This patch gives a heuristic for activation of the A-MPDU Tx.
As the rate scaling is rate aware, it now also measures estimated load, and
sends A-MPDU activation after a threshold has been met.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch alters the current iwlwifi behavior to fit the flows introduced
by the mac80211, mainly queues handling and start/stop call backs flows
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch alters the current API in order to fit the new
API mac80211 gives for A-MPDU Tx
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no association process in IBSS mode - so testing the
association id is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
CC: Richard Scherping <richard@scherping.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch revert commit blow that wrongly suppressed sparse warning in
iwlwifi eeprom reading
In addtion it suppresses correctly the iwlwifi eeprom register reading anomaly.
commit 45883ae47a0a4700c0f4716dc75a255cccdc3a76
misc wireless annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Value of count is used to decide when to replenish rx buffers. If it is
equal or above 8 we replenish the buffers. Ensure there is no starvation
by initializing count to 8 - thus forcing replenish at first iteration.
This is helpful when rx receives batches of buffers smaller than 8.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch prevents sending host commands when rfkill is on
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The geos information is set up during probe and should only
be removed during pci_remove, not during _down.
This is a temporary fix until the setting of the status bits
have been cleaned up (to explicitly match all setting with
clearing of status bits).
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The intention behind the original patch:
"iwlwifi: fix possible read attempt on ucode that is not available"
was to exit before any state is changed. Due to its submission directly
to 2.6.24 it was not clear how this relates to the latest iwlwifi work.
This patch does exactly the same as the previous patch, just earlier to
prevent any state from being changed if there is an error.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch does fix incorrect counting of memory allocated by kmalloc.
It seems that could lead to allocated memory overrun and corrupt
nearlaid memory area.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The problem is that priv->assoc_id is set when assoc. resp frame is
received. But, when it is set, LQ cmd is still not sent to the uCode, it is
done from bg_post_assoc, which is called through a workqueue.
On the other hand, when a tx arrives at the moment when this flag is set,
but LQ is still not sent, the if condition in tx_skb will not hold and
the frame will not be dropped. Thus, it will be sent through
which is still not in the sta table in the uCoded.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The nic controller's scheduler interrupt (CSR_INT_BIT_SCD) indicates
to the driver that scheduler finished to transmit the frame/frames.
This bit is not used and the tasklet should thus not be scheduled upon
its receipt.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Be consistent when using inline functions. If the function only used
once we move it to where it is used - no need for externs.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The geo/channel information is obtained from the EEPROM, which is read
during probe. We can thus set up channel information at this time. This
helps us to support ioctl commands that rely on this before the interface
is brought up.
Clearly matches _init_channel_map with _free_channel_map and _init_geos
with _free_geos to ensure functions calling these routines can also call
their cleanup routines.
Fixes a few bugs:
- if channel information is not available when ioctl commands are
issued then we get a NULL pointer oops. Having channel information
set up during probe we can deal with ioctl commands without requiring
interface to be brought up.
This fixes bug: http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1552
- Fix potential problem if user triggers probe/remove/probe sequence. The
value of priv->channel_count was used to determine if channel map is
set up. This value was never reset when channel map was removed.
- Fix memory leak: priv->modes need to be freed when device removed.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a fix to patch "iwlwifi: fix iwl_mac_add_interface handler".
In that patch the return code was corrected for iwl3945, but not for
iwl4965.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The << and >> operators need space on each side.
Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds iwl_free_fw_desc ucode helper function.
It also moves ucode helper functions to iwl-helpers.h.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After we delay device initialization until interface up, there are more
conditions for the hardware rf_kill switch states during suspend and
resume. For example, before suspend we can have interface up or down,
rf_kill enable or disable; before resume we can have rf_kill enable or
disable. So there are totally 2^3 = 8 conditions to handle. This patch
addressed this problem and makes sure every condition works correctly.
This patch also merges the device suspend and resume handlers with the
mac_start and mac_stop code since they are basically doing the same
thing.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch moves the firmware loading (read firmware from disk and load
it into the device SRAM) from pci_probe time to the first network
interface open time. There are two reasons for doing this:
1. To support kernel buildin iwlwifi drivers. Because kernel initializes
network devices subsystem before hard disk and SATA subsystem, it is
impossible to get the firmware image from hard disk in the PCI probe
handler. Thus delaying the firmware loading into the network
interface open time is the way to go. Note, we only read the firmware
image from hard disk the first time the interface is open. After this
is succeeded, we cache the firmware image into the host memory. This
is a performance gain when user open and close the interface multiple
times and is necessary for device suspend and resume.
2. For better power saving. When the iwlwifi modules are loaded (or
buildin the kernel) but the wireless network interface is not being
used, it is a good practice the wireless device consumes as less
power as possible. Unloading the firmware from the wireless device
and unregister the driver's interrupt handler in the network
interface close handler provides users a way to achieve this. User
space network configuration tools (i.e NetworkManager) can also
contribute here when it detects a wired cable is connected and
close the wireless interface automatically.
This patch also includes the pci_save/restore_state() fixed by Ian Schram
upon the first version.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes iwl4965_tx_cmd function and splits its content to
iwl4965_hw_build_tx_cmd_rate, iwl4965_build_tx_cmd_basic,
and iwl4965_tl_get_stats function. The latest one will be deprecated
when traffic load will move to rate scale module.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch (based on Ron Rindjunsky's) creates a framework for
a unified way to pass BSS configuration to drivers that require
the information, e.g. for implementing power save mode.
This patch introduces new ieee80211_bss_conf structure that is
passed to the driver via the new bss_info_changed() callback
when the BSS configuration changes.
This new BSS configuration infrastructure adds the following
new features:
* drivers are notified of their association AID
* drivers are notified of association status
and replaces the erp_ie_changed() callback. The patch also does
the relevant driver updates for the latter change.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enables the A-MPDU Rx flow. it contains several
adjustments to new mac80211 A-MPDU Rx flow.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.
This has two advantages:
* removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
for working with network namespaces and performance
* allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
having to allocate own lists/hash tables
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch skips mac80211 configuration setting during a hardware scan
and replays it afterwards for the iwlwifi drivers.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch changes the iwlwifi driver to properly support
monitor interfaces after the filter flags change.
The patch is originally created by Johannes Berg for iwl4965. I fixed some
of the comments and created a similar patch for iwl3945.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch add comments that escaped from the previous merge
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes compilation warnings introduced by 'fix ucode assertion
for RX queue overrun' patch
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch give the iwlwifi the ability to support A-MSDU up to 8K
Please notice - in order to work in 8K A-MSDU ucode support is needed,
version 4.44.1.19 (soon to be published). 4K A-MSDU works in current ucode
version as well.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch conforms the addition of a new station to the iwlwifi station
table according to the new mac80211's HT framework
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch conforms HW configuration changes according to new mac80211's
HT framework
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch conforms the probe request's HT IE with the
new structures used in iwlwifi HT.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fills the mac80211's ieee80211_hw_mode structures with the
needed 802.11n data needed for the new framework
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes unnecessary or duplicate 802.11n data from structures
in the code, and prepares them for new mac80211's 802.11n framework
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch caches mac80211 configuration setting during a hardware
scan for the iwlwifi drivers.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixed a ucode timeout issue and worked code with suspend
to disk.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch allows the driver to restock the RX queue early if the RX
queue is almost empty. This will help on avoiding any ucode assert
for the RX overrun problem.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enhanced WPA authenication stability by avoiding scan
immediately followed by association. We don't do any scanning right
after association in next several seconds. This will allow WPA
authentication to take place without any interruption.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Document 4965 Tx scheduler
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add comments to iwlXXXX-base.c
Signed-off-by: Cahill, Ben M <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add comments, mostly on Tx queues
Signed-off-by: Cahill, Ben M <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clean up and clarify some comments after 3945/4965 split.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add comments to rate scaling code.
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- Remove HT code from iwl-3945.h - it is not needed here as 3945
does not support HT. The code ended up here during the header file
split.
- Modify a few places where the CONFIG variables were named
incorrectly: all changes are to comments only.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enables loading fw w/o init and bsm section. It also provides
general cleanup of the rutine.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Problem identified by Miguel Botón <mboton.lkml@gmail.com>, alternate
solution suggested by Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>, patch by me. :-)
Cc: Miguel Botón <mboton.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch fixes a bug that enables RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK erroneously
for A mode in the erp_ie_changed mac80211 callback.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ron Rindjunsky