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>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
Driver core: struct class remove children list
block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits)
USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect()
USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes
usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb
USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant
USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface
USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup
USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling
USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure
USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg
usb: fix compile warning in isp1760
USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver
USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering
USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem
usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse
USB: isp1760: fix printk format
USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver
USB: add association.h
...
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits)
net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c.
ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.
netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange
netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages
irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2)
sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.
tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters
DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state
DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages
DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove
sky2: fix simple define thinko
[netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
[netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX
[netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment
...
There is a possible data race in the page table walking code. After the split
ptlock patches, it actually seems to have been introduced to the core code, but
even before that I think it would have impacted some architectures (powerpc
and sparc64, at least, walk the page tables without taking locks eg. see
find_linux_pte()).
The race is as follows:
The pte page is allocated, zeroed, and its struct page gets its spinlock
initialized. The mm-wide ptl is then taken, and then the pte page is inserted
into the pagetables.
At this point, the spinlock is not guaranteed to have ordered the previous
stores to initialize the pte page with the subsequent store to put it in the
page tables. So another Linux page table walker might be walking down (without
any locks, because we have split-leaf-ptls), and find that new pte we've
inserted. It might try to take the spinlock before the store from the other
CPU initializes it. And subsequently it might read a pte_t out before stores
from the other CPU have cleared the memory.
There are also similar races in higher levels of the page tables. They
obviously don't involve the spinlock, but could see uninitialized memory.
Arch code and hardware pagetable walkers that walk the pagetables without
locks could see similar uninitialized memory problems, regardless of whether
split ptes are enabled or not.
I prefer to put the barriers in core code, because that's where the higher
level logic happens, but the page table accessors are per-arch, and open-coding
them everywhere I don't think is an option. I'll put the read-side barriers
in alpha arch code for now (other architectures perform data-dependent loads
in order).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all
architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all
other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various fixes to Atmel's high speed UDC driver.
* Issue some missing disconnect() calls. Currently they are only made
when VBUS power goes away (on boards where the driver can sense such
changes), but that's not enough for gadget drivers to clean out all
the state that's needed. Missing calls were:
- After USB reset, before starting enumeration.
- When unregistering a gadget driver, before unbind().
* Don't assume gadget drivers provide disconnect callbacks; make sure
to not call through a null pointer!
* When the driver doesn't provide an unbind() callback, refuse to
unregister it.
Also remove two bogus "error" messages:
* Related to mis-handling of disconnect() ... don't emit error messages
for disconnect() handlers that disable endpoints. All of them should
be doing that; the problem is (unfixed) oddness in atmel_usba_udc.
* Don't emit a diagnostic for a curious and transient nonfatal error
that shows up sometimes with EP0.
Those messages spammed syslog, for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Minor fixes to pxa27x udc driver :
- don't clobber driver model bus_id field
- wrong endianess fix (no functional change; cpu is little-endian)
- double udc disable fix
- resume/suspend fix (OTG hold bit)
- make driver pxa27x dependant (check cpu at runtime)
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <rjarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:02:22AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> >
> > test_ctrl_queue expects (?) positive and negative errnos.
> > what is going on here?
>
> The sign is just a way to flag something:
>
> /* some faults are allowed, not required */
>
> The negative ones are required. Positive codes are optional,
> in the sense that, depending on how the peripheral happens
> to be implemented, they won't necessarily be triggered.
>
> For example, the test to fetch a device qualifier desriptor
> must succeed if the device is running at high speed. So that
> test is marked as negative. But when it's full speed, it
> could legitimately fail; marked as positive. And so on for
> other tests.
>
> Look at how the codes are *interpreted* to see it work.
Lets document it.
Based on comment from David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Microchip has changed the PICDEM FS USB demo device (0x04d8:000c)
to use bulk transfer and not interrupt transfer. So I've updated the libusb
based program here (Post #31).
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=106426&mpage=2
So I believe that the in-kernel ldusb driver will no longer work with the
demo firmware. It should be removed.
Signed-off-by: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Hund <MHund@LD-Didactic.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
