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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
80b517f362 omap: zoom: add mmc3/wl1271 device support
Add MMC3 support on ZOOM, which has the wl1271 device hardwired to.

The wl1271 is a 4-wire, 1.8V, embedded SDIO WLAN device with an
external IRQ line, and power-controlled by a GPIO-based fixed regulator.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:02 -04:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
b642fde7f1 omap: zoom: add fixed regulator device for wlan
Add a fixed regulator vmmc device to enable power control
of the wl1271 wlan device.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:01 -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
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
f01a067d9e mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast
Some buggy APs do not respond to unicast probe requests
or send unicast probe requests very delayed so in the
worst case we should try to send broadcast probe requests,
otherwise we can get disconnected from these APs.

Even if drivers do not have filters to disregard probe
responses from foreign APs mac80211 will only process
probe responses from our associated AP for re-arming
connection monitoring.

We need to do this since the beacon monitor does not
push back the connection monitor by design so even if we
are getting beacons from these type of APs our connection
monitor currently relies heavily on the way the probe
requests are received on the AP. An example of an AP
affected by this is the Nexus One, but this has also been
observed with random APs.

We can probably optimize this later by using null funcs
instead of probe requests.

For more details refer to:

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

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.35+].

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 15:46:18 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
3bc3c0d748 mac80211: disable beacon monitor while going offchannel
The beacon monitor should be disabled when going off channel
to prevent spurious warnings and triggering connection
deterioration work such as sending probe requests. Re-enable
the beacon monitor once we come back to the home channel.

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 15:46:17 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
d3a910a8e4 mac80211: make the beacon monitor available externally
This will be used by other components next. The beacon
monitor was added as of 2.6.34 so these fixes are applicable
only to 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 15:46:16 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
4730d5977f mac80211: reset connection idle when going offchannel
When we go offchannel mac80211 currently leaves alive the
connection idle monitor. This should be instead postponed
until we come back to our home channel, otherwise by the
time we get back to the home channel we could be triggering
unecesary probe requests. For APs that do not respond to
unicast probe requests (Nexus One is a simple example) this
means we essentially get disconnected after the probes
fails.

This patch has stable fixes for kernels [2.6.35+]

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 15:46:15 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
0c699c3a75 mac80211: reset probe send counter upon connection timer reset
Upon beacon loss we send probe requests after 30 seconds of idle
time and we wait for each probe response 1/2 second. We send a
total of 3 probe requests before giving up on the AP. In the case
that we reset the connection idle monitor we should reset the probe
requests count to 0. Right now this won't help in any way but
the next patch will.

This patch has fixes for stable kernel [2.6.35+].

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 15:46:14 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
be099e82e9 mac80211: add helper for reseting the connection monitor
This will be used in another place later. The connection
monitor was added as of 2.6.35 so these fixes will be
applicable to >= 2.6.35.

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 15:46:13 -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
Luis R. Rodriguez
8ab2cd09fe ath9k: fix power save race conditions
ath9k has a race on putting the chip into network sleep and
having registers read from hardware. The race occurs because
although ath9k_ps_restore() locks its own callers it makes use
of some variables which get altered in the driver at different
code paths. The variables are the ps_enabled and ps_flags.

This is easily reprodicible in large network environments when
roaming with the wpa_supplicant simple bgscan. You'd get some
0xdeadbeef read out on certain registers such as:

ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x806c: 0xdeadbeef & 0x01f00000 != 0x00000000
ath: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef

ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
ath: Chip reset failed

The fix is to protect the ath9k_config(hw, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS)
calls with a spin_lock_irqsave() which will disable contendors for
these variables from interrupt context, timers, re-entry from mac80211
on the same callback, and most importantly from ath9k_ps_restore()
which is the only call which will put the device into network sleep.

There are quite a few threads and bug reports on these a few of them are:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/407040
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5709
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5943

Stable fixes apply to [2.6.32+]

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 15:46:09 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
0f529e9849 ath9k_htc: Fix register read through bulk pipe
To optimize register read/write operations, the HTC firmwares were patched
to change EP3 and EP4 pipe types from Interrupt to Bulk. So register writes
are submitted as bulk urbs, but register reads are not. Also changing the
register read endpoint pipe as bulk type when URBs are filled improves the
register reads considerably which results in reduced scan time and CPU
utilization.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:08 -04:00