- 16 Nov, 2010 18 commits
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Bruno Randolf authored
Allow setting of TX and RX antennas configuration via nl80211. The antenna configuration is defined as a bitmap of allowed antennas to use. This API can be used to mask out antennas which are not attached or should not be used for other reasons like regulatory concerns or special setups. Separate bitmaps are used for RX and TX to allow configuring different antennas for receiving and transmitting. Each bitmap is 32 bit long, each bit representing one antenna, starting with antenna 1 at the first bit. If an antenna bit is set, this means the driver is allowed to use this antenna for RX or TX respectively; if the bit is not set the hardware is not allowed to use this antenna. Using bitmaps has the benefit of allowing for a flexible configuration interface which can support many different configurations and which can be used for 802.11n as well as non-802.11n devices. Instead of relying on some hardware specific assumptions, drivers can use this information to know which antennas are actually attached to the system and derive their capabilities based on that. 802.11n devices should enable or disable chains, based on which antennas are present (If all antennas belonging to a particular chain are disabled, the entire chain should be disabled). HT capabilities (like STBC, TX Beamforming, Antenna selection) should be calculated based on the available chains after applying the antenna masks. Should a 802.11n device have diversity antennas attached to one of their chains, diversity can be enabled or disabled based on the antenna information. Non-802.11n drivers can use the antenna masks to select RX and TX antennas and to enable or disable antenna diversity. While covering chainmasks for 802.11n and the standard "legacy" modes "fixed antenna 1", "fixed antenna 2" and "diversity" this API also allows more rare, but useful configurations as follows: 1) Send on antenna 1, receive on antenna 2 (or vice versa). This can be used to have a low gain antenna for TX in order to keep within the regulatory constraints and a high gain antenna for RX in order to receive weaker signals ("speak softly, but listen harder"). This can be useful for building long-shot outdoor links. Another usage of this setup is having a low-noise pre-amplifier on antenna 1 and a power amplifier on the other antenna. This way transmit noise is mostly kept out of the low noise receive channel. (This would be bitmaps: tx 1 rx 2). 2) Another similar setup is: Use RX diversity on both antennas, but always send on antenna 1. Again that would allow us to benefit from a higher gain RX antenna, while staying within the legal limits. (This would be: tx 0 rx 3). 3) And finally there can be special experimental setups in research and development even with pre 802.11n hardware where more than 2 antennas are available. It's good to keep the API simple, yet flexible. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> -- v7: Made bitmasks 32 bit wide and rebased to latest wireless-testing. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Joe Perches authored
Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and eliminates any possible message interleaving from other printk calls. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Joe Perches authored
Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and eliminates any possible message interleaving from other printk calls. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Joe Perches authored
Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and eliminates any possible message interleaving from other printk calls. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jussi Kivilinna authored
BCM4320a devices seem to sometimes do scanning pretty poorly. This can be workaround by issuing new scan every second, while not yet connected. By this new scanning method device catches beacons much faster. Fixes bug #20822. Reported-by: Luís Picciochi <Pitxyoki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jussi Kivilinna authored
BCM4320a devices do not return bss for currently connected AP in bss-list, althought this is required by NDIS specs. Missing bss leads to warning at net/wireless/sme.c:__cfg80211_connect_result(), WARN_ON(!bss). Workaround this by crafting bss manually with information we can read from device. Workaround is only used when device bss-list does not return current bss, and so is only used with BCM4320a devices and not newer BCM4320b ones. Fixes bug #20152. Reported-by: Luís Picciochi <Pitxyoki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Arik Nemtsov authored
The lower driver is notified when the fragmentation threshold changes and upon a reconfig of the interface. If the driver supports hardware TX fragmentation, don't fragment packets in the stack. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Rafał Miłecki authored
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Rafał Miłecki authored
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
This eliminates compiler warnings by doing things how the firmware class expects. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
Introduce a firmware loading state machine to manage the process of loading firmware asynchronously and completing initialization upon success. The state machine attempts to load the preferred firmware image. If that fails, and if an alternative firmware image is available, it will attempt to load that one. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
The AP firmware specifies an API version in the GET_HW_SPEC command response. Currently, the driver only supports AP firmware for the 8366, and only supports API v1. In the future, if higher API version firmwares emerge (possibly for different chips), different ops can be selected based on the reported API version. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
The mwl8k can operate in AP or STA mode, depending on the firmware image that is loaded. By default, STA firmware is loaded. Allow the user to override this default mode at module load time. This saves an unnecessary firmware reload for users only interested in AP mode. Also, the firmware image can be swapped to meet the user's add_interface request. For example, suppose the STA firmware is loaded, no STA interface has been added, and the user adds an AP interface. In this case, the AP firmware will be loaded to meet the request. Based on contributions from Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>, Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>, and Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
This is in preparation for supporting different fw images for different interface types, and for supporting asynchronous firmware loading. Based on a patch from Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com> and Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Nishant Sarmukadam authored
APIv1 AP firmware does not support the RF_TX_POWER command. It supports the similar TX_POWER command. Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Brian Cavagnolo authored
This reverts change 783391c443728febc669e40597193308460e7b4f. The stabilized AP v1 firmware uses the same tx descriptor as the STA firmware. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Deepak Saxena authored
Certain firmware versions, particularly the 8388 found on the XO-1, do not support the EHS_REMOVE_WAKEUP command that is used to disable WOL. Sending this command to the card will return a failure that would get propagated up the stack and cause suspend to fail. Instead, fall back to an all-zero wakeup mask. This fixes http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9967Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> [includes fixups by Paul Fox] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Daniel Drake authored
This hunk added by commit 66fceb69 seems erroneous. We don't want to prevent suspend of the whole system if no wakeup params are set. In the case of the usb8388 we do want to keep the card powered up even if there are no wakeup params. This is because it will continue acting as a mesh node. If the mesh is disabled, it would indeed make more sense to power down the card during suspend, as the equivalent hunk does for the SD interface. But that's a separate task; for now just restore the previous behaviour. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 15 Nov, 2010 22 commits
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Christian Lamparter authored
This patch replaces the handcrafted sign extension cruft with a generic bitop function. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Andreas Herrmann authored
This patch moves code out from wireless drivers where two different functions are defined in three code locations for the same purpose and provides a common function to sign extend a 32-bit value. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Grazvydas Ignotas authored
Make use the newly added method to pass platform data for wl1251 too. This allows to eliminate some redundant code. Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Grazvydas Ignotas authored
Add runtime PM support, similar to how it's done for wl1271. This allows to power down the card when the driver is loaded but network is not in use. Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Grazvydas Ignotas authored
Call interface specific power callback before calling board specific one. Also allow that callback to fail. This is how it's done for wl1271 and will be used for runtime_pm support. Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
For 6000 series devices and up, enable automatic update MAC's register for better power usage in PSP mode Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Shanyu Zhao authored
Disconnected antenna algorithm is used to find out which antennas are disconnected. It should be disabled for devices that support advanced bluetooth coexist. Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Shanyu Zhao authored
Disconnected antenna algorithm is seperated into its own function from chain noise calibration routine for better code management. Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
When the HT information is changed due to BSS changes (like legacy stations joining) we need to recalculate HT RXON parameters. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
During the RXON rewrite, this code got lost. When we've just associated, we need to enable all calibrations and see if some were already finished. Add back the missing code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
The RXON rework resulted in a massive loss of throughput because we weren't programming the device completely correctly -- the BSSID has to be programmed into the device before the AP station is uploaded. To fix this, simply always send the unassoc RXON, i.e. even when it was already unassoc so that the BSSID and some other parameters are updated properly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
Garen noticed that this was wrong. Fix the calibration -- default to multiple chains and fall back to single where possible. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
"mac80211: Fix WMM driver queue configuration" inadvertedly broke iwlwifi, because now mac80211 configures the QoS settings before assoc, and therefore before HT. Thus, iwlwifi no longer told the device about the HT setting, which it needs to -- and thus throughput went down a lot. Fix this by resending the QoS command to the device not only when QoS/WMM settings change, but also when HT changes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Winkler, Tomas authored
In iwl_rx_queue_update_write_ptr function replace iwl_write_direct32 with iwl_write32 when not in power save mode. We don't have to go through grab nic access as the NIC is already awake. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Legacy (4965 and 3945) devices has different tx_cmd_protection routine. Move to iwl-legacy.c Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
There were two type of isr supported by iwlwifi devices. legacy isr - only used by legacy devices (3945 & 4965) ict isr - used by all new generation of iwlwifi devices Move all the isr related functions into ops, the ict type of isr supports only needed for newer devices. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Move iwl_isr_legacy function to iwl_legacy.c since it only used by legacy devices. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
When building 4965 without 5000+ there were a lot of build errors due to functions being used that weren't even compiled in. To fix this move some code around and only compile the HCMD code for 5000+ series as it's not used for 4965. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Update the supported PCI ID list for 100 series devices Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Update the supported PCI ID list for 6000g2a series devices Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Update the supported PCI ID list for 6000g2b series devices Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ben Greear authored
The debugfs code for ath5k was printing some unsigned int stats with %d instead of %u. This meant that you could see negative numbers instead of a clean wrap. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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