Instead of hard-coding the SM PS mode per hardware,
this makes iwlwifi support the new mac80211 API for
controlling the SM PS mode.
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>
This feature enables the on-screen uCode event log dump. The original
method will append the event log to syslog; with this capability,
we also enable the user to write script to capture the
events which provide additional flexibility to help uCode debugging
Method
1) change to debugfs directory (sys/kernel/debug/phyX/iwlagn/data)
2) #cat log_event
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>
In order to help uCode debugging, adding the capability to provide
continuous uCode event logging function.
uCode events is located in round-robin event queue and filled by uCode,
by enable continuous event logging, driver check the write pointer
and log the newly added events in iwl_bg_ucode_trace() timer function.
There is still possibility of missing events if event queue being
wrapped before next event dump; but with this capability, we can have
much better understanding of the uCode behavior during runtime; it can
help to debug the uCode related issues.
Methods to enable/disable the continuous event log:
step 1: enable ucode trace timer
"echo 1 >
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/iwlagn/debug/ucode_tracing"
step 2: start ftrace
sudo ./trace-cmd record -e iwlwifi_ucode:* sleep 1d
step 3: stop ftrace
sudo ./trace-cmd report trace.dat
step 4: disable ucode trace timer
"echo 0 >
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/iwlagn/debug/ucode_tracing"
use "ucode_tracing" debugfs file to display number of event
queue wrapped when driver attempt the continuous event logging. If event
queue being wrapped more than once when driver has opportunity to log
the event; it indicated there are events missing in the event log trace.
This continuous event log function only available for 4965 and newer
NICs.
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>
Change name from RF_CARD_DISABLED to CT_CARD_DISABLED to match the
indication from uCode, also log the debug message when the condition
detected in iwl_rx_card_state_notif()
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>
Recent powersaving work resulted in power management ops being called
during EEPROM initialization. The lock used by these functions is not
initialized at this time. Ensure lock is initialized before it is used.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When trigger event log dumping from debugfs, the entire event log
should be dumped and the size should match the number of events being
dump.
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>
error_event_table_ptr is only set upon receipt of REPLY_ALIVE. Until
then both event log and error log will fail. Add information to indicate
which uCode encounter the failure case.
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>
To help iwlagn uCode debugging, event log will dump to syslog when driver
detect uCode error occurred, but this only happen when compile with
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG and debug flag is enabled; which is not always
the case. Also, there is another problem, if the flag is set, the entire
event log buffer will be dump to syslog, it can flood the syslog and
make it very difficult to debug the problem.
Change the default to only dump last 20 entries of event log to syslog
unless the following condition meets:
1. both compile with CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG and debug flag
is enabled, and then dump the entire event buffer to syslog.
2. dump event log request from debugfs
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
uCode error log contain information as to what the error was and where
it occurred necessary to debug any uCode issues.
Always log the information without special debug flag, this can help to
capture the important information when error happened.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update the PCI_ID list for 5xx0 series.
Remove all the PCI_IDs which never made into production or not longer in
production.
Also make sure the supported bands(a/b/g/n) match specified PCI_IDs
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>
Setting "Spatial multiplexing Power Save" as part of
per device configuration parameter.
Report to uCode based on priv->conf setting, so driver can
have more control of how different devices should operate
in power save mode.
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>
LED blinking rate is based on tx/rx traffic, the most reasonable place
to do it is after update the traffic byte counts
This fixes the recent LED blinking breakage on 3945 introduced by "iwlwifi:
separate led function from statistic notification"
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CSR_INT_COALESCING previously had only one, but now has two single-byte fields.
With only one single-byte field (lowest order byte) it was okay to write via
iwl_write32(), but now with two, an iwl_write32() to the lower order field
clobbers the other field (odd-address CSR_INT_PERIODIC_REG, offset 0x5), and an
iwl_write32() to CSR_INT_PERIODIC_REG could clobber the lowest byte of the
next-higher register (CSR_INT, offset 0x8).
Fortunately, no bad side effects have been produced by the iwl_write32()
usage, due to order of execution (low order byte was always written before
higher order byte), and the fact that writing "0" to the low byte of the
next higher register has no effect (only action is when writing "1"s).
Nonetheless, this cleans up the accesses so no bad side effects might occur
in the future, if execution order changes, or more bit fields get added to
CSR_INT_COALESCING.
Add some comments regarding periodic interrupt usage.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys
which make more sense as flags as we keep adding
more. Convert the existing ones.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits)
cxgb3: fix premature page unmap
ibm_newemac: Fix EMACx_TRTR[TRT] bit shifts
vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path
gro: Fix illegal merging of trailer trash
sungem: Fix Serdes detection.
net: fix mdio section mismatch warning
ppp: fix BUG on non-linear SKB (multilink receive)
ixgbe: Fixing EEH handler to handle more than one error
net: Fix the rollback test in dev_change_name()
Revert "isdn: isdn_ppp: Use SKB list facilities instead of home-grown implementation."
TI Davinci EMAC : Fix Console Hang when bringing the interface down
smsc911x: Fix Console Hang when bringing the interface down.
mISDN: fix error return in HFCmulti_init()
forcedeth: mac address fix
r6040: fix version printing
Bluetooth: Fix regression with L2CAP configuration in Basic Mode
Bluetooth: Select Basic Mode as default for SOCK_SEQPACKET
Bluetooth: Set general bonding security for ACL by default
r8169: Fix receive buffer length when MTU is between 1515 and 1536
can: add the missing netlink get_xstats_size callback
...
The entire aggregation code currently operates on the
hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to
change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step
preparing for that make the aggregation code callable
with the station, or by the combination of virtual
interface and station address.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using the new mac80211 functionality, this makes
iwlwifi handle unicast PS buffering correctly.
The device works like this:
* when a station goes to sleep, the microcode notices
this and marks the station as asleep
* when the station is marked asleep, the microcode
refuses to transmit to the station and rejects all
frames queued to it with the failure status code
TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS (a previous patch handled
this correctly)
* when we need to send frames to the station _although_
it is asleep, we need to tell the ucode how many,
and this is asynchronous with sending so we cannot
just send the frames, we need to wait for all other
frames to be flushed, and then update the counter
before sending out the poll response frames. This
is handled partially in the driver and partially in
mac80211.
In order to do all this correctly, we need to
* keep track of how many frames are pending for each
associated client station (avoid doing it for other
stations to avoid the atomic ops)
* tell mac80211 that we driver-block the PS status
while there are still frames pending on the queues,
and once they are all rejected (due to the dest sta
being in PS) unblock mac80211
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>
Handle BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED to enable the sending
of beacons. Also set the correct HT RXON and QoS config.
Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
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>
When sending beacon commands to the uCode, we must
inform it of the offset in the beacon frame of the
TIM Element so it can transmit packets from the
correct queue. This functionality is implemented
in iwl_set_beacon_tim().
Fix a bug setting the rate_n_flags for the beacon
packet. First, it should not use the station table's
rate (it's a management frame), and second it needs
to properly configure the TX antennas.
Finally, also, clean up and comment relevant functions.
Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
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>
When issue REPLY_STATISTICS_CMD to uCode, two possible flag
can be set in the configuration flags
bit 0: Clear statistics
0: Do not clear Statistics counters
1: Clear to zero Statistics counters
Allow "clear" parameter to be set from the caller.
Add debugfs file to clear the statistics counters to help monitor and
debug the uCode behavior.
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>
drop the non-production PCI-IDs for 6x50 series
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>
Add txq_id info to "Tx queue requesting wakeup" debug message
Add "Rx queue requesting wakeup" debug message
Move clear of CSR_GP_CNTRL_REG_FLAG_MAC_ACCESS_REQ to be after nearby
iwl_write_prph(), since iwl_write_prph() sets it and clears it. Almost
removed it entirely, but just making sure in case someone removes the
iwl_write_prph()! Also remove unneeded priv->lock usage; this is now
handled by priv->reg_lock within iwl_clear_bit().
Join a couple of lines that had unneeded line returns.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Follow-up to "update write pointers for all tx queues after wakeup"; that
patch changed iwl_irq_tasklet_legacy(), but not iwl_irq_tasklet(), so
newer devices were not covered.
Comments from original patch:
Wakeup interrupt has been updating write pointers (indexes, actually) only
for tx queues 0-5. This is adequate just for 3945, but inadequate for other
devices, all of which have more tx queues. Now updating all tx/command queues,
so device can be aware of all new tx and host commands enqueued while
device was asleep.
This can potentially improve data traffic bandwidth and/or latency.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Take advantage of device's auto-increment for SRAM reads to eliminate extra
write address accesses.
Grab/release NIC access before/after entire read sequence, rather than for
each read individually.
After a quick check of dmesg logs, this seems to double Event Log dump speed,
reducing from about 20 milliseconds to about 10 milliseconds for 512 entries
using 3945.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If device provides bad values for Event Log parameters (due to being asleep
or SRAM corruption, etc.), the size can be very, very large (e.g. 0xa5a5a5a5),
which can flood system log.
Sanity-check capacity and next_entry values and limit to reasonable size dump.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the support for all the PCI_IDs never make into production
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>
Different channel has different configuration, need to pass correct
configuration to uCode when send "channel switch" command to uCode.
Invalid configuration will cause sysassert in uCode and produce
un-expected result.
Even it is a very small windows, but we also need to consider and handle
the case if commit_rxon occurred before the "channel switch
announcement" notification received from uCode.
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>
To help debug rx related issues, if IWL_DEBUG_RADIO flag is set, print
the rxon configuration when rxon host command send to uCode.
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>
When 802.11g was introduced, we had RTS/CTS and CTS-to-Self protection
mechanisms. In an HT Beacon, HT stations use the "Operating Mode" field
in the HT Information Element to determine whether or not to use
protection.
The Operating Mode field has 4 possible settings: 0-3:
Mode 0: If all stations in the BSS are 20/40 MHz HT capable, or if the
BSS is 20/40 MHz capable, or if all stations in the BSS are 20 MHz HT
stations in a 20 MHz BSS
Mode 1: used if there are non-HT stations or APs using the primary or
secondary channels
Mode 2: if only HT stations are associated in the BSS and at least one
20 MHz HT station is associated.
Mode 3: used if one or more non-HT stations are associated in the BSS.
When in operating modes 1 or 3, and the Use_Protection field is 1 in the
Beacon's ERP IE, all HT transmissions must be protected using RTS/CTS or
CTS-to-Self.
By default, CTS-to-self is the preferred protection mechanism for less
overhead and higher throughput; but using the full RTS/CTS will better
protect the inner exchange from interference, especially in
highly-congested environment.
For 6000 series WIFI NIC, RTS/CTS protection mechanism is the
recommended choice for HT traffic based on the HW design.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Spatial Multiplexing Power Save was disabled to achieve better
throughput while in power save mode by activating all the rx chains all the time.
By doing so, the device power consumption is high.
Enable static/dynamic spatial multiplexing power save if device support
it, which can lower the power consumption without impact throughput.
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>
In preparation for some station management changes we split the addition of
a broadcast station from the other stations. Later we will rely on mac80211
to direct all management (addition/removal) of all stations except the
broadcast station.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since iwlagn is the only user of these functions, move it to this module.
This results in a bit more code moving than just these functions since the
functions only used by them are also moved and we need to export the
symbols previously available to them directly.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wakeup interrupt has been updating write pointers (indexes, actually) only
for tx queues 0-5. This is adequate just for 3945, but inadequate for other
devices, all of which have more tx queues. Now updating all tx/command queues,
so device can be aware of all new tx and host commands enqueued while
device was asleep.
This can potentially improve data traffic bandwidth and/or latency.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add/clarify comments and debug messages for interrupt used only for uCode load
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To save power, don't run apm_ops.init() until needed at "up" time.
EEPROM (5000 and earlier devices) may be read without running apm_ops.init(),
but OTP reads (6000 and newer devices) require a powered-up chip.
Therefore, remove apm_ops.init() from the general path in XXXX_pci_probe(),
and call it only if device uses OTP. Once done with OTP read, call
apm_ops.stop() to reset chip and save power until "up" time comes around.
NOTE: This patch depends on removal of priv->lock from iwl_apm_stop();
lock does not get initialized until later in flow. See patch
"remove unneeded locks from apm_stop()".
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
By setting the firmware version in wiphy it is possible to obtain this
information via ethtool. Some examples,
# ethtool -i wlan1
driver: iwlagn
version: 2.6.32-rc5-wl-56840-g26d8540
firmware-version: 228.57.2.23
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0
# ethtool -i wlan0
driver: iwl3945
version: 2.6.32-rc5-wl-56840-g26d8540
firmware-version: 15.28.2.8
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add unconditional call to apm_ops.stop() to reset device to low power state
when unloading driver. Some paths have existed to unload driver *without*
resetting device, therefore some errors have persisted through multiple
load/unload cycles, until the whole platform gets rebooted; this is an
attempt to remedy some of those situations. Sorry, I can't seem to find
a bughost.org bug that specifically has these symptoms, but I had it happen
recently here.
Note that this will *not* fix situations in which the PCI express bus has
crashed (evidenced by register reads showing "0xffffffff"), e.g. bughost.org
1855 and 2096; device is unreachable from driver in those cases.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For notification packets and SKBs that fail to rx correctly, add
them back into the rx_free list so that the pages can be reused
later. This avoids allocating new rx pages unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the paged rx patch (4854fde2), I introduced a bug that could possibly
touch an already freed page. It is fixed by avoiding the access in this
patch. I've also added some comments so that other people touching the
code won't make the same mistake. In the future, if we cannot avoid
access the page after being handled to the upper layer, we can use
get_page/put_page to handle it. For now, it's just not necessary.
It also fixed a debug message print bug reported by Stanislaw Gruszka
<sgruszka@redhat.com>.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Detach led background task from statistic notification routine. if led
blinking is required; the blink rate is based on the traffic condition.
It do not relate to statistics notification. In addition to that, there is
not a requirement for statistics notification has to occur all the time.
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>
Currently mac80211 initializes the rate scaling before notifying the driver
of the station's existence. The driver dealt with this by not relying on
mac80211's station notifications and instead mixing this functionality with
the rate scaling code and other places. To clean this up the driver needs
to do rate scaling initialization after being notified of the station, this
can be done if the rate scaling information forms part of the station
information passed from mac80211 to driver.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function is only used in iwlagn so there is no need to have it in
iwlcore.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This switches the iwlwifi driver to use paged skb from linear skb for Rx
buffer. So that it relieves some Rx buffer allocation pressure for the
memory subsystem. Currently iwlwifi (4K for 3945) requests 8K bytes for
Rx buffer. Due to the trailing skb_shared_info in the skb->data,
alloc_skb() will do the next order allocation, which is 16K bytes. This
is suboptimal and more likely to fail when the system is under memory
usage pressure. Switching to paged Rx skb lets us allocate the RXB
directly by alloc_pages(), so that only order 1 allocation is required.
It also adjusts the area spin_lock (with IRQ disabled) protected in the
tasklet because tasklet guarentees to run only on one CPU and the new
unprotected code can be preempted by the IRQ handler. This saves us from
spawning another workqueue to make skb_linearize/__pskb_pull_tail happy
(which cannot be called in hard irq context).
Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb
for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation
required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames,
we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211
to handle them properly.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some cases (e.g. when mac80211 calls iwl_mac_stop() for suspend or user
no longer wants device active), device has not been going into low power state
via __iwl_down(). apm_ops.reset() does not put device into low power state;
instead it resets the device, then puts it into a powered-up state ready to be
re-loaded with uCode and re-started. This has needlessly warmed up user's
laptops and drained batteries.
With current architecture in which mac80211 controls device up/down (including
resetting device after firmware errors), there is no need for apm_ops.reset()
any more; apm_ops.reset() is basically a combination of apm_ops.stop() and
apm_ops.init().
Instead, __iwl_down() now unconditionally places the device into a low-power
state via apm_ops.stop(). Device may be re-started via __iwl_up() calling
apm_ops.init() as soon as it may be needed (e.g. quickly for firmware errors),
but in the meantime, device will stop wasting energy.
Note that, even in this low power state, if driver re-enables interrupts,
the device retains the ability to sense the hardware RF-KILL switch, and
(except for 3945) interrupt the host when it changes.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Need to free the dynamic allocated memory before ieee80211_free_hw();
once call ieee80211_free_hw(), should not reference to "priv" data
structure.
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>
John W. Linville