GitHub/moto-9609/android_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git
15 years agoiwlwifi: improve scan support
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:36:56 +0000 (14:36 -0700)]
iwlwifi: improve scan support

This modifies iwlwifi to
 * no longer build its own probe request, but use mac80211's
 * therefore, support arbitrary scan IEs (up to the max len)
 * support multiple scan SSIDs
 * support passive scanning

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: rename PROBE_OPTION_MAX_API1 to PROBE_OPTION_MAX_3945
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:36:55 +0000 (14:36 -0700)]
iwlwifi: rename PROBE_OPTION_MAX_API1 to PROBE_OPTION_MAX_3945

This limit applies to current (APIv1 and APIv2) 3945 firmware only, not
supported firmware of any of the other cards.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoar9170: rework rxstream code
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:28:12 +0000 (01:28 +0200)]
ar9170: rework rxstream code

With this patch ar9170 is capable of receiving aggregated 802.11n frames
and sniffing on most networks without having a "debug message overhead".

(Includes phy initialization requested by
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: validate TIM IE length (redux)
Johannes Berg [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:33:24 +0000 (17:33 +0200)]
mac80211: validate TIM IE length (redux)

The TIM IE must not be shorter than 4 bytes, so verify that
when parsing it and use the proper type. To ease that adjust
struct ieee80211_tim_ie to have a virtual bitmap of size
at least 1.

Also check that the TIM IE is actually present before trying
to parse it!

Because other people may need the function, make it a static
inline in ieee80211.h.

(The original "mac80211: validate TIM IE length" was a minimal fix for
2.6.30.  This purports to be the full, correct fix. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:49:39 +0000 (18:49 +0200)]
cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL

The fact that these are exported is a technical detail
of the conversion period -- we don't want anybody to
start relying on these. Ultimately we want things to
use cfg80211 only, and once everything that is in wext
is converted to cfg80211 drivers will not need to touch
wext _at all_.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: clear WEXT SSID when clearing IBSS
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:43:46 +0000 (18:43 +0200)]
cfg80211: clear WEXT SSID when clearing IBSS

When we leave an IBSS, we should clear the SSID and not just the
BSSID, but since WEXT allows configuring while the interface is
down we must not clear it when leaving due to taking the iface
down, so some complications are needed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agonl80211: Add set/get for frag/rts threshold and retry limits
Jouni Malinen [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:39:05 +0000 (18:39 +0200)]
nl80211: Add set/get for frag/rts threshold and retry limits

Add new nl80211 attributes that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY
and NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY to manage fragmentation/RTS threshold and
retry limits.

Since these values are stored in struct wiphy, remove the local copy
from mac80211 where feasible (frag & rts threshold). The retry limits
are currently needed in struct ieee80211_conf, but these could be
eventually removed since the driver should have access to the values
in struct wiphy.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoar9170: support HT receive and channel config
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:27:04 +0000 (18:27 +0200)]
ar9170: support HT receive and channel config

This patch adds support for configuring HT40 channels
and receiving HT40 to ar9170. Receiving aggregation
doesn't seem to work right now, so it's not enabled.
Same goes for TX aggregation, but that probably needs
even more work.

With this, I can receive roughly 33 Mbits/sec.

The HT capabilities are a little odd, I tried following
otus here -- in particular having SGI_40 but not SGI_20
is a little weird but afaict that's what otus does.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agorndis_wlan: remove nickname support
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:01 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
rndis_wlan: remove nickname support

Supporting wireless extension nickname is pointless
and no other modern driver supports this, so remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: clean up includes
Johannes Berg [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:31:42 +0000 (14:31 +0200)]
cfg80211: clean up includes

Trying to separate header files into net/wireless.h and
net/cfg80211.h has been a source of confusion. Remove
net/wireless.h (because there also is the linux/wireless.h)
and subsume everything into net/cfg80211.h -- except the
definitions for regulatory structures which get moved to
a new header net/regulatory.h.

The "new" net/cfg80211.h is now divided into sections.

There are no real changes in this patch but code shuffling
and some very minor documentation fixes.

I have also, to make things reflect reality, put in a
copyright line for Luis to net/regulatory.h since that
is probably exclusively written by him but was formerly
in a file that only had my copyright line.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: convert to cfg80211 IBSS API
Johannes Berg [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:25:43 +0000 (21:25 +0200)]
mac80211: convert to cfg80211 IBSS API

This converts mac80211 to the new cfg80211 IBSS API, the
wext handling functions are called where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
Johannes Berg [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:24:32 +0000 (21:24 +0200)]
cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API

This adds IBSS API along with (preliminary) wext handlers.
The wext handlers can only do IBSS so you need to call them
from your own wext handlers if the mode is IBSS.

The nl80211 API requires
 * an SSID
 * a channel (frequency) for the case that a new IBSS
   has to be created

It optionally supports
 * a flag to fix the channel
 * a fixed BSSID

The cfg80211 code also takes care to leave the IBSS before
the netdev is set down. If wireless extensions are used, it
also caches values when the interface is down and instructs
the driver to join when the interface is set up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211/mac80211: move wext SIWMLME into cfg80211
Johannes Berg [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:57:45 +0000 (19:57 +0200)]
cfg80211/mac80211: move wext SIWMLME into cfg80211

Since we have ->deauth and ->disassoc we can support the
wext SIWMLME call directly without driver wext handlers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agonl80211: send wiphy along with netdev
Johannes Berg [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:23:20 +0000 (16:23 +0200)]
nl80211: send wiphy along with netdev

When listing all wireless netdevs in the system this
is useful to print which wiphy they belong to. Just
add the attribute, any program that doesn't care will
just ignore it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: set CLEAR_PS for pspolled frames
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:39:15 +0000 (19:39 +0200)]
mac80211: set CLEAR_PS for pspolled frames

This patch sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT for outgoing
frames for a half-wake station.

this is necessary if one wants to get ps-poll working properly with a p54 ap.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54: fix ps-poll delivery in ap mode
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:30:13 +0000 (18:30 +0200)]
p54: fix ps-poll delivery in ap mode

PS-Polled frames must be sent with OUT_NOCANCEL flag set,
or the firmware will reject all of them, at the station is still blacklisted.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agortl8187: Implement TX/RX blink for LED
Larry Finger [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:56:38 +0000 (19:56 -0500)]
rtl8187: Implement TX/RX blink for LED

The following patch implements some control over the LED on RTL8187B and
RTL8187L devices. Triggers are registered for TX and RX. Whenever the
trigger event occurs, the LED is turned off for 1/20 second, then turned
back on.

Note: For those RTL8187X devices that are built into the computer and have
a LED that is expected to be controlled with a radio switch, this patch will
not operate that LED. That will take a separate patch to be prepared later.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: Allow scan to be requested in AP mode
Jouni Malinen [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:44:53 +0000 (18:44 +0300)]
mac80211: Allow scan to be requested in AP mode

We can allow scan requests in AP mode as long as the interface has not
yet been configured to send out Beacon frames (or if beaconing has
been disabled prior to the scan request). This makes it easier to scan
for neighboring BSSes during AP initialization and makes it possible
to run a scan without setting the interface down, if needed. Without
this change, the only available option would be to set the interface
down, move into station mode, and set the interface up, prior to
requesting the scan.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: document powersaving/beacon filter future
Johannes Berg [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:04:25 +0000 (17:04 +0200)]
mac80211: document powersaving/beacon filter future

Document what mac80211 will do in the future to help save power.
We're not quite there yet, but a plan helps. Also, while at it,
fix the docs wrt. multicast traffic.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: enable PS by default
Johannes Berg [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:27:42 +0000 (13:27 +0200)]
mac80211: enable PS by default

Enable PS by default (depending on Kconfig) -- rely on drivers
to control the level using pm_qos. Due to the previous patch
we turn off PS when necessary due to latency requirements.

This has a Kconfig symbol so people can, if they really want,
configure the default in their kernels. We may want to keep it
at "default y" only in wireless-testing for a while.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: implement beacon filtering in software
Johannes Berg [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:17:26 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
mac80211: implement beacon filtering in software

Regardless of whether the hardware implements beacon filtering,
there's no need to process all beacons in software all the time
throughout the stack (mac80211 does a lot, then cfg80211, then
in the future possibly userspace).

This patch implements the "best possible" beacon filtering in
mac80211. "Best possible" means that it can look for changes in
all requested information elements, and distinguish vendor IEs
by their OUI.

In the future, we will add nl80211 API for userspace to request
information elements and vendor IE OUIs to watch -- drivers can
then implement the best they can do while software implements
it fully.

It is unclear whether or not this actually saves CPU time, but
the data is all in the cache already so it should be fairly
cheap. The additional _testing_, however, has great benefit;
Without this, and on hardware that doesn't implement beacon
filtering, wrong assumptions about, for example, scan result
updates could quickly creep into code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latency
Johannes Berg [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:17:25 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
mac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latency

When an application asks for a latency lower than the beacon interval
there's nothing we can do -- we need to stay awake and not have the
AP buffer frames for us. Add code to automatically calculate this
constraint in mac80211 so drivers need not concern themselves with it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: improve powersave implementation
Johannes Berg [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:17:24 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
mac80211: improve powersave implementation

When you have multiple virtual interfaces the current
implementation requires setting them up properly from
userspace, which is undesirable when we want to default
to power save mode. Keep track of powersave requested
from userspace per managed mode interface, and only
enable powersave globally when exactly one managed mode
interface is active and has powersave turned on.

Second, only start the dynPS timer when PS is turned
on, and properly turn it off when PS is turned off.

Third, fix the scan_sdata abuse in the dynps code.

Finally, also reorder the code and refactor the code
that enables PS or the dynps timer instead of having
it copied in two places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoAdd support for CF8381 WiFi card.
Marek Vasut [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:33:43 +0000 (21:33 +0100)]
Add support for CF8381 WiFi card.

A detection function was added for identifying CF8381.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54: deactivate broken powersave function (part 2)
Christian Lamparter [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:14:22 +0000 (15:14 +0200)]
p54: deactivate broken powersave function (part 2)

This patch deactivates powersave in station mode.

It does not work correctly yet, so the code does more harm than good.

(I split the original patch and sent part of it for 2.6.30, which didn't
have the IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER flag. -- JWL)

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoatheros: fix propagation of bad EEPROM on regulatory init
Luis R. Rodriguez [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:41:46 +0000 (21:41 -0400)]
atheros: fix propagation of bad EEPROM on regulatory init

When the EEPROM is not in good condition we cannot continue so
we currently bail out but only ath5k is bailing out properly.
Both ath9k and ar9170 were proceeding and if a user were to run
into this they'd see an obscure panic. Lets propagate the error
as intended and make sure we inform the user by lifting the
error message from debug to a kernel error.

Stable note: You can find a port of this page here:

http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/ath9k-fix-eeprom.patch.txt

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: manipulate rxlink and descriptor address under rxbuf lock
Bob Copeland [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:57:36 +0000 (07:57 -0400)]
ath5k: manipulate rxlink and descriptor address under rxbuf lock

Grabbing an ath5k_buf then dropping the lock is racy because the
referenced descriptor can be obtained in another thread and released
before the buffer is handed to the hardware.  Likewise, manipulating
sc->rxlink without the lock can lead to having multiple self-linked
hardware descriptors.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: use rx hw descriptor pointer for self-linked check
Bob Copeland [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:57:35 +0000 (07:57 -0400)]
ath5k: use rx hw descriptor pointer for self-linked check

This patch simplifies the code used to detect when the
self-linked DMA buffer is still in use by hardware, by
checking the hardware's rxdp register instead of looking
at the software buffer list.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: use bool for modparams
Bob Copeland [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:57:34 +0000 (07:57 -0400)]
ath5k: use bool for modparams

Current code uses int types, but both modparams are boolean values.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: use tasklet_hi_schedule for beacon queue
Bob Copeland [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:57:33 +0000 (07:57 -0400)]
ath5k: use tasklet_hi_schedule for beacon queue

For embedded platforms, beacon transmission can be starved when
flooded with data packets.  Prioritize beacons by giving the beacon
queue the first shot when the isr completes.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: fix initvals errors
Bob Copeland [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:57:32 +0000 (07:57 -0400)]
ath5k: fix initvals errors

This patch corrects a few errors in the initvals tables to match those
in the HAL tables.  Namely, remove a couple of repetitions, fix some
turbo mode errors, and correct a register for the CCK rate power table.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54: remove module_ stubs
Christian Lamparter [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:19:29 +0000 (22:19 +0200)]
p54: remove module_ stubs

Christoph Hellwig pointed out that these stubs are unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Disable autosleep feature for AR9285 based chipsets.
Vivek Natarajan [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:51:01 +0000 (16:21 +0530)]
ath9k: Disable autosleep feature for AR9285 based chipsets.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: add hardware restart function
Johannes Berg [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:09:24 +0000 (10:09 +0200)]
mac80211: add hardware restart function

Some hardware defects may require the hardware to be re-initialised
completely from scratch. Drivers would need much information (for
instance the current MAC address, crypto keys, beaconing information,
etc.) stored duplicated from mac80211 to be able to do this, so let
mac80211 help them.

The new ieee80211_restart_hw() function requires the same code as
resuming, so move that code into a new ieee80211_reconfig() function
in util.c and leave only the suspend code in pm.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath: add module information
Christian Lamparter [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:11:20 +0000 (22:11 +0200)]
ath: add module information

This patch adds licensing, author information and a description to the module.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agortl8187: Remove the "8187B chip detected" message when probing RTL8187B cards
Gábor Stefanik [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:54:27 +0000 (21:54 +0200)]
rtl8187: Remove the "8187B chip detected" message when probing RTL8187B cards

This message appears to be nothing more than a leftover of the
experimental-8187B era. Also, we print the HW type in the hwaddr line,
making this message reduntant. And it's definitely not important
enough to be a KERN_WARNING.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Remove CHANNEL_CW_INT handling in ath9k_hw_calibrate
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:27:01 +0000 (21:57 +0530)]
ath9k: Remove CHANNEL_CW_INT handling in ath9k_hw_calibrate

It is already handled properly in ath9k_hw_getnf.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Fix bug in calibration initialization
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:59 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix bug in calibration initialization

This patch fixes a bug in ath9k_hw_init_cal() where the wrong
calibration was being done for non-AR9285 chipsets.
Also add a few helpful comments.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Use a consistent naming convention
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:56 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Use a consistent naming convention

This patch replaces old 'hal_' prefixes with 'ath9k_'.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Cleanup calibration interface
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:48 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Cleanup calibration interface

This patch cleans up the functions dealing with calibration,
using proper return values.
ath9k_hw_per_calibration(), ath9k_hw_calibrate now return bool values
instead of setting error values in the function arguments.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Initialize ANI timers
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:46 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Initialize ANI timers

The various ANI timers have to be initialized properly when
starting the calibration timer.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Fix bug in determining calibration support
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:43 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix bug in determining calibration support

ADC gain calibration has to be done for all non 2GHZ-HT20 channels.
Regression from "ath9k: use ieee80211_conf on ath9k_hw_iscal_supported()"

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Fix bug in checking HT flag
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:41 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix bug in checking HT flag

The operating HT mode is stored in chanmode and
not channelFlags.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Remove unused channel flags
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:38 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Remove unused channel flags

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Fix bug in scan termination
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:36 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix bug in scan termination

A full HW reset needs to be done on termination of a scan run.
Not setting SC_OP_FULL_RESET resulted in doing a
fast channel change.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Fix memleak on TX DMA failure
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:34 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix memleak on TX DMA failure

The driver-specific region has to be freed in case
of a DMA mapping failure.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: Handle ASPM properly for RFKILL
Sujith [Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:25 +0000 (21:56 +0530)]
ath9k: Handle ASPM properly for RFKILL

Radio enable/disable have to handle ASPM state properly.
This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath9k: reset after PCI FATAL/PERR interrupts
Steven Luo [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:57:54 +0000 (02:57 -0700)]
ath9k: reset after PCI FATAL/PERR interrupts

ath9k_hw_getisr() doesn't appear to set anything in the status mask for
PCI FATAL or PERR interrupts (AR_INTR_SYNC_HOST1_FATAL/PERR), which
the open-source HAL seems to do.  This means that the card isn't reset
after these interrupts.

This patch seems to fix a problem where the wireless drops out with an
"ath9k: received PCI FATAL interrupt" in dmesg after some time; the
hardware is an AR5416 in an ASUS WL-500W running 2.6.28.7 (OpenWRT) and
compat-wireless 2009-03-31.

Signed-off-by: Steven Luo <steven@steven676.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agob43legacy: Clean up beacon IRQ
Larry Finger [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:26:01 +0000 (11:26 -0500)]
b43legacy: Clean up beacon IRQ

This patch ports commit c97a4ccc1fad35d3 "b43: Fix beacon BH update" to
b43legacy. It fixes beacon updating in the bottomhalf. In case the device
is busy, we will defer to later in the IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agob43legacy: Fixes for beaconing
Larry Finger [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:25:24 +0000 (11:25 -0500)]
b43legacy: Fixes for beaconing

This patch ports the beaconing fixes from commit a82d992261f "b43: Beaconing
fixes" to b43legacy. Basically it prevents the card from triggering the beacon
IRQ over and over again.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: convert mutex assert to macro
Johannes Berg [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:32:46 +0000 (13:32 +0200)]
cfg80211: convert mutex assert to macro

That will make the various cases where the WARN_ON
can happen distinguishable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54: remove obsolet signal quality calculation
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:58:14 +0000 (03:58 +0200)]
p54: remove obsolet signal quality calculation

The signal quality percentage is now calculated by mac80211 stack.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54: utilize all available key slots for decryption offload
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:58:01 +0000 (03:58 +0200)]
p54: utilize all available key slots for decryption offload

This patch takes care of outstanding TODOs:
/* TODO: some devices have 4 more free slots for rx keys */

Now the driver can utilize all available key slots instead of just 4.
Obviously, this helps most in AP/IBSS(/MESH) mode, when
we have to use more different keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agorfkill: Fix broken rfkill LED in 2.6.30-rc1
Larry Finger [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:14:19 +0000 (22:14 -0500)]
rfkill: Fix broken rfkill LED in 2.6.30-rc1

The rfkill system fails to issue a LED trigger event when the rfkill state
changes.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agob43: Remove unnecessary MMIO in interrupt hotpath
Michael Buesch [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:26:27 +0000 (21:26 +0200)]
b43: Remove unnecessary MMIO in interrupt hotpath

This removes unnecessary MMIO accesses in the interrupt hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agolibertas: fix warning about %zd:
John W. Linville [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:45:57 +0000 (11:45 -0400)]
libertas: fix warning about %zd:

drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: In function â€˜lbs_process_rxed_packet’:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c:184: warning: format â€˜%zd’ expects type â€˜signed size_t’, but argument 4 has type â€˜__le32’
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c:184: warning: format â€˜%zd’ expects type â€˜signed size_t’, but argument 5 has type â€˜unsigned int’

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: adding interrupt counter in debugfs for debugging
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:32 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlwifi: adding interrupt counter in debugfs for debugging

This patch adds interrupt statistics report to debugfs, this can help to
understand number of interrupts happened which including HW/SW error for
easier and better debugging.

in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyN/iwlagn/data directory
use "cat interrupt" to view the current interrupt counter
use "echo 0 > interrupt" to clear interrupt counter

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlcore: fix channel display in debugfs
Mohamed Abbas [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:31 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlcore: fix channel display in debugfs

Fix displaying of wrong channel information when user query
channel through debugfs

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: check triple_stream_basic_rates in iwl_full_rxon_required
Daniel C Halperin [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:30 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlwifi: check triple_stream_basic_rates in iwl_full_rxon_required

For completeness, we should also make sure that the 3x3 MIMO rates are also checked when seeing if one rxon struct matches another.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlagn: Sync rxon active with changes
Mohamed Abbas [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:29 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlagn: Sync rxon active with changes

We need to sync rxon_active with changes after we commit rxon_assoc,
without rxon_active will still have the old data that cause
iwl_send_rxon_assoc to fail with no change in rxon command.

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: do not set dual_stream_ant_msk for 3 streams
Daniel C Halperin [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:28 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlwifi: do not set dual_stream_ant_msk for 3 streams

This patch fixes a bug introduced by commit "iwlwifi: adding MIMO3 support
in rate scaling". We should not set the dual_stream_ant_msk (for 2x2 MIMO)
when using a 3x3 rate, this will cause a SYSASSERT in uCode.

Note: there is no triple_stream_ant_msk, because all three antennas are used.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: Display decoded rate/mcs information
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:39:27 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
iwlwifi: Display decoded rate/mcs information

This patch adding MCS information in rate_scale_table, it help for
debugging rate scaling algorithm, easy to understand what is the current
rate scale table and matching modulation, plus the last mcs used for tx.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_reset_tsf from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:52 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_reset_tsf from iwlwifi

3945 can now use iwl_mac_reset_tsf from iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_get_tx_stats from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:51 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_get_tx_stats from iwlwifi

3945 can now use iwl_mac_get_tx_stats from iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_config_interface from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:50 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_config_interface from iwlwifi

3945 can now use iwl_mac_config_interface from iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: add config_ap lib op
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:49 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add config_ap lib op

add config_ap lib op to iwlwifi and iwl3945 in preparation
of future 3945 porting actions.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_config from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:48 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_config from iwlwifi

3945 can now use iwl_mac_config from iwlwifi

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_remove_interface from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:47 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_remove_interface from iwlwifi

3945 can now use iwl_mac_remove_interface from iwlwifi

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_add_interface from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:46 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_add_interface from iwlwifi

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_set_mode in 3945
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:45 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_set_mode in 3945

3945 can now use iwl_set_mode from iwlcore library.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: add set_rxon_chain op
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:44 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add set_rxon_chain op

add set_rxon_chain op to iwlwifi cfg ops in preparation of
future 3945 porting work.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_get_sta_id from iwlwifi
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:43 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_get_sta_id from iwlwifi

iwl3945 can now use iwl_get_sta_id.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945/iwlwifi: unify add_station function
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:42 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945/iwlwifi: unify add_station function

Patch unifies the add_station function for 3945 and iwlwifi drivers.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: use station management ops
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:41 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: use station management ops

Patch replaces station management functions with ops declared.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: replace station function with station ops
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:40 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: replace station function with station ops

Patch replaces station function used in driver by station management ops
in 3945.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: add station management ops
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:39 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add station management ops

This patch adds declarations for station management ops to iwlwifi drivers.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: delay mode setting
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:38 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: delay mode setting

Delay mode setting till uCode is ready.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: add commit_rxon lib
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:37 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add commit_rxon lib

Patch adds commit_rxon lib operation to iwlwifi and iwl3945 drivers.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_mac_beacon_update
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:36 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_mac_beacon_update

3945 can use iwl_mac_beacon_update.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwl3945: use iwl_bss_info_changed
Abhijeet Kolekar [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:26:35 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
iwl3945: use iwl_bss_info_changed

3945 can use iwl_bss_info_changed.
A new lib op is created for post_assoicate to distinguish between
3945 and iwlwifi's post_associate operations.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: update injection documentation
Johannes Berg [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:54:41 +0000 (12:54 +0200)]
mac80211: update injection documentation

We don't currently support antenna or rate setting, so remove
that. Also update the link -- the current one is dead and the
wiki can be kept updated easier.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: re-upload keys only after telling driver about association
Johannes Berg [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:55:34 +0000 (02:55 +0200)]
mac80211: re-upload keys only after telling driver about association

In the normal WPA or RSN case keys are only configured after
associating, so we should do that in that order when resuming
as well. It shouldn't really matter since we do not send any
data at either point, but iwlwifi prefers it this way and it
does seem more natural.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agolibertas: add support for Marvell SD8688 chip
Bing Zhao [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:50:56 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
libertas: add support for Marvell SD8688 chip

libertas: add support for Marvell SD8688 chip

Use RxPD->pkt_ptr to locate eth803 header in the packet
received since SD8688/v10 firmware allows a gap between
RxPD and eth803 header.

Set SDIO block size to 256 for CMD53.
The maximum block size for SD8688 WLAN function is set
to 512 in TPLFE_MAX_BLK_SIZE. But using 512 as block size
results upto 2K bytes data (4 blocks) being transferred
and causes buffer overflow in firmware.

Both changes above are backward compatible with earlier
firmware versions for SD8385/SD8686.

The SDIO_DEVICE_IDs for SD8688 chip are added in
include/linux/mmc/sdio_ids.h

Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agop54spi: get rid of busy-wait loops
Max Filippov [Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:03:09 +0000 (01:03 +0400)]
p54spi: get rid of busy-wait loops

p54spi_wakeup and p54spi_tx_frame used busy-waiting loop
to poll for 'ready' bits in SPI_ADRS_HOST_INTERRUPTS register.
With this change in place 'WR_READY timeout' messages do not
show anymore.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: add support for Fukato Datacask Jupiter LEDs
Bob Copeland [Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:01:20 +0000 (11:01 -0400)]
ath5k: add support for Fukato Datacask Jupiter LEDs

This adds support for the LEDs on the Jupiter netbook.

Reported-by: Martin Bammer <mrb74@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agolibertas: increase spi driver thread priority
Anna Neal [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 21:44:09 +0000 (14:44 -0700)]
libertas: increase spi driver thread priority

Currently, the libertas main thread contends with the spi driver thread
in the TX path.  To improve throughput, ensure that the driver thread
has higher scheduling priority than the libertas main thread.  Do this
by making the libertas spi driver thread a low priority real time
thread.

We measured an average throughput improvement of 13%.

Signed-off-by: Anna Neal <anna@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: add cipher capabilities
Johannes Berg [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:14:06 +0000 (20:14 +0200)]
cfg80211: add cipher capabilities

This adds the necessary code and fields to let drivers specify
their cipher capabilities and exports them to userspace. Also
update mac80211 to export the ciphers it has.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: send regulatory beacon hint events to userspace
Luis R. Rodriguez [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:08:09 +0000 (14:08 -0400)]
cfg80211: send regulatory beacon hint events to userspace

This informs userspace when a change has occured on a world
roaming wiphy's channel which has lifted some restrictions
due to a regulatory beacon hint.

Because this is now sent to userspace through the regulatory
multicast group we remove the debug prints we used to use as
they are no longer necessary.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: add netlink channel put helper
Luis R. Rodriguez [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:08:08 +0000 (14:08 -0400)]
cfg80211: add netlink channel put helper

This adds a netlink channel put helper, nl80211_msg_put_channel(),
which we will also make use of later for the beacon hints events.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: respect API on orig_flags on channel for beacon hint
Luis R. Rodriguez [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:08:07 +0000 (14:08 -0400)]
cfg80211: respect API on orig_flags on channel for beacon hint

As part of our documented API we always respect the orig_flag
settings on a channel. We forgot to follow this for the beacon
hints.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: add debug messages when start aggregation queue
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:33:25 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add debug messages when start aggregation queue

This patch adding few more debug messages if encounter error when driver
try to start tx aggregation queue. Also change from IWL_ERR to
IWL_DEBUG_HT is the HW legacy queue is empty when driver request to move
to aggregation queue.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: adding MIMO3 support in rate scaling
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:33:24 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
iwlwifi: adding MIMO3 support in rate scaling

Separated the MIMO tpt matrix into MIMO2 and MIMO3, adding MIMO3 support
in rate scaling algorithm. If the device support 3x3, then utilize all
three antenna (A/B/C) for tx to improve throughput.

Adding rs_switch_to_mimo3() function to allow switch to mimo3 modulation
mode from other modes(legacy/siso/mimo2). Adding rs_move_mimo3_to_other()
function to allow switch from mimo3 modulation mode to either siso or mimo2;
also support toggle between SGI and NGI.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoiwlwifi: adding triple stream rate support for MIMO3
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:33:23 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
iwlwifi: adding triple stream rate support for MIMO3

Adding ht triple_stream_basic_rates for MIMO3 supports

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: fix interpolation with equal power levels
Fabio Rossi [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:37:50 +0000 (20:37 +0200)]
ath5k: fix interpolation with equal power levels

When the EEPROM contains weird values for the power levels we have to
fix the interpolation process.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agob43legacy: Do not select HW_RANDOM
Larry Finger [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:42:36 +0000 (10:42 -0500)]
b43legacy: Do not select HW_RANDOM

Auto-depend on HW_RANDOM, rather than "select"ing it.
This way the user has the choice to enable or disable HWRNG support.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: Report rejected association to user space SME
Jouni Malinen [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:23:54 +0000 (17:23 +0300)]
mac80211: Report rejected association to user space SME

When using nl80211 association, we need to send association response
with a failure code to user space SME instead of just internally
trying to send out the same (re)association request again couple of
times. This fixes problems in association process getting stuck on a
failure when user space is not notified in any way that something
actually failed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: include HT capabilities in probe request
Johannes Berg [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:12:07 +0000 (12:12 +0200)]
mac80211: include HT capabilities in probe request

Include the HT capabilities in the probe request frame.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agomac80211: pass all probe request IEs to driver
Johannes Berg [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:58:36 +0000 (11:58 +0200)]
mac80211: pass all probe request IEs to driver

Instead of just passing the cfg80211-requested IEs, pass
the locally generated ones as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agocfg80211: introduce scan IE limit attribute
Johannes Berg [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:12:05 +0000 (12:12 +0200)]
cfg80211: introduce scan IE limit attribute

This patch introduces a new attribute for a wiphy that tells
userspace how long the information elements added to a probe
request frame can be at most. It also updates the at76 to
advertise that it cannot support that, and, for now until I
can fix that, iwlwifi too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
15 years agoath5k: sparse fix ath5k_led_on needs to be static
Luis R. Rodriguez [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:30:35 +0000 (22:30 -0400)]
ath5k: sparse fix ath5k_led_on needs to be static

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/led.c:81:6: warning:
symbol 'ath5k_led_on' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>