The driver for the RTL8187L chips returns IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK for all
packets, even if the maximum number of retries was exhausted. In addition
it fails to setup max_rates in the ieee80211_hw struct, This behavior
may be responsible for the problems noted in Bug 14168. As the bug is very
old, testers have not been found, and I do not have the case where the
indicated signal is less than -70 dBm.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).
Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.
Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These drivers share one header file, but nothing else. Worse, both
drivers use the rtl8225 part with different register settings. The
results has been some ugly naming -- let's simplify that.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Current 8187B initialization misses anaparam registers restore after
8187 reset. This causes ANAPARAM register to stay zeroed out (ANAPARAM2
kept its value on my tests). To avoid this, call rtl8187_set_anaparam
right after chip reset (to be on the safe side, as it makes sure we
restore all ANAPARAM registers).
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: seno <senada@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Usually you set RTL818X_CONFIG3_ANAPARAM_WRITE when you are going to
change/write ANAPARAM registers. But in current initialization of
RTL8187B there is a place where ANAPARAM_WRITE bit is set without any
ANAPARAM register being written, without reason, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: seno <senada@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are repeated calls for anaparam on/off sequence in the code.
Consolidate the common code in rtl8187_set_anaparam and use it where
needed.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The GNTSel bit should only concern pci devices by looking at RTL8180
spec, which is not the case of 8187B. Also testing shows that trying to
set this bit fails, a subsequent read from the register after trying to
set it shows that the bit isn't set, seems the hardware ignores it,
which makes sense. This setting was a left over from Realtek sources.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On 8187B start, comment about pll reset, and move it out of ANAPARAM
write sequence, so that code is more readable.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The table with misc register initialization was setting it, and later
on we would set it again with a explicity call to rtl818x_iowrite16_idx.
Remove duplicate initialization from the register table.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We were using wrong address for BRSR (Basic Rate Set Register) while
initializing its value, comparing with Realtek sources, for 8187B case.
Also, the same register is initialized in rtl8187b_reg_table, so remove
the duplicate initialization from the table.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On 8187B path, we set a initial value for beacon interval and atim
window on initialization. But this isn't needed, since same setup is
done on rtl8187_config.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes redundant write to Auto Rate Fallback Register on RTL8187B.
The same value was being written twice in the same function. Avoid this
removing the duplicate initialization on rtl8187b_reg_table, and also
add comment for this write (information from Realtek source).
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clearing the per packet TX AGC for the RTL8187B device appears to
increase its overall TX power. This allows the device to associate and a
connection to be established using APs a little further away.
This is in accordance to what is done for RTL8187L devices and also what
Realtek drivers do.
Tested-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news@gmail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: seno <senada@t-online.de>
Tested-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 030725d2c7.
This commit relies on commit 5ed3bc7288
("mac80211: use netif_receive_skb in ieee80211_tx_status callpath")
Unfortunately not all drivers are calling ieee80211_tx_status from a
compatible context, so that commit needs to be reverted in 2.6.36.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit c96c31e499
"(drivers/net/wireless: Use wiphy_<level>)"
inadvertently changed some upper case words to
lower case. Restore the original case.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_rtl8225.c
drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_rtl8225.c:53:33: warning: dubious: x | !y
The existing code is clever and works fine, but it's not worth even a
single line of Sparse warning SPAM...
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The existing code seemed to be somewhat based on the datasheet, but
varied substantially from the vendor-provided driver. This mirrors the
handling of the rtl8185 case from that driver, but still neglects the
specifics for the rtl8180 hardware. Those details are a bit muddled...
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup patch.
Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From the original report:
"I had problems to get my rtl8185 PCI card running on Sparc64: I always
got an error about "No suitable DMA available" followed by an error
that no device could be detected. When comparing the rtl8180 driver to
others I noticed that others are mostly using DMA_BIT_MASK so I changed
the custom mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(32) which fixed my issue."
Reported-by: Tiziano Müller <tm@dev-zero.ch>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Device documentation suggests that hardware support for beaconing
is available. But I implemented software-based beacon generation
as an experiment and it seems better to have that working now rather
than waiting for something better to materialize.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When reporting Tx status, indicate that only one rate was used.
Otherwise, the rate is frozen at rate index 0 (i.e. 1Mb/s).
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
In preparation for new rtl818x devices, move the existing rtl818x configuration
into the rtl818x directory.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.
+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Add new RTL8187B device.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger