There are new (not anymore?) Broadcom 802.11ac wireless cards based on
chipsets like BCM4352 and BCM4360. They use a new PHY type (called
simply AC) that will require new specific code.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Add lists of chipsets, so people can enable support for their device
easier (at least after checking lspci).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This allows new devices users to save some space.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are extra configs specific to the SSB. Lack of this dependency and
CONFIG_B43=y
CONFIG_B43_BUSES_BCMA=y
CONFIG_SSB=m
would result in:
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `b43_sdio_remove':
> sdio.c:(.text+0x14657f): undefined reference to `ssb_bus_unregister'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `b43_sdio_probe':
> sdio.c:(.text+0x14672f): undefined reference to `ssb_bus_sdiobus_register'
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds choice submenu "Supported bus types" as two simple bool
configs would allow user to compile b43 without any bus support
(prety useless).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Users of new (BCMA based) wireless chipsets may not want to enable SSB.
This is hopefully the last code patch for dropping SSB dependency.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Logically, config B43_BCMA_PIO should depend on B43. This also solves
the problem that sub options of b43 driver didn't indent correctly in
make menuconfig's ncurses window.
Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This allows enabling support for extra hardware with just a module
param, without kernel/module recompilation.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
N-PHY and HT-PHY support is more or less stable and should be activated
by default.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When b43 gets build into the kernel and it should use bcma we have to
ensure that bcma was also build into the kernel and not as a module.
In this patch this is also done for SSB, although you can not
build b43 without ssb support for now.
This fixes a build problem reported by Randy Dunlap in
5187EB95.2060605@infradead.org
Reported-By: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
HT-PHY was found only on BCM4331 which is a BCMA-based chipset. This is
reallly unlikely we will ever see HT-PHY on SSB thus make the whole code
BCMA specific. This will allow us to call various BCMA-specific
functions directly (without extra checks).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also add a missing 'the' before 'runtime performance'.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
CC: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There's no Kconfig symbol BRCMSMAC_MODULE, so the check for it will
always fail. There's no need to append _MODULE to tristate symbols
anyhow, because the config tools will do the right thing automagically.
(While we're touching this Kconfig file replace a tab between "default"
and "y" with a space.)
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
It was tested on three BCM4331 devices, code has been written from MMIO
dumps only, but seems to be quite stable.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have module param called use_pio which is much easier to use.
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since kernel 3.0, the problems with controlling b43 devices that have
low-power (LP) PHYs have been fixed and the EXPERIMENTAL designation
can be fixed.
This patch also fixes a typo as the device supports 802.11b communications.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We've fixed the last issue with BCMA support which caused memory
corruption on loading and unloading b43. Support for BCMA in b43 was
tested with 14e4:4353, 14e4:4357, 14e4:4727 and 14e4:4331. First two
cards (BCM43224 and BCM43225) are supported.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
LCN-PHY was found in 14e4:4727 card. It uses LCN/1 and 0x2064/1 radio.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is always "y" for now, b43 will not compile without CONFIG_SSB yet.
This is just a first step of dropping SSB dependency.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is totally broken plus we do not have specs for HT PHY yet. Just
introduce place for writing driver if we discover anything.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It does nothing useful yet, so it is matched as BROKEN.
For now this is just an option for b43, in future we may want to make
b43 support SSB or BCMA (note: or, not xor).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when
DMA doesn't work.
The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user
reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it
automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is
wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO
case.
(Some post-2.6.33 merge fixups by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
and yours truly... -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If userencounter the "Fatal DMA Problem" with a BCM43XX device, and
still wish to use b43 as the driver, their only option is to rebuild
the kernel with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO. This patch removes this option and
allows PIO mode to be selected with a load-time parameter for the module.
Note that the configuration variable CONFIG_B43_PIO is also removed.
Once the DMA problem with the BCM4312 devices is solved, this patch will
likely be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the WLAN_PRE80211 drivers moved to drivers/staging, this
distinction becomes unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SDIO works (more or less), so remove the BROKEN dependency and
let people test it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for Soft-MAC SDIO devices to b43.
The driver still lacks some fixes for SDIO devices, so it's currently
marked as BROKEN.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
PCMCIA support works well and is not experimental anymore.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The most common LP-PHY device, BCM4312, is now fully functional.
So, no need to say "probably won't work for you" anymore.
It's also not "for debuggers and developers only", as it is
perfectly usable for end-users now (at least for BCM4312).
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry has reported success getting scan data with an LP-PHY device,
so it's probably time to release LP-PHY support for testing.
Also disable 802.11a support for now, as 802.11a currently causes
the driver to panic on startup (NULL pointer dereference).
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ports the b43/legacy rfkill code to the new API offered
by cfg80211 and thus removes a lot of useless stuff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:
* all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
rather than having one central implementation
* updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
lots of code
* rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
internally -- the core should do this
* the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister
* rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
should be avoided
* rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module
* drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
that do nothing if it isn't compiled in
* the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()
* the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS
* the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
operations in locked sections
* fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
changes -- this wasn't done before
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dynamically control the log verbosity with a module parameter.
This enables us to dynamically enable debugging messages (or disable
info, warn, error messages) via module parameter or /sys/module/b43/parameters/verbose.
This increases the module size by about 3k. But in practice it reduces the
module size for the user, because some distributions ship the b43 module
with CONFIG_B43_DEBUG set, which increases the module by about 15k.
So with this patch applied, distributions should really _disable_ CONFIG_B43_DEBUG.
There is no reason to keep it in a production-release kernel.
So we have a net reduction in size by about 12k.
This patch also adds a printk of the wireless core revision, so people
don't have to enable SSB debugging to get the wireless core revision.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds template code for the LP-PHY.
No actual functionality is implemented.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This changes the b43-PIO code to use the new SSB block-I/O.
This reduces the overhead by removing lots of function calls, pointer
dereferencing, if-conditionals any byteswapping for each packet data word.
This also fixes a harmless sparse endianness warning.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds PIO support back (D'oh!) for PCMCIA devices.
This is a complete rewrite of the old PIO code. It does actually work
and we get reasonable performance out of it on a modern machine.
On a PowerBook G4 I get a few MBit for TX and a few more for RX.
So it doesn't work as well as DMA (of course), but it's a _lot_ faster
than the old PIO code (only got a few kBit with that).
The limiting factor is the host CPU speed. So it will generate 100%
CPU usage when the network interface is heavily loaded. A voluntary preemption
point in the RX path makes sure Desktop Latency isn't hurt.
PIO is needed for 16bit PCMCIA devices, as we really don't want to poke with
the braindead DMA mechanisms on PCMCIA sockets. Additionally, not all
PCMCIA sockets do actually support DMA in 16bit mode (mine doesn't).
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bridge code was unnecessary enabled by the b44
driver, but it prevents the bcm43xx driver from
being loaded, as the bridge claims the same pci ids.
Now we enable the birdge only if the b43{legacy}
drivers are selected.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds a new Kconfig option for enabling probing of N-PHYs.
This option will be removed again once the stuff works.
For now it is to help in development. This way real users won't
execute the broken N-PHY codepaths, but the developers can easily
enable N-PHY stuff.
To enable N-PHY probing simply remove the BROKEN dependency
and enable the option in the kernel config.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove b43 PIO support.
DMA works well on all supported devices. There's no reason to use PIO.
Additionally, new devices don't support PIO in hardware anymore.
b43 PIO support is dead and unused code.
After applying this patch please do
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.h
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.c
to remove the main PIO support code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the direct call to rfkill on an rfkill event
and replaces it with an input device. This way userspace is also
notified about the event.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds full support for the RFKILL button and
the RFKILL LED trigger.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rafał Miłecki