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Rajkumar Manoharan
9cf13668a5 ath9k_htc: Fix beacon distribution in IBSS mode
This patch ensures fair beacon distribution in IBSS mode
by configuring proper CWmin based on slot time.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24 15:54:32 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
9094537c3a ath9k: Fix tx struck state with paprd
Paprd needs to be done only on active chains(not for all the chains
that hw can support). The paprd training frames which are sent
for inactive chains would be hanging on the hw queue without
getting transmitted and would make the connection so unstable.
This issue happens only with the hw which supports paprd cal(ar9003).

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24 15:54:31 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
ed627be38a airo: remove "basic_rate" module option
The "basic_rate" module option is not implemented correctly.  If the
rate was set to zero it was supposed to set it to "basic_rate | 0x80".
Unfortunately the check to see if what zero was wrong and it checked
"!ai->config.rates" (which is always false) instead of
"!ai->config.rates[i]".

This option was just used for development and it wasn't documented
anywhere.  Instead of fixing it, we can just remove it.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24 15:54:29 -04:00
John W. Linville
29ad2facd4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
	net/mac80211/main.c
2010-09-24 15:52:34 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6e5c2b4e8a ath9k: make the driver specific rate control module optional
ath9k can use minstrel_ht instead, so it makes sense to save some space here.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:35 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
334b06029e ath9k: move ath_tx_aggr_check() to the rate control module
It is not used anywhere else and can be made static

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:34 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
90fa539ca3 ath9k: clean up / fix aggregation session flush
The tid aggregation cleanup is a bit fragile, as it discards failed
subframes in some places, and retransmits them in others. This could
block the cleanup of an existing aggregation session, if a retransmission
for a tid is issued, yet the tid is never scheduled again because of
the cleanup state.

Fix this by getting rid of as many subframes as possible, as early
as possible, and immediately transmitting pending subframes as regular
HT frames instead of waiting for the cleanup to complete.

Drop all pending subframes while keeping track of the Block ACK window
during aggregate tx completion to prevent sending out stale subframes,
which could confuse the receiver side.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:33 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
231c3a1f06 ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition
A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the
cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure
for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window
and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session
until the old one has been cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:31 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
81ee13ba7e ath9k: clean up block ack window handling
There's no reason to keep pointers to pending tx buffers around, if they're
only used to keep track of which frames are still pending. Use a bitfield
instead.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:30 -04:00
Eliad Peller
9ee82d5410 wl1271: bugfix: use bitwise-AND instead of logical-AND
typo - while looking for specific bits we should do a bitwise-AND instead of logical-AND.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:29 -04:00
Eliad Peller
58be4607d2 wl1271: avoid redundant memcpy of rx_status
copy the rx_status directly to skb->cb (control buffer) instead of copying
it to a local struct and then copying it again (for each rx packet)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:28 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
2c7808d934 carl9170: fix hang in AP mode when HT STA does PSM
This is a obvious bug, skb_queue_walk does not
work if the iterator gets removed from the queue.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:26 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
735761108f carl9170: reinit phy after HT settings have changed
The driver has a set of different initvals for 20 MHz
vs dynamic HT2040 operation. Because we can't change
some of the registers "in-flight", the driver needs to
perform a warm reset.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:25 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
78ec789bd3 carl9170: fix state downgrade during reset
Don't mark the device as completely dead just yet.
If all goes to plan and carl9170_reboot succeeds
then we can skip the expensive userspace-driven
reinitialization anyway.

And if it doesn't and carl9170_reboot fails,
then carl9170_usb_cancel_urbs will do the
necessary steps.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:24 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
cf6487d0d6 carl9170: abort tasklet during usb reset
This patch prevents the tasklet code from
interfering while the firmware is down for
an unscheduled maintenance.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:23 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
9adc9e0ff3 carl9170: don't load bogus nf of chain 1
According to Atheros, chain 1 is not connected.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:21 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
e278c5a903 carl9170: fix noise dBm conversion
Ever since carl9170 gained support to read the noisefloor,
the reported noisefloor level was pretty poor.

Initially I assumed that something was wrong in the PHY
setup and it would be impossible to fix without any
guidances. But this was not the case. In fact the nf
readings were correct and the thing that was broken
was the "simple" sign extension code!

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:20 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
9dec6f9c48 carl9170: use rx chainmask from eeprom
The eeprom provides a mask for all present rx chains.
Why not use it instead of the generic initval default?

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:19 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
e0b1cc52e5 ath5k: Add tx queue configuration function
Add the mac80211 callback function to configure the tx queue properties like
cw_min, cw_max and aifs.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:18 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
de8af45520 ath5k: Simplify cw_min/max and AIFS configuration
Get rid of overly complicated cw_min/max and AIFS configuration:

* Validate values in ath5k_hw_set_tx_queueprops(), so we can use them directly
  without further checks or computation in ath5k_hw_reset_tx_queue().

* Simplifiy by using AR5K_TUNE_AIFS|CWMIN|CWMAX variables directly since we
  don't support XR or B channels. That way we can also remove
  AR5K_TXQ_USEDEFAULT and the confusing logic around it.

* Update data types: AIFS is u8, CW's are u16.

* Remove now unneeded variables in ath5k_hw.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:16 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
234132960d ath5k: Keep last descriptor in queue
If we return a TX descriptor to the pool of available descriptors, while a
queues TXDP still points to it we could potentially run into all sorts of
troube.

It has been suggested that there is hardware which can set the descriptors
done bit before it reads ds_link and moves on to the next descriptor. While the
documentation says this is not true for newer chipsets (the descriptor contents
are copied to some internal memory), we don't know about older hardware.

To be safe, we always keep the last descriptor in the queue, and avoid dangling
TXDP pointers. Unfortunately this does not fully resolve the problem - queues
still get stuck!

This is similar to what ath9k does.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:15 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
923e5b3d3d ath5k: Count how many times a queue got stuck
Add a counter to show how many times a queue got stuck in the debugfs queue
file.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:14 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
4edd761f40 ath5k: Add watchdog for stuck TX queues
Since we do not know any better solution to the problem that TX queues can get
stuck, this adds a timer-based watchdog, which will check for stuck queues and
reset the hardware if necessary.

Ported from ath9k commit 164ace3853.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:12 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
1440401e70 ath5k: Move tx frame completion into separate function
Clearer separation between queue handling and what we do with completed frames.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:11 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
651d9375dc ath5k: Fix TX queues stopping
It does not make sense to stop queues for NF calibration. This will not stop
transmissions from the card, if there are queued packets.

If we run out of TX buffers we need to stop all queues, not only one.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:10 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
cfddc11c42 ath5k: Fix queue debug file
Take txq lock in debug file and fix reporting of used buffers.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:09 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
925e0b0613 ath5k: Use four hardware queues
Prepare ath5k for WME by using four hardware queues.

The way we set up our queues matches the mac80211 queue priority 1:1, so we
don't have to do any mapping for queue numbers.

Every queue uses 50 of the total 200 available transmit buffers, so the DMA
memory usage does not increase with this patch, but it might be good to
fine-tune the number of buffers per queue later (depending on the CPU speed and
load, and the speed of the medium access, it might not be big enough).

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:08 -04:00
Bob Copeland
8a63facc37 ath5k: reorder base.c to remove fwd decls
This change reorganizes the main ath5k file in order to re-group
related functions and remove most of the forward declarations
(from 61 down to 3).  This is, unfortunately, a lot of churn, but
there should be no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:06 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
ce2220d1da ath/ath5k/ath9k: Fix crypto capabilities merge issue
Fixing up a merge issue / concurrent development:

Remove unneeded ath_crypt_caps flags, as per "ath9k_hw: remove useless hw
capability flags" (364734fafb), but set the
AESCCM flag for ath9k. common ath code still needs a flag for this because
there is ath5k hardware which can't do AES in hardware.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:05 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
c807666a08 carl9170: update AR9170 phy initvals
This patch is loosely based on an ath9k patch called:
"ath9k_hw: sync initvals for ar9001 and ar9002 with Atheros"

It includes the following changes/fixes:
	- AGC setting improvements
	- timing changes for improved performance

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:04 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
15cea99306 wl1271: make ref_clock configurable by board
The wl1271 device is using a reference clock that may change
between board to board.

Make the ref_clock parameter configurable by board settings
instead of having a hard coded value in the sources.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:00 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
09cecc340b wl1271: take irq info from private board data
Remove the hard coded irq information, and instead take
the irq information from the board's platform data.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:04:59 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
61ee7007a5 wl12xx: add platform data passing support
Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the
SDIO instances of wl12xx.

This way there is no confusion over who owns the 'embedded data',
typechecking is preserved, and no possibility for the wrong driver to
pick up the data.

Originally proposed by Russell King.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:04:57 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
2cc78ff78c wl1271: propagate set_power's return value
Make it possible for the set power method to indicate a
success/failure return value. This is needed to support
more complex power on/off operations such as SDIO
power manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:04:56 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
c1f9a09560 wl12xx: make wl12xx.h common to both spi and sdio
Move wl12xx.h outside of the spi-specific location,
so it can be shared with both spi and sdio solutions.

Update all users of spi/wl12xx.h accordingly

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:04:38 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
09f250ac8f iwlagn: initialize both tx/rx prio boost parameters
For config bt command, initialize both tx_prio_boost and
rx_prio_boost to "0".

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:57 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b345f4da42 iwlagn: minor coex API changes
Adding two new parameters in config bt API. these two parameters
use the 3 reserved bytes, so there is no structure size changes.

Make sure set both parameters to "zero" in order to preserve
previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:49 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
1d270075be iwlagn: correct naming for failure reply tx status
For failure tx status 0x90 and 0x91, give the correct name to reflect
the errors.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:39 -07:00
Jay Sternberg
0b7e5e85b0 iwlwifi: corrections to debug output of ucode statistics
remove duplicate header and clean up format so it is defined once
making changes consolicated ensuring consistancy of output.
no function change to date displayed.

Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:30 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
95b49ed013 iwlagn: adding aggregated frame failure status to debugfs
Addition to standard tx frame failure report, adding aggregated
frame failure report to debugfs

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:17 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
814665fef7 iwlagn: keep track of aggregated tx frames failure counter
When uCode completed the aggregated frames transmission attempt,
it will send tx command response with aggregated frame status.

Keep track of the failure counter which help indicate any transmission
error condition.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:18:02 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
e1b3fa0c22 iwlagn: log aggregation tx command status
For aggregated frames with block ack, different status flag
will be used as part of tx command response.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:17:50 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
54a9aa65f7 iwlagn: keep track of failure tx status
Tx command response sent to host by uCode after completed
the transmission attempt. The status parameter indicates
whether the transmission was successful, or else why if failed.

Here we keep the counters to help understand the different failure
cases.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:17:36 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
91835ba401 iwlagn: keep track fail tx reason counter
If uCode fail to transmit frame, it will send reply tx back
to driver with failure status; keep the counters of each failure
cases for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:17:19 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a437fbb96f iwlagn: add bt_status_read for 5150
Include bt_status_read function pointer for 5150 device

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:17:05 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
7acc7c683a iwlwifi: do not perferm force reset while doing scan
When uCode error condition detected, driver try to perform either
rf reset or firmware reload in order bring device back to
working condition.

If rf reset is required and scan is in process, there is no need
to issue rf reset since scan already reset the rf.

If firmware reload is required and scan is in process, skip the
reload request. There is a possibility firmware reload during
scan cause problem.

[  485.804046] WARNING: at net/mac80211/main.c:310 ieee80211_restart_hw+0x28/0x62()
[  485.804049] Hardware name: Latitude E6400
[  485.804052] ieee80211_restart_hw called with hardware scan in progress
[  485.804054] Modules linked in: iwlagn iwlcore bnep sco rfcomm l2cap crc16 bluetooth [last unloaded: iwlcore]
[  485.804069] Pid: 812, comm: kworker/u:3 Tainted: G        W   2.6.36-rc3-wl+ #74
[  485.804072] Call Trace:
[  485.804079]  [<c103019a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x60/0x75
[  485.804084]  [<c1030213>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x26/0x2a
[  485.804089]  [<c145da67>] ieee80211_restart_hw+0x28/0x62
[  485.804102]  [<f8b35dc6>] iwl_bg_restart+0x113/0x150 [iwlagn]
[  485.804108]  [<c10415d5>] process_one_work+0x181/0x25c
[  485.804119]  [<f8b35cb3>] ? iwl_bg_restart+0x0/0x150 [iwlagn]
[  485.804124]  [<c104190a>] worker_thread+0xf9/0x1f2
[  485.804128]  [<c1041811>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1f2
[  485.804133]  [<c10451b0>] kthread+0x64/0x69
[  485.804137]  [<c104514c>] ? kthread+0x0/0x69
[  485.804141]  [<c1002df6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
[  485.804145] ---[ end trace 3d4ebdc02d524bbb ]---
[  485.804148] WG> 1
[  485.804153] Pid: 812, comm: kworker/u:3 Tainted: G        W   2.6.36-rc3-wl+ #74
[  485.804156] Call Trace:
[  485.804161]  [<c145da9b>] ? ieee80211_restart_hw+0x5c/0x62
[  485.804172]  [<f8b35dcb>] iwl_bg_restart+0x118/0x150 [iwlagn]
[  485.804177]  [<c10415d5>] process_one_work+0x181/0x25c
[  485.804188]  [<f8b35cb3>] ? iwl_bg_restart+0x0/0x150 [iwlagn]
[  485.804192]  [<c104190a>] worker_thread+0xf9/0x1f2
[  485.804197]  [<c1041811>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1f2
[  485.804201]  [<c10451b0>] kthread+0x64/0x69
[  485.804205]  [<c104514c>] ? kthread+0x0/0x69
[  485.804209]  [<c1002df6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-09-17 13:03:35 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
008443def3 ath9k: fix regression which disabled ps on ath9k
The patch titled "ath9k: Add new file init.c" shuffled some code
around but in dong so for some reason also removed the revision
check for disablign power save. Add this revision check again
so we can get power save re-enabled again by default on cards
newer than AR5416 and AR5418.

$ git describe --contains 556242049c
v2.6.34-rc1~233^2~49^2~343

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.34+].

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:20 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
3fac6dfdcd ath9k: fix regression which prevents chip sleep after CAB data
The patch:

commit 293dc5dfdb
Author: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 12:17:48 2009 +0200

    ath9k: remove ath_rx_ps_back_to_sleep helper

    This helper only clears the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_{BEACON,CAB} flags.
    Remove it and clear these flags directly in the approptiate
    places instead.

    Changes-licensed-under: ISC
    Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

introduced a regression which forgot to lift the beacon flag
after we received all broadcast and multicast data. This meant
we never went to sleep consuming about ~650mW on idle. This pretty
much broke power save completely.

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.32+].

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@google.com>
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
48a6a46819 ath9k: fix enabling ANI / tx monitor after bg scan
ath9k's entire logic with SC_OP_SCANNING is incorrect due to the
way mac80211 currently implements the scan complete callback and
we handle it in ath9k. This patch removes the flag completely in
preference for the SC_OP_OFFCHANNEL which is really what we wanted.

The scanning flag was used to ensure we reset ANI to the old values
when we go back to the home channel, but if we are offchannel we
use some defaults. The flag was also used to re-enable the TX monitor.

Without this patch we simply never re-enabled ANI and the TX monitor
after going offchannel. This means that after one background
scan we are prone to noise issues and if we had a TX hang we would
not recover. To get this to work properly we must enable ANI after
we have configured the beacon timers, otherwise hardware acts really
oddly.

This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+], there
*may* be a to fix this on older kernels but requires a bit of
work since this patch relies on the new mac80211 flag
IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL which was introduced as of 2.6.36.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:12 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
52b8ac9249 ath9k: fix regression on beacon loss after bgscan
When we return to the home channel we were never reseting our beacon
timers, this was casued by the fact that the scanning flag was still
on even after we returned to our home channel. There are also other
reasons why we would get a reset and if we are not off channel
we always need to resynch our beacon timers, because a reset will
clear them.

This bug is a regression introduced on 2.6.36. The order of the
changes are as follows:

5ee08656 - Sat Jul 31 - ath9k: prevent calibration during off-channel activity
a0daa0e7 - Tue Jul 27 - Revert "mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing"
543708be - Fri Jun 18 - mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains 5ee0865615
v2.6.36-rc1~43^2~34^2~22

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains a0daa0e759
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~64^2~13

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains 543708be32
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~107^2~187

So 5ee08656 would have worked if a0daa0e7 was not committed but
it was so this means 5ee08656 was broken since it assumed that
when we were in the channel change routine the scan flag would
be lifted. As it turns out the scan flag will be set when we
are already on the home channel.

For more details refer to:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5715

These issues will need to be considered for our solution on
reshifting the scan complete callback location on mac80211 on
current development kernel work.

This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:11 -04:00