac80211 requests authentication when the interface
is not configured, the ANY mode. I created an experimental passive
(NOTANY) mode for mac80211 to eliminate this case. Then NetworkManager
became so fast that I ran into the iwlwifi 2 second delay next scan
issue which we are discussing.
The patch resolves the problem by bypassing the delay if the scan request
is a direct scan. It should do less harm to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@CLEMSON.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds a module parameter of fw_restart which determine if
the uCode will be restarted or not in case of error.
Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds sysfs version file that displays ucode version
and type.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch updates the levels of debug prints, leaving only one level
in each debug print.
It was anoying and caused unnecessary prints on hot path.
Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch ports the debug_level from sysfs/bus/pci/drivers/iwl4965
to /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/debug_level
Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Changed airo_read_stats function parameter to net_device.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch fixes spinlock priv->lock (apm_ops.init) is used before it has
been initialized.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes the 4965 prefix to form iwl_kw and iwl_tx_queue structs,
as they are used mostly in iwlcore now.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch splits ucode's and driver's shared memory Rx index access to
match 4965 and 5000 offsets.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch leverages mac80211 configure_filter to enable iwl3945
monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch leverages mac80211 configure_filter to enable iwl4965
monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves iwl_4965_init_alive_start to iwl-4965.c.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves iwl-sta into iwl-core.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch does the following:
1 - change hw_nic_init from a handler to a function
2 - move hw_nic_init function to iwlcore
3 - open a new file - iwl-tx.c
4 - move all Tx queues initialization (part of NIC init) to iwl-tx.c
5 - move iwl_rx_init, previously as part of the NIC init, to iwl-rx.c
6 - iwl4965_tfd_frame rename to iwl_tfd_frame
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves disabeling Tx FIFOs in NIC SCD to seperate handlers
in 4965 and 5000 cards.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves iwl4965_set_rxon_ht to iwlcore under name
iwl_set_rxon_ht. It also moves collateral changes
iwl_is_channel_extension and iwl_is_fat_tx_allowed.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch ports the debug_level to iwl_priv and changes
the format of the debug prints.
Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds iwl5000_build_addsta_hcmd handler.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves iwl4965_send_add_station to iwlcore
under new name iwl_send_add_sta.
Function uses build command handler in order to support
multiple HWs.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes 4965 mark from rx_packet.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds EEPROM dump in debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes 4965 mark form the station entry structure.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes override of association channel with HT control channel.
The scenario is currently happening because disassociation flow
doesn't clean previous association information (such as is_ht and control
channel).
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves partialy rx code into iwl-rx.c as part of iwlcore.
The second part of the code can be merged only with moving of tx
code as well.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch maps A-MPDU HW queue to mac80211 SW queue scheme (as introduced
in patch "mac80211: QoS related cleanups"), when trying to perform
ieee80211_wake_queue.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
CPUs at the same time.
Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive
parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills
the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one
for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this
is safe.
It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta
flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this
is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be
very simple using the new static inline functions this patch
introduces for accessing sta->flags.
Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't
be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the
same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which
is in a bh context.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch makes mac80211 only announce QoS/HT support when
the underlying hardware has four (or more) queues.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ron Rindjunksi <ron.rindjunksi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
kernel-provided clamp_val is identical, delete the private limit_value helper.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
kernel-provided clamp_val is identical, delete the private limit_value helper.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use kernel-provided bit rotation and unaligned access infrastructure rather
than opencoding it.
Some minor spacing adjustments as well.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Byteswap the constants rather than the frame_control member.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c: In function 'iwlcore_init_geos':
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c:323: error: implicit declaration of function 'iwlcore_init_ht_hw_capab'
This (or something like it) should be folded into the base patch to avoid
breaking bisection, please.
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
fix
drivers/net/lib8390.c: In function ‘ei_tx_err’:
drivers/net/lib8390.c:556: warning: unused variable ‘ei_local’
drivers/net/lib8390.c: In function ‘ei_rx_overrun’:
drivers/net/lib8390.c:819: warning: unused variable ‘ei_local’
and also trim whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Kill xl_get_stats function, because by default it is used identical
internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
No need to memset it to 0, because it is allocated by kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Kill sp_get_stats function, because by default it is used identical
internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
