brcmfmac: enable sk_buff queueing when credits deplete
Firmware provides the driver with credits used to transmit packets
to the firmware. When credits run out the packets should be queued
and dequeued when receiving creditback signals from the firmware.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: no flow-control tlv signals when fcmode is NONE
The fcmode provided by module parameter defaults to NONE, which
means no flow-control is required. In this case flow-control
signals should not be enabled.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: only allocate firmware-signalling resources if required
Bail out of brcmf_fws_init() when no firmware-signalling is asked
for. Need to take this into account in brcmf_fws_deinit() as well.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The functions are moved in preparation of later patches.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: correct specified length from FIFOCREDITBACK signal
The length is not according specification so better fix it.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: initialize struct brcmf_fws_info fields before iovar
If iovar to the firmware fails the firmware-signalling module
does a cleanup for which it needs pointer to struct brcmf_pub, which
it gets from struct brcmf_fws_info::drvr. Assign this field before
doing the tlv iovar.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add dedicated log level for low-level sdio debugging
The low-level sdio code has a large number of trace and info messages
that are mostly useful looking into bus specific issues. For tracing
higher-level driver functions it is better to have a dedicated level
for low-level sdio debugging.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Change-Id: Ia424ff18d9033b97aeffc248358e50c51805e815
Reviewed-on: http://lb-bun-88.bun.broadcom.com:8080/74 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Piotr Haber [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:40:43 +0000 (12:40 +0200)]
brcmfmac: avoid error output on header only packet
During SDIO layer flow control signalling firmware can issue
invalid packets. Prevent printing of parsing errors in such case.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Parsing the tlv upon receiving frames can fail. Instead of printing
an error message, just count the parse failure. On some devices we
receive a lot of invalid tlv signals.
this commit will be squashed.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Change-Id: I08e0f62c55e5028f9aa70c396d291679abd273c9
Reviewed-on: http://lb-bun-88.bun.broadcom.com:8080/72 Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: fix handling sk_buff cleanup upon bus tx failure
When firmware-signalling is active the brcmf_txcomplete() does
a free of the sk_buff when transfer to firmware fails in the
bus-specific driver code. However, it should also cleanup the
packet from the hanger. This patch fixes that.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enabling the tx status signalling, which requires packet tagging
before sending to the firmware and handling the tx status signal.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add flow-control mode to firmware signalling
Upcoming patches will add firmware signalled flow control. Prepare
by adding the mode, which defaults to disable it. The mode can be
queried by brcmf_fws_fc_active() and set by a module parameter.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add optional bus callback definition for tx queue cleanup
Add a callback to obtain packet queue from the bus-specific code
used to cleanup packet buffers from firmware-signalling code.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hanger for firmware-signalling is used to retain information for
outstanding transmit packets that await tx status.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: perform filtered firmware-signalling cleanup upon DEL_IF
When an interface is deleted make sure to cleanup all packet
buffers related to that interface.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add definitions for handling sk_buff control buffer data
The sk_buff structure contains a control buffer that can be used
by different layers in the networking stack for holding packet
associated information. In brcmfmac it is used to hold firmware
signalling related information.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: allow stopping netif queue for different reasons
Currently, the netif queue is only stopped when the bus interface is
giving a push back. This will change soon so prepare the driver by
adding a stop reason and stop/resume the queue accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add firmware-signalling cleanup function
Add a cleanup function releasing any queued packet buffers in
the mac descriptor entries.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: add handler for credit map firmware events
The firmware signalling functionality needs the credit map firmware
events. This patch adds registration of a handler for this event.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: handle firmware signal for updating mac descriptor info
Firmware can signal the driver to allocate descriptor info for a given
mac address, which will be used for flow control and host queueing.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: hookup firmware signalling to firmware interface events
Firmware signalling needs to handle resources upon interface
events. This patch add calls in the interface event handling
routine.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: determine the wiphy->bands property correctly.
Use information from the device to determine the bands property
of the wiphy object. After this change the support of 80211n is
correctly presented in the bands property.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: use skb_cow() in brcmf_sdbrcm_txpkt() to assure alignment
In brcmf_sdbrcm_txpkt() a new packet is allocated and used to transmit
to firmware freeing up the original packet. However, that packet is
still referenced in firmware-signalling so this would result in a
double free. Using skb_cow() avoids this as the packet reference is
unchanged.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: minor optimization of brcmf_sdbrcm_txpkt() function
When taking care of packet alignment to 64-byte boundary padding may
be added between SDPCM header and CDC data. It clear both SDPCM header
space and padding space. Changed it to only clear padding space. In
filling the SDPCM header it uses unaligned access to set SDPCM software
header, but preceding code assures it is properly aligned.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Change-Id: Iad22f277f3496440ba4d2db771205714774570ac
Reviewed-on: http://lb-bun-88.bun.broadcom.com:8080/76 Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: correct success flag passed by brcmf_sdbrcm_txpkt()
The function brcmf_sdbrcm_txpkt() calls brcmf_txcomplete() with
a parameter success. For this parameter it passes ret != 0, but
that condition is true upon failure.
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:06:56 +0000 (22:06 -0500)]
rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Enable recognition of RTL8188EE
These patches modify the common probe routine to recognize the RTL8188EE
chip and implement asynchronous firmware reading in the callback routine
to initialize the sw variables.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: jcheung@suse.com Cc: machen@suse.com Cc: mmarek@suse.cz Cc: zhiyuan_yang@realsil.com.cn Cc: page_he@realsil.com.cn Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch combines the remaining changes in the rtlwifi family to handle
the addition of rtl8188ee. A number of these changes eliminate some CamelCase
variable names, and other shorten common variable names so that long lines
in the new driver could be shortened.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: jcheung@suse.com Cc: machen@suse.com Cc: mmarek@suse.cz Cc: zhiyuan_yang@realsil.com.cn Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:06:41 +0000 (22:06 -0500)]
rtlwifi: Rework rtl_lps_leave() and rtl_lps_enter() to use work queue
In commit a5ffbe0, some of the calls to rtl_lps_leave() were switched
to be called from a work queue to avoid a scheduling while atomic bug.
This patch converts the remaining calls to use the work queue. In
addition, the call to rtl_lps_enter() is also switched to the work
queue. None of these newly converted calls had triggered the bug (yet),
but this change make all of them fit a single pattern.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: jcheung@suse.com Cc: machen@suse.com Cc: mmarek@suse.cz Cc: zhiyuan_yang@realsil.com.cn Cc: page_he@realsil.com.cn Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Gabor Juhos [Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:53:10 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
rt2x00: rt2800lib: probe RT chipset earlier
The 'rt2800_validate_eeprom' function uses the type of
the RT chipset for verifying the number of RX streams
on RT28x0 devices. However the type of the RT chipset
is not yet detected when the 'rt2800_validate_eeprom'
function is called.
Move the RT chipset detection code into a separate helper
function, and call it before rt2800_validate_eeprom.
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:10:32 +0000 (19:10 -0700)]
mwifiex: use separate AMPDU tx/rx window sizes in 11ac networks
Newer 11ac enabled chipsets have more TX and RX buffers in FW
and hardware; so they may support larger TX and RX window sizes
for BA. Reset BA settings during association, adhoc join/start
or start_ap() if we are joining/creating 11ac network.
Avinash Patil [Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:10:31 +0000 (19:10 -0700)]
mwifiex: change default tx/rx win_size for BA setup
This patch fixes an issue where RX throughput values observed
were substantially lower than TX counterparts for PCIe8897 STA.
PCIe8897 supports larger rx_win_size. After changing these values
we see big improvement for TX and RX throughput values.
Different tx_win_size and rx_win_size are used for AP mode.
All BA setup related initialization has been moved to separate
function.
Marco Fonseca reported a issue with his carl9170 device:
"I'm seeing a problem with the carl driver. If I change channels
repeatedly on the 2.4ghz band, monitoring (e.g. tcpdump) will
eventually halt. I've seen this on various versions of the carl
driver/firmware (both from 1.9.4 to 1.9.7)"
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136381302428113>
The culprit was identified as "fast channel change feature" which
according to Adrian Chadd is: "... notoriously unreliable and
really only fully debugged on some very later chips."
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136416984531380>
Therefore, this patch removes the fast channel change feature.
The phy will now always have to go through a cold reset when
changing channels, but it should no longer become deaf.
Cc: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jonas Gorski [Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:39:54 +0000 (16:39 +0100)]
mwl8k: always apply configuration even when device is idle
Fix settings not being applied when the device is idle and the firmware
gets reloaded (because of changing from STA to AP mode). This caused
the device using the wrong channel (and likely band), e.g. a 5 GHz only
card still defaulted to channel 6 in the 2.4 GHz band when left
unconfigured.
This issue was always present, but only made visible with "mwl8k: Do not
call mwl8k_cmd_set_rf_channel unconditionally" (0f4316b9), since before
that the channel was (re-)configured at the next _config call even when
it did not change from the mac80211 perspective.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is possible to configure the ucode to automatically send the probe
responses to the clients after they send a probe request. At least for
WPS the userspace needs to answer the probe requests and we do not know
a way to say to the ucode to just handle the normal probe requests, so
for now no probe requests should be handled by the ucode.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hauke Mehrtens [Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:46:00 +0000 (01:46 +0100)]
brcmsmac: add support for probe response template
The ucode is able to answer probe response by itself. This writes such
a template into the specific memory. Currently the probe requests are
also send to mac80211 so there are more answers send to a requesting
client. We have to make the ucode stop sending probe requests to the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hauke Mehrtens [Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:45:51 +0000 (01:45 +0100)]
brcmsmac: remove brcms_bss_cfg->BSS
This was a read only member. The checks using BSS are replaced by
better fitting checks of the new type member.
The change in brcms_c_tbtt() was based on code from b43, in
brcms_c_ps_allowed() the same happens with BSS being true or false,
beaconing and probe responses are just needed in ap mode.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:49:07 +0000 (21:49 -0700)]
mwifiex: use fw_status register to wake up PCIe card
FW can be woken up even by accessing device registers; we need
not explicitily enable interrupts for doing this. Future PCIe
devices will not be woken up by writing to host registers.
This patch enables driver to wake up device by reading FW status
register.
Also devices with sleep cookie enabled need some more time before
proceeding with processing. Handle this by adding a delay loop.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:49:06 +0000 (21:49 -0700)]
mwifiex: avoid waking up device in awake state
We have received interrupt from device means FW is not sleeping.
In this case make sure wakeup handler for PCIe is not invoked by
setting adapter->pm_wakeup_fw_try to false.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Zefir Kurtisi [Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:58:23 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
ath9k: trivial: change spectral relayfs buffering
The spectral data provided via relay-fs introduces a buffering
latency given by the subbuf_size. To meet the requirements for
delay-sensitive applications (like real-time spectral plotter),
reduce subbuf_size and increase n_subbufs.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:37:08 +0000 (08:37 +0100)]
b43: N-PHY: use more bits for offset in RSSI calibration
When calculating "offset" for final RSSI calibration we're using numbers
bigger than s8 can hold. We have for example:
offset[j] = 232 - poll_results[j];
formula. If poll_results[j] is small enough (it usually is) we treat
number's bit as a sign bit. For example 232 - 1 becomes:
0xE8 - 0x1 = 0xE7, which is not 231 but -25.
il4965_rs_initialize_lq checks to see if sta is null, however, before that
check il4965_rs_use_green dereferences sta when intializing use_green.
Avoid a potential null pointer dereference error by only calling
il4965_rs_use_green after we are sure sta is not null.
Smatch analysis:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-rs.c:2160 il4965_rs_initialize_lq() warn:
variable dereferenced before check 'sta' (see line 2155)
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: avoid queueing hw check work when suspended
The following issue was reported.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:599 ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: iMac12,1
queueing ieee80211 work while going to suspend
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: PF O 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1
Call Trace: Mar 16 09:39:17 Parags-iMac kernel: [ 3993.642992] <IRQ>
[<ffffffff8105e61f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffffa0581420>] ? ath_start_rx_poll+0x70/0x70 [ath9k]
<ffffffff8105e716>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffffa045b542>] ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40
Fix this by avoiding to queue the work if our device has
already been marked as suspended or stopped.
Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> Tested-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Iestyn C. Elfick [Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:02:31 +0000 (14:02 -0500)]
b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors
Intermittently, b43 will report "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring".
When this happens, the driver must be reset before communication can resume.
The cause of the problem is believed to be an error in the closed-source
firmware; however, all versions of the firmware are affected.
This change uses the observation that the expected status is always 2 less
than the observed value, and supplies a fake status report to skip one
header/data pair.
Not all devices suffer from this problem, but it can occur several times
per second under heavy load. As each occurence kills the unmodified driver,
this patch makes if possible for the affected devices to function. The patch
logs only the first instance of the reset operation to prevent spamming
the logs.
Tested-by: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:52:48 +0000 (07:52 +0100)]
b43: N-PHY: increase initial value of "mind" in RSSI calibration
We're using "mind" variable to find the VCM that got the best polling
results. For each VCM we calculte "currd" which is compared to the
"mind". For PHY rev3+ "currd" gets values around 14k-40k. Looking for a
value smaller than 40 makes no sense, so increase the initial value.
Hauke Mehrtens [Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:28:40 +0000 (20:28 +0100)]
b43: remove warning for LP-PHY with sprom < 8
The BCM5354 SoC has a build in ieee80211 core rev 13 with a LP-PHY on
it. This devices has a sprom version 3 stored in the nvram. This patch
removes the warning and uses the opo values from the sprom as mentioned
in the specs.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, default VHT configuration from the firmware is used
for the VHT operations. Adding vhtcfg command to configure the
firmware based on input received from cfg.
Enable VHT for AP mode only when cfg80211_ap_settings has a
VHT IE i.e., when ieee80211ac is set to 1 in the hostapd.conf.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:56:23 +0000 (17:56 -0700)]
mwifiex: reset skb->data after processing PCIe sleep confirm cmd respose
This patch is a bug fix for an issue wherein power save was not
working for PCIe. This happens because for processing power save
sleep confirm command we pull skb so that skb->data points ahead
of interface header. We use same skb to get other cmda responses
as well. So if we don't push skb after processing cmd response,
it results into reduction in skb->len and finally skb->len reaches
zero. This causes failure in processing sleep command response.
Fix this by pushing skb by INTF_HEADER_LEN at the end of command
response processing.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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