b43: fill ctl1 word on all newer PHYs, fix PHY errors
authorRafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:59:25 +0000 (16:59 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:19:12 +0000 (13:19 -0500)
This fixes PHY transmission errors reported on some LP-PHY and HT-PHY
cards. For LP-PHY they were quite rare and not really noticable. On
HT-PHY they were critical, OFDM rates were not available at all.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c

index 58ea0e5fabfd495b7c1ffaa6d56ee84d84bd0d17..b62d4a15c534895b67aea981d3c58c5c12b5a191 100644 (file)
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ void b43_generate_plcp_hdr(struct b43_plcp_hdr4 *plcp,
        }
 }
 
+/* TODO: verify if needed for SSLPN or LCN  */
 static u16 b43_generate_tx_phy_ctl1(struct b43_wldev *dev, u8 bitrate)
 {
        const struct b43_phy *phy = &dev->phy;
@@ -256,6 +257,9 @@ int b43_generate_txhdr(struct b43_wldev *dev,
        unsigned int plcp_fragment_len;
        u32 mac_ctl = 0;
        u16 phy_ctl = 0;
+       bool fill_phy_ctl1 = (phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_LP ||
+                             phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_N ||
+                             phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_HT);
        u8 extra_ft = 0;
        struct ieee80211_rate *txrate;
        struct ieee80211_tx_rate *rates;
@@ -531,7 +535,7 @@ int b43_generate_txhdr(struct b43_wldev *dev,
                        extra_ft |= B43_TXH_EFT_RTSFB_CCK;
 
                if (rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS &&
-                   phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_N) {
+                   fill_phy_ctl1) {
                        txhdr->phy_ctl1_rts = cpu_to_le16(
                                b43_generate_tx_phy_ctl1(dev, rts_rate));
                        txhdr->phy_ctl1_rts_fb = cpu_to_le16(
@@ -552,7 +556,7 @@ int b43_generate_txhdr(struct b43_wldev *dev,
                break;
        }
 
-       if (phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_N) {
+       if (fill_phy_ctl1) {
                txhdr->phy_ctl1 =
                        cpu_to_le16(b43_generate_tx_phy_ctl1(dev, rate));
                txhdr->phy_ctl1_fb =