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Senthil Balasubramanian e5f0921a95 ath9k: race condition in SCANNING state check during ANI calibration
ANI calibration shouldn't be done when we are not on our home channel.
This is already verified. However, it is racy. Fix this by proper
spin locks.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 15:02:24 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan c3d8f02ed9 ath9k: Remove unnecessary count for addba attempt
mac80211 already has one to keep track of number of failure
addba attempts.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 14:57:39 -04:00
Gabor Juhos 7fe96a1648 ath9k: prevent sleeping while we are waiting for CAB
We have to remain awake if the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_CAB flag is set.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-15 15:05:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg 3b319aae42 ath9k: port to cfg80211 rfkill
This ports the ath9k rfkill code to the new API offered by
cfg80211 and thus removes a lot of useless stuff.

("With this series a kernel panic, which is a regression, during module
unload disappears." -- Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>

Other patches in the series:

  ath9k: Add helper to get ath9k specific current channel
  ath9k: Make sure we have current channel in ah_curchan before rf
    disable/enable

-- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-15 15:05:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg 19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Jouni Malinen ccdfeab653 ath9k: Update Beacon timers based on timestamp from the AP
Some APs seem to drift away from the expected TBTT (timestamp %
beacon_int_in_usec differs quite a bit from zero) which can result in
us waking up way too early to receive a Beacon frame. In order to work
around this, re-configure the Beacon timers after having received a
Beacon frame from the AP (i.e., when we know the offset between the
expected TBTT and the actual time the AP is sending out the Beacon
frame).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22 14:06:01 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 9a23f9ca50 ath9k: Wake up for TX in mac80211 timeout=0 sleep mode
When using timeout=0 (PS-Poll) with mac80211, the driver will need to
wake up for TX requests and remain awake until the TX has been
completed (ACK received or timeout) or until the buffer frame(s) have
been received (in case the TX is for a PS-Poll frame).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:32 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 6b96f93e96 ath9k: cleanup beacon parameters configuration
This patch configures the beacon timers with beacon interval
and beacon period passed through vif.bss_conf. Also cache the
currecnt beacon configuration which will be used to configure
the beacon timers when the driver triggers it after reset.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:26 -04:00
Jouni Malinen cc65965cbb ath9k: Fix PS mode operation to receive buffered broadcast/multicast frames
The previous implementation was moving back to NETWORK SLEEP state
immediately after receiving a Beacon frame. This means that we are
unlikely to receive all the buffered broadcast/multicast frames that
would be sent after DTIM Beacon frames. Fix this by parsing the Beacon
frame and remaining awake, if needed, to receive the buffered
broadcast/multicast frames. The last buffered frame will trigger the
move back into NETWORK SLEEP state.

If the last broadcast/multicast frame is not received properly (or if
the AP fails to send it), the next Beacon frame will work as a backup
trigger for returning into NETWORK SLEEP.

A new debug type, PS (debug=0x800 module parameter), is added to make
it easier to debug potential power save issues in the
future. Currently, this is only used for the Beacon frame and buffered
broadcast/multicast receiving.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:24 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4f0fc7c39f ath9k: make private driver rate tables const
On x86 this allows us to do the following small savings:
shave off 23 % off of the module's data, and
shave off 6  % off of the module's text.

We save 456 bytes, for those counting.

$ size ath9k.ko
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 250794    3628    1600  256022   3e816 ath9k.ko
$ size ath9k-old.ko
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 239114   15308    1600  256022   3e816 ath9k-old.ko

$ du -b ath9k.ko
4034244 ath9k.ko
$ du -b ath9k-old.ko
4033788 ath9k-old.ko

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:15:05 -04:00
Gabor Juhos fb4a3d35a2 ath9k: uninline ath9k_io{read,write}32 routines
The spin_lock handling uses lots of instructions on some archs.
With this patch the size of the ath9k module will be significantly
smaller.

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:52 -04:00
Johannes Berg 57c4d7b4c4 mac80211: clean up beacon interval settings
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
an AP.

This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.

NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
      to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
      drivers, some are updated in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:33 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 203c4805e9 atheros: put atheros wireless drivers into ath/
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:54:38 -04:00
Renamed from drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h (Browse further)