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 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 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 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>
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>
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>
Re-align 3945 event log data.
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>
Prefix all symbols with iwl3945_ or iwl4965_ and thus allow building
the driver into the kernel. Also remove all the useless default
statements in Kconfig while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Disable interrupts in the iwl4965 before calling request_irq() for
the case that the previous OS or the BIOS left a pending interrupt in
the chip. This behavior has been observed on some laptops such as T61
Thinkpads and Toshiba Portege R500
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently the iwl3945 & iwl4965 drivers share some common Kconfig
symbols. This split it up into options for the individual drivers
and gets rid of all the CONFIG_IWLWIFI cruft.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The iwl3945 and iwl4965 devices share some common structure, but with a
lot of difference split all over. Currently the two drivers share a lot
of headers and use ugly preprocessor magic to manage the difference.
This patch keeps two entirely separate copies of the headers to get rid
of these hacks an ease future development.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mark more functions/variables static
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces wording 'restricted' with more appropriate 'nic access'
NIC access is grabbed to prevent NIC entering power save mode
General cleanup of iwl-io.h
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch renames restricted_mem suffix with more proper
name targ_mem for function accessing memory on the nic in target mode
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch renames restricted_reg suffix with more proper
name prhp for function accessing registers on the periphery bus.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These pieces of code appear to be useless. The BUG_ON is also performed in
iwl_send_cmd_async.
Serious karma would be needed to enter iwl_ativate_qos with a null priv.
I had a deja vu when patching this, but for the life of me I couldn't track
down a similar patch.
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
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>
Moving code around, lindent, and whatnot created several places where
there appeared to be an 75 column "rule" instead of 80. This patch removes
those that I can spot, hopefully increasing readability.
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
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 remove cck_flag from iwl_driver_hw_info, this flag
is unused after spliting the iwl-base.c
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 renames queue pointers to write_ptr and read_ptr
instead of first_empty and last_used. This is closer to technical
terminology we everyday use
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Correct the spelling of aqcuire.
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixing various spelling errors and typos. Mostly in comments. In total
27 words were corrected, some of which occurred more than ones.
Signed-Of-By: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a NULL pointer dereference that can occur when the
ucode is not loaded at the time __iwl_up is called.
The problem was reported at http://kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2765&msgid=
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves _cancel_deferred_work out of mutex protection and removes
unnecessary mutex in pci_suspend and pci_resume.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch fixes the STATUS_RF_KILL_HW state is not cleared problem if the
device goes to suspend when the rf_kill switch is enabled. The bug causes
the driver always thinks the rf_kill switch is enabled (although it is
disabled) after resume.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix rate control algo reference leak in case if network device has been
failed to register. In this case special flag priv->mac80211_registered is
not set and the rate algo reference is not freeing on module unload. That
leads to OOPs in further ieee80211 rate register/unregister procedure (by
any callee).
It should fix the bug #9470http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9470
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes iwl_mac_add_interface.
1. Currently only one interface is supported, instead of silently retuning
0 now it returns -EOPNOTSUPP (By Johannes Berg)
2. It enables changing mac address from user space (By Ian Schram)
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch fixes association failure (reason = 18) bug by arranging CCK
rates before OFDM rates. This patch will register with mac80211 the
modified rate arrangement with CCK rate first. Change rate scale algorithm
also to deal with rate change. Fix Txpower and rate Table commands to be
constructed correctly after rearrangement.
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>
It makes no sense to enable interrupts if a device has been unplugged.
In addition if in doubt IRQ_HANDLED should be returned.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Prior to this patch, iwlwifi would always use the first
registered rate control algorithm which, depending on system
setup, could be anything. After the mac80211 patch to make
the simple algorithm built-in, it would always be simple.
This has always been a bug in iwlwifi.
This fixes it by requesting that mac80211 selects the right
rate control algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fix the follwing for 3945:
1. Fix direct scan by make sure we set one_direct_scan only when the
mac80211 ask for direct scan.
2. Fix mac_stop and mac_remove_interface calles, we make sure we cancel any
scan and disassoc on these call
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 fixes the following for 3945:
1. Make sure we cancel scan if RXON command is called.
2. Call scan abort on scan watchdog.
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 fixes setting of rates in probe request used in
HW scan. The bug was reported by Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes all double includes of the same file. This
makes scripts/checkincludes.pl happy.
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This "algorithm" is used only internally and is not useful.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-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>
Zhu Yi