wl1271: Rewrite hardware keep-alive handling
authorJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:50:01 +0000 (09:50 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:50:26 +0000 (16:50 -0400)
The driver had a join command without keep-alive restart procedures in the
channel changing code. After associated scans, the mac80211 does re-set the
current channel, causing the join to occur. This would stop the hardware
keep alive.

To make the joins safer in this respect, this patch adds a join function that
does the hardware-keep-alive magic along the join. This is now invoked in the
above mentioned scenario, and also other scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c

index c160e5ad1e573310183e8d17f0e1b922ee710c42..a794d5ed8c603d7019520401c9d559b06cdf09ae 100644 (file)
@@ -1117,14 +1117,13 @@ static void wl1271_configure_filters(struct wl1271 *wl, unsigned int filters)
        }
 }
 
-static int wl1271_join_channel(struct wl1271 *wl, int channel)
+static int wl1271_dummy_join(struct wl1271 *wl)
 {
        int ret = 0;
        /* we need to use a dummy BSSID for now */
        static const u8 dummy_bssid[ETH_ALEN] = { 0x0b, 0xad, 0xde,
                                                  0xad, 0xbe, 0xef };
 
-       wl->channel = channel;
        memcpy(wl->bssid, dummy_bssid, ETH_ALEN);
 
        /* pass through frames from all BSS */
@@ -1140,7 +1139,47 @@ out:
        return ret;
 }
 
-static int wl1271_unjoin_channel(struct wl1271 *wl)
+static int wl1271_join(struct wl1271 *wl)
+{
+       int ret;
+
+       ret = wl1271_cmd_join(wl, wl->set_bss_type);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+       set_bit(WL1271_FLAG_JOINED, &wl->flags);
+
+       if (!test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_STA_ASSOCIATED, &wl->flags))
+               goto out;
+
+       /*
+        * The join command disable the keep-alive mode, shut down its process,
+        * and also clear the template config, so we need to reset it all after
+        * the join. The acx_aid starts the keep-alive process, and the order
+        * of the commands below is relevant.
+        */
+       ret = wl1271_acx_keep_alive_mode(wl, true);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+       ret = wl1271_acx_aid(wl, wl->aid);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+       ret = wl1271_cmd_build_klv_null_data(wl);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+       ret = wl1271_acx_keep_alive_config(wl, CMD_TEMPL_KLV_IDX_NULL_DATA,
+                                          ACX_KEEP_ALIVE_TPL_VALID);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+out:
+       return ret;
+}
+
+static int wl1271_unjoin(struct wl1271 *wl)
 {
        int ret;
 
@@ -1230,7 +1269,7 @@ static int wl1271_op_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
                                       "failed %d", ret);
 
                if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_JOINED, &wl->flags)) {
-                       ret = wl1271_cmd_join(wl, wl->set_bss_type);
+                       ret = wl1271_join(wl);
                        if (ret < 0)
                                wl1271_warning("cmd join to update channel "
                                               "failed %d", ret);
@@ -1240,9 +1279,9 @@ static int wl1271_op_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
        if (changed & IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE) {
                if (conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE &&
                    test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_JOINED, &wl->flags))
-                       wl1271_unjoin_channel(wl);
+                       wl1271_unjoin(wl);
                else if (!(conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE))
-                       wl1271_join_channel(wl, channel);
+                       wl1271_dummy_join(wl);
 
                if (conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE) {
                        wl->rate_set = wl1271_min_rate_get(wl);
@@ -1612,7 +1651,6 @@ static void wl1271_op_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        enum wl1271_cmd_ps_mode mode;
        struct wl1271 *wl = hw->priv;
        bool do_join = false;
-       bool do_keepalive = false;
        int ret;
 
        wl1271_debug(DEBUG_MAC80211, "mac80211 bss info changed");
@@ -1755,19 +1793,6 @@ static void wl1271_op_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                        ret = wl1271_cmd_build_probe_req(wl, NULL, 0,
                                                         NULL, 0, wl->band);
 
-                       /* Enable the keep-alive feature */
-                       ret = wl1271_acx_keep_alive_mode(wl, true);
-                       if (ret < 0)
-                               goto out_sleep;
-
-                       /*
-                        * This is awkward. The keep-alive configs must be done
-                        * *after* the join command, because otherwise it will
-                        * not work, but it must only be done *once* because
-                        * otherwise the firmware will start complaining.
-                        */
-                       do_keepalive = true;
-
                        /* enable the connection monitoring feature */
                        ret = wl1271_acx_conn_monit_params(wl, true);
                        if (ret < 0)
@@ -1835,35 +1860,11 @@ static void wl1271_op_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        }
 
        if (do_join) {
-               ret = wl1271_cmd_join(wl, wl->set_bss_type);
+               ret = wl1271_join(wl);
                if (ret < 0) {
                        wl1271_warning("cmd join failed %d", ret);
                        goto out_sleep;
                }
-               set_bit(WL1271_FLAG_JOINED, &wl->flags);
-       }
-
-       /*
-        * The JOIN operation shuts down the firmware keep-alive as a side
-        * effect, and the ACX_AID will start the keep-alive as a side effect.
-        * Hence, for non-IBSS, the ACX_AID must always happen *after* the
-        * JOIN operation, and the template config after the ACX_AID.
-        */
-       if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_STA_ASSOCIATED, &wl->flags)) {
-               ret = wl1271_acx_aid(wl, wl->aid);
-               if (ret < 0)
-                       goto out_sleep;
-       }
-
-       if (do_keepalive) {
-               ret = wl1271_cmd_build_klv_null_data(wl);
-               if (ret < 0)
-                       goto out_sleep;
-               ret = wl1271_acx_keep_alive_config(
-                       wl, CMD_TEMPL_KLV_IDX_NULL_DATA,
-                       ACX_KEEP_ALIVE_TPL_VALID);
-               if (ret < 0)
-                       goto out_sleep;
        }
 
 out_sleep: