Currently then dwell times for each channel in scans is set to an overly
long value, and excessive number of probe-requests are transmitted on each
channel (for active scans.)
Based on testing, comparable results can be received with smaller dwell-time,
and, with fever probe-requests - in fact, reducing the number of probe-requests
to 2 seems to increase the number of found results.
Configure more optimal values for per channel dwell times. Comparison for the
different scan configurations (in my current office environment):
dwell-time 60000 3x probe-req == ~60 results
40000 3x probe-req == ~50 results
30000 3x probe-req == ~40 results
dwell-time 60000 2x probe-req == ~70 results
40000 2x probe-req == ~60 results
30000 2x probe-req == ~58 results
The above are results for a cumulative 3 scan run. For individual scans, the
number of results drop slightly more.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Currently, the driver does not handle a failing hardware command to scan in
any way - effectively, the scan machine will jam until the driver is shut down,
and future scan requests will just return -EBUSY to user space, resulting in
a type of busy-loop. The same problem occurs if the firmware fails to deliver
the scan completion event - add timeout for this.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
The current scan implementation can jam, if the scan request ends up
containing no work. This can especially happen if there is a scan request
with only 11a band channels for HW that does not support 11a.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
This patch changes __attribute__ ((packed)) annotations to __packed in wl1271
code that was introduced in a recent patch in wireless-testing.
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch is a complete rewrite of the scanning code. It now includes a
state machine to scan all four possible sets of channels independently:
2.4GHz active, 2.4GHz passive, 5GHz active and 5GHz passive. The wl1271
firmware doesn't allow these sets to be mixed, so up to several scan commands
have to be issued. This patch also allows scanning more than 24 channels per
set, by breaking the sets into smaller parts if needed (the firmware can scan
a maximum of 24 channels at a time).
Previously, the scanning code was erroneously scanning all channels possible
actively, not complying with the CRDA values. This is also fixed with this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Saravanan Dhanabal <ext-saravanan.dhanabal@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The scanning code is going to get a bit more complex, with proper support for
active/passive scans together with 2.4GHz and 5GHz. In the future, also a
new type of scan (periodic scan) will be added. When all this is
implemented, the code is going to be much more complex, so we'd better
separate it into a separate file.
This patch doesn't have any impact on functionality.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Saravanan Dhanabal <ext-saravanan.dhanabal@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen