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>
Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch implements a simple way of reducing the
output power of the device by a configurable upper
limit.
Requested-by: Harshal Chhaya <harshal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The firmware keeps track of channel usage. This data can
be used by the automatic channel selection to find the
*best* channel.
Survey data from wlan22
frequency: 2412 MHz [in use]
noise: -86 dBm
channel active time: 3339608 ms
channel busy time: 270982 ms
channel transmit time: 121515 ms
Survey data from wlan22
frequency: 2417 MHz
noise: -86 dBm
channel active time: 70 ms
channel busy time: 2 ms
channel transmit time: 1 ms
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9170_PWR_REG_PLL_ADDAC is used to set the main clock
divisor which affects the AHB/CPU speed. Because this
would interfere with the firmware internal timekeeping,
the function has to be moved into the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-By: christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
By removing two "safety" msleeps (and an echo nop), the
channel change delay is effectively halved. Previously,
the delay could be as long as 260 ms and the device
could not go off-channel without risking to miss the
next DTIM beacon [interval ~307 ms].
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds a forgotten bail-out path.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces the handcrafted
sign extension cruft with a generic
bitop function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Fabian Frederick