Check successful completion of BSM loading. Give a chance to
load BSM again. If BSM loading is unsuccessful we should exit
and not initilize NIC. Before this checking even if the BSM loading failed
driver tries to initilize the NIC which should not be the case.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
4965 hardware has 7 queues reserved and the
remaining ones used for aggregation, 5000
and higher need to have 10 reserved. This
is not very clear in the code right now,
unfortunately.
Introduce a new IWL_TX_FIFO_UNUSED constant
and make the queue/FIFO mapping arrays able
to hold that value, and change the setup
code to reserve all queues in the arrays
(the queue number is the index) and use the
new unused constant to not map those queues
to any FIFO.
Additionally, clear up the AC/queue mapping
code to be more understandable. The mapping
is the identity mapping right now, but with
the mapping function I think it's easier to
understand what happens there.
Finally, HCCA isn't implemented at all and
I think newer microcode removed it, so let's
remove all mention of it in the code, some
comments remain for 4965.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Add internal short scan support for 3945 NIC, This allows 3945 NIC
to support radio reset request like the other series of NICs.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
small change to remove unnecessary "ret" parameter since it not being
used.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
"internal_scan" debugfs function serves the same propose of mode "0" of
"force_reset" debugfs function. Remove it to avoid duplicate.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
iwl_apm_stop_master and iwl_internal_short_hw_scan
are only used within iwlcore and thus do not need to be exported.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
For later station notification support we would like WEP key setting to be
done synchronously always. Currently all places from which WEP key is set
can sleep, but the usage of sta_lock prevents it to do so. Modify the
locking to use priv->mutex instead and thus enable this call to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
small code cleanup to remove un-necessary parameters
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
These files are incompatible with some changes
I'm making, and don't really belong into sysfs
anyway as they can only be used for debugging.
Since writing them will probably crash the
firmware, keep only the reading part and move
them into debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Since rfkill integration, mac80211 can no
longer add an interface while the hardware
is not ready, so STATUS_MODE_PENDING can
never be set.
Also, remove another superfluous channel
sanity check and return the commit_rxon
return value in case it failed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
This code will never trigger, because when
we call this during interface start, neither
priv->vif nor priv->iw_mode conditions will
be true, and when it happens during reset
then priv->vif is also NULL. Also, in both
cases the same code will be executed as part
of iwl_bss_info_changed(), which contains a
copy of this code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Only used on 3945, so it can be in the
3945-specific part of the data.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Not all queues are mapped for frame transmission,
so saying "AC" is misleading. They are all mapped
to FIFOs, obviously, though, so use that term and
also say AC/CMD instead of just AC for the queue
type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
iwl_mac_beacon_update can only be called
when the operating mode is IBSS, so it
doesn't need to verify that again.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
mac80211 will always enforce using a channel
that the driver allowed for IBSS use.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
This variable is assigned a default value,
but then assigned zero as soon as mac80211
calls a change channel (which will happen
right after the hw is started) and after
that it never changes again.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
With some of the new code in mac80211, public action
frames can be exchanged as non-injected frames even
while not associated.
Aside from that, dropping frames here is pointless
since we do deal with arbitrary frames that were
injected already, so let mac80211 make the decision
about which frames to allow or not.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
iwl_mac_reset_tsf will only ever be called in
IBSS mode, so checking for other modes is not
useful and the code that depends on that will
not be executed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
mac80211 will not allow using channels not
marked as allowing IBSS for IBSS mode.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Updating the variables last_rx_rssi, last_tsf
and last_beacon_time needs a lot of code but
they are not actually used in iwlagn (only in
3945) so we can move them to the 3945 specific
data.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Since the ICT data is all AGN specific, it can
be the first data to create the _agn part of the
device-specific union in the priv struct.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To be obviously correct, this patch only modifies
3945 files and the struct definition. A follow-up
patch will create the AGN part of the union.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
All the ICT ISR code is iwlagn specific, and doesn't
need to be in iwlcore. So create a new iwl-agn.h
header file that will hold agn specific function
declarations etc., and move the ICT code into a new
iwl-agn-ict.c file that is linked into iwlagn. This
also gets rid of exporting those symbols.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
At the wireless summit in Portland we discussed a way of
loading firmware asynchronously from ->probe() before
registration to mac80211, in order to register with the
wireless subsystems with complete information in cases
where firmware is required to know parameters.
This is not yet the case in iwlwifi, but for some new
features we're working on it will be the case since
those will only be supported by new firmware images.
Hence, to start with, convert iwlwifi to load firmware
asynchronously from probe, unbinding the device when
firmware loading fails, and only registering with the
wireless subsystems after firmware has been loaded
successfully.
Future patches will hook into this to register the
new firmware capabilities, depending on the firmware
API version.
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>
Increase the buffer size for commands with "huge"
bit set. This has been recently observed for 6050 cards where
for even with huge bit set few commands were not properly allocated
memory with the command overwriting the buffer allocated for it..
Also add a check to see if command size exceeds the
maximum allowable size.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
This reverts commit 1db5950f1d.
The goal of "iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure"
is to first detect when data transmission stalls and then to recover from
this situation with a reset of the radio or the firmware, depending on how
bad the transmission failures are.
Unfortunately we have found that this change causes excessive resets with
its current detection algorithm. It also performs its recovery action when
none is really needed, like when we are not associated.
Revert this change until the issues have been addressed.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Check the frame control for ieee80211_is_data_qos() is true before
counting the number of tfds can be free, the tfds_in_queue only
increment when ieee80211_is_data_qos() is true before transmit; so it
should only decrement if the type match.
Remove ieee80211_is_data_qos check for frame_ctrl in tx_resp to avoid
invalid information pass from uCode.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
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>
When receive reply_tx and ready to decrement the count for number of
tfds in queue, do error checking to prevent error condition and
tfds_in_queue become negative number.
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>
Adding debugfs file to monitor the counters and other
information related to "force_reset" request.
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>
Use different timing duration check for different type of force reset,
force reset request can come from different source and based on
different reason; one type of reset request should not block other type of
reset request.
Adding structure to keep track of different force reset request.
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>
Indicate calibration version to uCode
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Until now it was only possible to have one synchronous command running at
any time. If a synchronous command is in progress when a second request
arrives then the second command will fail. Create a new mutex specific for
this purpose to only allow one synchronous command at a time, but enable
other commands to wait instead of fail if a synchronous command is in
progress.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwl3945 includes iwl-core.h in which these STATUS flags are already
defined. This also removes a potential confusing definition with iwlcore
using STATUS_MODE_PENDING with value 18 and iwl3945 defining (but not
using) STATUS_CONF_PENDING for value 18.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The HT extension channel settings require priv->staging_rxon.channel to be
accurate. However, iwl_set_rxon_ht was being called before iwl_set_rxon_channel
and thus HT40 could be broken unless another call to iwl_mac_config came in.
This problem was recently introduced by "iwlwifi: Fix to set correct ht
configuration"
The particular setting in which I noticed this was monitor mode:
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
./iw wlan0 set channel 64 HT40-
#./iw wlan0 set channel 64 HT40-
tcpdump -i wlan0 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO
would only catch HT40 packets if I issued the IW command twice.
From visual inspection, iwl_set_rxon_channel does not depend on
iwl_set_rxon_ht, so simply swapping them should be safe and fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-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>
Previous patch "use paged Rx" broke AMSDU Rx functionality. If an AP
sends out A-MSDU packets the station will crash. Fix it by linearizing
skbuff for AMSDU packet before handing it to mac80211 since mac80211
doesn't support paged skbuff.
This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Acked-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>
This change monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the expected_
ack_count also drops. At the same time, the aggregated ba_timeout (the number
of ba timeout retries) also rises. If the actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count
ratio is 0 and the number of ba timeout retries rises to 16, no tx packets
(tcp, udp, or ping - icmp) can be delivered. The driver recovers from this
situation by reseting the uCode firmware. If the actual_ack_count/expected_
ack_count ratio drops below 50% (but not 0) and the aggregated ba_timeout
retries just exceed 5 (but not 16), then the driver can reset the radio to
bring the throughput up.
Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
All the queues are awake and ready to use after loading firmware,
for firmware reload case, if any queues was stopped before
reload, mac80211 will wake those queues after restart hardware, so make
sure all the flag used to keep track of the queue status are
reset correctly.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
While testing the station with the NIC 1000 family, it is found that
the plcp error can easily exceed 50 value in 100mSecs. This creates
unneccessary radio reset/tuning. This patch raises the PLCP error
threshold of the NIC 1000 from 50 to 200 error count.
Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To ensure that card is in a sane state during probe we add a reset call.
This change was prompted by users of kdump who was not able to bring up the
wireless driver in the kdump kernel. The problem here was that the primary
kernel, which is not running at the time, left the wireless card up and
running. When the kdump kernel starts it is thus possible to immediately
receive interrupts from firmware after registering interrupt, but without
being ready to deal with interrupts from firmware yet.
Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
There is a problem if an "internal short scan" is in progress when a
mac80211 requested scan arrives. If this new scan request arrives within
the "next_scan_jiffies" period then driver will immediately return success
and complete the scan. The problem here is that the scan has not been
fully initialized at this time (is_internal_short_scan is still set to true
because of the currently running scan), which results in the scan
completion never to be sent to mac80211. At this time also, evan though the
internal short scan is still running the state (is_internal_short_scan)
will be set to false, so when the internal scan does complete then mac80211
will receive a scan completion.
Fix this by checking right away if a scan is in progress when a scan
request arrives from mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Number of calibration op-code are not used by driver, remove those from
iwl-commands.h
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue,
if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead.
Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate,
if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and
sync-up with mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Adding function to force reset radio or reload firmware from debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation.
When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset()
function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help
to bring uCode back to normal operation state.
Currently only 2 type of force reset are available:
- reset radio
- reload firmware
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reset and clear all the tx queues when finished downloading runtime
uCode and ready to go into operation mode.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.
Compile-tested only.
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When running directed active scans we currently end up sending both the SSID
probe requests and an additional broadcast one.
This is due to the fact that we always leave the probe request template SSID IE
length to 0. Instead we should set it to the first SSID to scan, and fill the
direct_scan array with the remaining SSIDs to scan for. This way we only send
what we've been asked to: a broadcast probe request when no directed scan is
requested, and directed probe requests otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Existing iwl6050_ops->iwl6050_hcmd_utils structure had no pointers to chain
noise functions (gain_computation and chain_noise_reset). As it turns out,
by adding chain_noise_scale (see related patch), there is no need for separate
chain noise function, so simply use iwl6000_ops->iwl5000_hcmd_utils, and
remove those for 6050.
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>
6x50 device requires a different scaling factor for Rx gain values sent to
device via PHY_CALIBRATION_CMD (CHAIN_NOISE_GAIN_CMD). Rather than create
a new iwlXXXX_gain_computation() function, add new chain_noise_scale member
to struct iwl_cfg, and keep using iwl5000_gain_computation().
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>
iwl_set_rxon_ht() only get called in iwl_post_associate(); which cause
possible incorrect ht configuration. Adding the call in iwl_mac_config() if
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL flag is set to re-configure and send rxon
command.
Fixes
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146
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>
iwl_power_update_mode expects to be called with mutex held, for example to
protect priv->vif. Only one caller currently does not do this, fix this.
Also, add a comment to iwl_power_update_mode to indicate this requirement.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Due to a typo, the variable contains OFDM
rates as well. The only user doesn't care,
so this change doesn't really do anything
but fix up my confusion.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
auth_work, calibrated_work, update_link_led
and report_work are never used, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
There's no need to queue a work struct from
within a work struct, just move the code to
execute directly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Move the waiting into iwl5000_load_section instead
of duplicating it in the caller.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
mac80211 will only enable powersaving for station mode.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Update sensitivity range values for 1000 series
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Update sensitivity range values for 5x00 series
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Update sensitivity range values for 6000 & 6x50 series
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
The corresponding iwl_mac_remove_interface only
acquires the mutex, leading me to believe that
the spinlock is not necessary. However, this
doesn't actually acquire the mutex around the
vif pointer check and assignment, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Change in uCode to include a unique identifier as part of sysassert,
in order to tell the difference, add the "ADVANCED SYSASSERT" description
when dump nic error to indicate the difference.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
In hostap AP mode, every time the client sends the AP
a packet the STA_NOTIFY_AWAKE code is sent from mac80211.
This results in a command being sent to the uCode even if
the client was not asleep.
The following simple patch has fixed the issue for me without any
degradation that I can find.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.
mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The following commit
commit e4da8c37af
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed Dec 23 13:15:43 2009 +0100
mac80211: make off-channel work generic
triggered a bug in iwlwifi where HT parameters would not be correctly set in
some mac80211 pathways. The aggregation (and possibly other) station flags were
not being set, which limited the size of aggregation blocks and reduced
throughput at high rates.
>From Johannes:
"""
Due to Wey-Yi's patch to use the set-channel command when the channel changes
while associated, we don't get a full new RXON. Therefore, we don't re-set the
rxon-station either. However, under some circumstances that apparently have
gotten more likely mac80211 will first set up the BSS info, then add the
station and then switch to an HT channel type.
Therefore, the check for "priv->current_ht_config.is_ht" in
iwl_rxon_add_station() will hit false and not fill in the HT information.
However, that check can just be removed, which is the easiest fix for all this,
because the HT capa struct is always there, just could possibly have the
ht_supported member set to false.
"""
A sample good link in my 3x3 network improves by approximately 25% TCP
throughput. This fixes Bug 2144
(http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2144).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In iwlagn the support for spectrum measurement command has been
disabled since v2.6.29 without any requests for it. In addition to this
when this command is indeed enabled it has been found to trigger firmware
SYSASSERT on at least 4965 and 5100 hardware (see
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952 ). Since then
this code has been bitrotting and cannot just be enabled without porting.
Remove support for spectrum measurement command from iwlagn. It can be
added back if there is a future need and the firmware problem it triggers
has been fixed. Support for the spectrim measurement notification remains
as it has been enabled all the time.
In addition to this remove the 3945 spectrum measurement command Kconfig
option and make this command always supported. The code added by this
enabling is minimal and only run when user triggers a spectrum measurement
request via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
sparse won't check endianness annotations by
default, but iwlwifi is and should be clean
so we can make sparse check them on it.
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>
sparse correctly warns about symbol not
being static, make static to shut it up.
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>
The debugfs code can be made a whole lot more
efficient by using debugfs_remove_recursive(),
the large chunk of variables can completely go
away and by moving two variables we no longer
need to allocate an extra chunk of memory.
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>
It is better to first notify cfg80211 about the hw
rfkill state (so the rfkill device that will be
registered won't have the wrong state while being
registered), and the power/tt variable init can
(and probably should) also be done first.
Also rename iwl_setup_mac to
iwl_mac_setup_register to better describe what it
really does.
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>
It really hasn't been for a long time, not sure
why this stuck around.
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>
Adding "bt_coex_active" module parameter for iwlcore to enable/disable
BT coexist; if bt_coex_active is true (default), uCode will do kill/defer
every time the priority line is asserted (BT is sending signals on the
priority line in the PCIx). By disable the bt_coex_active, uCode will
ignore the BT activity and perform the normal operation.
Users might experience transmit issue on some platform due to this
WiFi/BT co-exist problem. The possible symptoms are: NetworkManager and
other similar programs can scan and find all the available APs, but will
timeout and unable to associate with any of the APs; no out-going frames
can be found with wireless sniffer tools.
On those platforms, WiFi communication can be restored by set "bt_coex_active"
module parameter to "false"
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>
Give better bit filed define and description for flag parameter
in REPLY_BT_CONFIG command:
flags:
bit 0 - 1: BT channel announcement enabled
0: disable
bit 1 - 1: priority of BT device enabled
0: disable
bit 2 - 1: BT 2 wire support enabled
0: disable
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 function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.
It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The work done when a station is added is very similar whether the station
is added synchronously or asynchronously. Centralize this work. At the same
time increase the status flags being checked for when the command returns
with accompanying debug messages. Also increase checking when setting the
"ucode active" state with accompanying debugging.
This work is done in preparation for station notification support.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
From: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
For 6X50 DC calibration needs to be initialized
else uCode will run an endless loop.
Enbale DC calibration in hw config.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune. There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point. By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.
To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add additional logic for internal scan routine to control how
frequent this function should be performed.
The intent of this function is to reset/re-tune the radio and bring the
RF/PHY back to normal state, it does not make sense calling it too
frequent,
if reset the radio can not bring it back to normal state, it indicate
there are other reason to cause the radio not operate correctly.
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>
This patch allows A band to be scanned when driver is associated to AP.
Scan mechanism is that mac80211/cfg80211 requests driver to scan G band
first and then immediately to scan A band. Original code require
driver to wait for 2 seconds after any scan before another scan will be
performed. This caused driver to service G band scan request from
mac80211/cfg80211 but deny the A band scan request.
Signed-off-by: Henry Zhangh <hongx.c.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adding "radio reset" function to help reset and stabilize the radio.
During normal operation, sometime for unknown reason, radio encounter
problem and can not recover by itself; the best way to
recover from it is to reset and re-tune the radio. Currently, there is
no RF reset command available, but since radio will get reset when
switching channel, use internal hw scan request to force radio
reset and get back to normal operation state.
The internal hw scan will only perform passive scan on the first
available channel (not the channel being used) in associated state. The
request should be ignored if already performing scan operation or STA is
not in associated state.
Also include an "internal_scan" debugfs file to help trigger the
internal scan from user 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>
Add support to configure missed beacon threshold, by default, if receive
"missed beacon" notification from uCode and has more than 5 consecutive
beacon missed, then perform sensitivity calibration; with this change,
allow user to adjust the missed beacon threshold from debugfs in case
more sensitivity calibration required for better performance in noisy
environment
The default value (=5) should be good enough for the normal condition,
but for very noisy environment, more sensitivity calibration could help
improve the throughput, so by setting the missed beacon threshold to
lower number, user might experience better performance result.
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>
There are a few station addresses that are
char *, instead of the normal u8 *; gcc
gives pointer signedness warnings for some
of those, so use u8 * consistently.
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>
Abhijeet Kolekar