This is a very simple scheduler that goes through the wiphys and
schedules one at a time every N milliseconds (current default value:
500 ms). This is enough for initial testing, but there are number of
areas where a more complex scheduler can improve operations greatly.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow mac80211-controlled channel changes on an active wiphy and
especially during a scan. We need this as long as the scan is
controlled by mac80211. Moving this control into the driver could
allow some optimizations on scanning while using multiple virtual
interfaces, but for now, try to work as well as possible with the
current scan mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It looks like channel change may fail in some cases and end up leaving
the hardware in state where it cannot transmit any frames. Add a
workaround to recover from this state if we detect that wiphy
selection is failing due to wiphys not leaving PAUSING state.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For now, allow channel changes immediately and just force the other
virtual wiphys to paused state. This is needed to allow
mac80211-controlled scan to control channel changes.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of always going through initialization/deinitialization steps,
do this only for the first/last wiphy to not break the other wiphys.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_wiphy_select() can be used to select a virtual wiphy to be
activated. Other virtual wiphys will be paused and once that is done,
the operational channel is changed and the wiphys that are on the
selected channel will be unpaused.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow virtual wiphys to be paused/unpaused to allow off-channel
operations. Pause will stop all TX queues for the wiphy and move the
STA into power save mode if in managed mode. Unpause wakes up the TX
queues and notifies the AP that the STA woke up if in managed mode.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The new struct ath_softc::sec_wiphy array is used to store information
about virtual wiphys and select which wiphy is used in calls to
mac80211. Each virtual wiphy will be assigned a different MAC address
based on the virtual wiphy index.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is the initial step in allowing ath9k to register multiple
virtual radios (wiphys). The goal of virtual radios is to allow the
same radio to be shared for multiple virtual interfaces that may
operate on different channels. The mac80211 virtual interface support
is designed only for single channel operation and as such, it is not
suitable for this type of use. Anyway, it can be used on top of the
virtual radio concept, if desired (e.g., use two virtual radios to
handle two channels and then add multiple mac80211 virtual interfaces
on top of each virtual radio).
The new struct ath_wiphy is now registered as the driver data
structure for wiphy. This structure has a pointer to the shared (among
virtual wiphys of the same physical radio) struct ath_softc data. The
primary wiphy maintains the allocated memory for ath_softc. Secondary
(virtual) wiphys will only allocate the new ath_wiphy structure.
Registration of secondary wiphys is added in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of using a hardcoded BSSID mask (mask for own addresses),
iterate through all active interfaces and determine the minimal mask
that covers all local addresses.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace the internal sc_vaps array and index values by using vif
pointer from mac80211. Allow multiple VIPs to be registered. Though,
number of beaconing VIFs is still limited by ATH_BCBUF (currently
1). Multiple virtual STAs support is not yet complete, but at least
the data structures should now be able to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We don't store the beacon timestamp internally, nor
do we do any TIM handling in ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The TSF has to be reset only once, upon bringing
the interface up in AP mode. For any beacon reconfigure calls
after that, resetting the TSF results in incorrect beacon generation.
The only exception is a change in the beacon interval,
which is indicated to the driver by mac80211 through
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_BEACON_INTERVAL, handle this properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes the code easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We never use SC_OP_NO_RESET, it is not configurable at all.
Remove all code that deals with this flag and make beacon
stuck processing simple.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove useless comments, fix indentation.
Also, remove all occurrences of ASSERT(vif) which are not needed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The only use case for this right now is ANI calibration,
but more might come up in the future.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Restore network sleep mode in isr if power save is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The short calibration interval is different for AP
mode, fix this. Also, the timer should be rearmed in
the calibration routine during scanning.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Finally, merge these structures and have a single
HW specific data structure.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A few variables (bssid, bssidmask, curaid) were duplicated in
struct ath_softc and in ath_hal, remove them.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes the useless sc_ prefixes for all variables.
Also, refer to interfaces as VIFs and not as VAPs anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Split the core header files into manageable pieces.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds an ath9k specific entry to read, write and reset the TSF into the debugfs, like in ath5k. This makes debugging the IBSS handling of wifi drivers _much_ easier.
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Now that cfg80211 has its own regulatory infrastructure we can
condense ath9k's regulatory code considerably. We only keep data
we need to provide our own regulatory_hint(), reg_notifier() and
information necessary for calibration.
Atheros hardware supports 12 world regulatory domains, since these
are custom we apply them through the the new wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory().
Although we have 12 we can consolidate these into 5 structures based on
frequency and apply a different set of flags that differentiate them on
a case by case basis through the reg_notifier().
If CRDA is not found our own custom world regulatory domain is applied,
this is identical to cfg80211's except we enable passive scan on most
frequencies.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch implements dynamic power save feature for ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Configure hardware CCMP for management frame protection and use
software crypto when needed.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_iscal_supported() just needs to be aware of your band
and if HT20 is being used so lets abandon our internal channel,
HT appended values and internal mode values and use ieee80211_conf
which already carries this information. This works as calibration
is being done for the currently configured channel.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Lets make the request to get the current noise floor threshold
from the EEPROM band specific as it is band specific, not mode
specific.
This also adds a backpointer on the private channel structure
back to the ieee80211_channel structure as this is now needed during
ath9k_hw_getnf().
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
HW reset calls pass the same variables or structs
which we can obtain easily from ah. Although this also applies
during channel changes as we will keep around the ath9k_channel
passed as an argument for now.
We now also now propagate the hw reset errors down.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch kills ath9k's ath9k_opmode enum by replacing it with nl80211_iftype.
Signed-off-by: Colin McCabe <colin@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHANNEL_CCK flag is set for all 2 Ghz channels, so IS_CHAN_CCK() would
turn out to be true for all channles in that band.
Use IS_CHAN_B() now, which checks the channel mode and not the channel
flags.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace TRUE/FALSE macros with VALID/INVALID macros.
Follow a consistent variable convention.
Remove unnecessary comments.
Add all RC phy macros into a single enum.
Merge functions into reasonably sized entities.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Maintaining two sets of rate tables is redundant, remove one
and use struct ath_rate_table exclusively.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, ath9k builds RFKILL feature only when the RFKILL subsystem
is built part of the kernel. Build RFKILL feature regardless of whether
RFKILL subsystem is built as a MODULE or part of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Split hw.c into more manageable files:
ani.c
calib.c
eeprom.c
mac.c
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
sc_txintrperiod is currently set to 0 and never updated. We won't
be using this, if anything we will consider using TX interrupt
mitigation but that is different and not yet tested. So remove
sc_txintrperiod and the pointless spin_lock_bh() on tx prepare.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This enables Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) on ath9k.
ANI is as algorithm designed to minimize the detrimental
effects of time-varying interferences. This should
help with throughput in noisy environments. To use
ANI we re-enable the MIB interrupt. Since ANI works
on a timer and updates the noise floor we take
advantage of this and also report a non-static noise
floor now to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RF kill support is enabled when CONFIG_RFKILL
is set.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace the internal ath9k implementation of multicast/broadcast frame
power save buffering (AP mode) in ath9k with use of mac80211
ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() mechanism. This removes quite a bit of
duplicated functionality and simplifies the driver part.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't trim the FCS before passing the frame to mac80211,
move TSF_TO_TU to core.h and delete more unused macros.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ah_opmode and sc_opmode are redundant.
This patch removes sc_opmode.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
