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Colin McCabe d97809dbbf ath9k: Replace ath9k_opmode with nl80211_iftype
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>
2008-12-05 09:35:47 -05:00
Sujith 2a163c6de4 ath9k: Add a debugfs file for dumping DMA status
Debugfs file location: ath9k/<wiphy>/dma
Contains values in DMA debug registers.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:09 -05:00
Sujith 826d268091 ath9k: Add initial layout for an ath9k specific debugfs mechanism
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:09 -05:00
Sujith 88b126af94 ath9k: Add ATH9K_DEBUG configuration option
Make debugging configurable, and add a module parameter
to give the debug mask.
Add debug.c to hold all debug specific code.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:08 -05:00
Sujith 04bd463809 ath9k: Use cleaner debug masks
Remove all the useless __func__ prefixes in debug messages,
and replace the DPRINTF macro with a function.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:08 -05:00
Sujith e11602b781 ath9k: Handle channel initialization for AP mode
Hostapd now passes the HT parameters through the config()
callback, use these to set the appropriate channel in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:32:59 -05:00
Sujith 99405f930f ath9k: Use proper TX channel width for setting channels
The TX channel width of the BSS can be obtained only after association.
In all cases, default to HT20 if HT is enabled, and set
chan width to HT40 only if the BSS supports it.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:49 -05:00
Sujith ff37e337be ath9k: Code scrub
Merge core.c and base.c
Remove Antenna Diversity (unused now).
Remove unused chainmask handling code.
Comment, indentation scrub.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:49 -05:00
Sujith c428839008 ath9k: Move TX completion routine to xmit.c
Also, use a helper function to setup RC status data
when processing completed TX descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:32 -05:00
Sujith 46d14a58ff ath9k: General code scrub
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>
2008-11-26 09:47:31 -05:00
Sujith e63835b0f4 ath9k: Remove ath9k_rate_table
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>
2008-11-26 09:47:30 -05:00
Sujith a8efee4f47 ath9k: Use rate_driver_data
Remove the hack using vif, and use rate_driver_data within
skb->cb to hold driver specific rate information.
Setup the rate series in the skb's tx control area and remove
all references to ath9k specific rate series ( using struct ath_rc_series ).

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:29 -05:00
Sujith fe7f4a7745 ath9k: Remove ath_rate_softc
Move the hw rate tables to ath_softc, and access them directly.
tx_triglevel_max is global, move it to ath_rate_node.
Now that ath_rate_softc is gone, rate control attach becomes simpler.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:28 -05:00
Sujith 5ddfac3b55 ath9k: Remove rate control reference in VAP
Rate control init is now confined to itself, using the
HT capabilites of the STA from rate_init().

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:27 -05:00
Sujith be0418ada3 ath9k: Revamp RX handling
Remove a lot of old, crufty code and make
RX status reporting a bit sane and clean.

Do not do anything to the RX skb before unmapping.
So in ath_rx_tasklet(), move the skb_put() after PCI unmap.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:26 -05:00
Sujith 2b406f1e68 ath9k: Nuke fixed rate handling in driver
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:25 -05:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 3fcdfb4b94 ath9k: Fix panic while unregistering rfkill
[ 6133.670329] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
 [ 6133.672802] IP: [<ffffffffa030fcf6>] ieee80211_stop_queues+0x26/0x40 [mac80211]
 [ 6133.672802] PGD 759dc067 PUD 74f1d067 PMD 0
 [ 6133.672802] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 [ 6133.672802] last sysfs file: /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
 [ 6133.672802] CPU 0
 [ 6133.672802] Modules linked in: ath9k(-) mac80211 pciehp pci_hotplug arc4 ecb joydev pcmcia ppdev lp ppp_generic psmouse sg pcspkr s]
 [ 6133.735830] Pid: 4445, comm: rmmod Tainted: G        W  2.6.28-rc5-wl #1
 [ 6133.735830] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa030fcf6>]  [<ffffffffa030fcf6>] ieee80211_stop_queues+0x26/0x40 [mac80211]
 [ 6133.735830] RSP: 0018:ffff88007d1efd10  EFLAGS: 00010246
 [ 6133.735830] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880074f41aa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880074f40340
 [ 6133.735830] RBP: ffff880074990000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000224d
 [ 6133.735830] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8031dc70 R12: 0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff880074f46c9c R15: 0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830] FS:  00007f1e2e0bc6f0(0000) GS:ffffffff805e0b80(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 [ 6133.735830] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000075593000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 [ 6133.735830] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 [ 6133.735830] Process rmmod (pid: 4445, threadinfo ffff88007d1ee000, task ffff88007c0c8000)
 [ 6133.735830] Stack:
 [ 6133.735830]  ffffffffa034d583 ffff88007c7d9410 ffff88007c7d9410 ffff88007c7d9410
 [ 6133.735830]  ffffffff80481dab ffff880074f41aa0 00000000fffffff0 0000000000000000
 [ 6133.735830]  0000000000000001 0000000000000001 ffffffffa034d8a5 ffff88007c7d9400
 [ 6133.735830] Call Trace:
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa034d583>] ? ath_radio_disable+0x33/0x150 [ath9k]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff80481dab>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x20b/0x2a0
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa034d8a5>] ? ath_sw_toggle_radio+0x65/0xa0 [ath9k]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa019d1f4>] ? rfkill_toggle_radio+0x74/0x140 [rfkill]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa019d597>] ? rfkill_remove_switch+0x67/0x80 [rfkill]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa019d955>] ? rfkill_unregister+0x25/0x50 [rfkill]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa034bf75>] ? ath_detach+0xf5/0x140 [ath9k]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa034bfe9>] ? ath_pci_remove+0x29/0x80 [ath9k]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff8035263c>] ? pci_device_remove+0x2c/0x60
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff803c3829>] ? __device_release_driver+0x99/0x100
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff803c3950>] ? driver_detach+0xc0/0xd0
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff803c296e>] ? bus_remove_driver+0x8e/0xd0
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff80352916>] ? pci_unregister_driver+0x36/0xa0
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffffa0356ad4>] ? exit_ath_pci+0x10/0x29 [ath9k]
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff8026bb1b>] ? sys_delete_module+0x1cb/0x2d0
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff802960d9>] ? do_munmap+0x349/0x390
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff80342d01>] ? __up_write+0x21/0x150
 [ 6133.735830]  [<ffffffff8020c45b>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 [ 6133.735830] Code: c3 0f 1f 40 00 0f b7 57 5e 0f b7 47 5c 01 c2 74 30 31 c9 66 90 48 8b 57 78 0f b7 c1 48 c1 e0 07 48 03 82 00 03 00
 [ 6133.735830] RIP  [<ffffffffa030fcf6>] ieee80211_stop_queues+0x26/0x40 [mac80211]

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:21 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 97b777db57 ath9k: make DMA memory consistent
Make the DMAable mameory consistent with pci_set_consistent_dma_mask().
The DMA-mapping.txt Documentation recommends this but for PCI-X
considerations and on strange architecture like SGI SN2, not sure
why it would fix an issue but lets see if it does, just in case.

Before this, this driver was tested with x86_64 with about
7 GB of RAM, not sure if this is really needed.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:35 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 1d450cfc97 ath9k: Clarify we only want 32-bit DMA
Use DMA_32BIT_MASK to clarify we only want 32-bit DMA
memory. What was there before is also 32-bit but this makes it
clearer

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:35 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian db93e7b5bf ath9k: Race condition in accessing TX and RX buffers.
Race condition causes RX buffers to be accessed even before it is
initialized. The RX and TX buffers are initialized immediately after
the hardware is registered with mac80211. The mac80211 start callback
is ready to be fired once the device is registered for a case when the
wpa_supplicant is also running at the same time.

The same race condition is also possible for RKFILL registration
as RFKILL init happens after the device registration with mac80211
and it is possible that rfkill_register would be called even before
it is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:31 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 306efdd109 ath9k: IRQ should be disabled before calling free_irq()
ath9k frees irq even before IRQs are disabled and existing IRQs
are flushed when rfkill_register() fails.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:30 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian e97275cb06 ath9k: Build RFKILL feature even when RFKILL subsystem is a MODULE
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>
2008-11-25 16:41:30 -05:00
Benoit PAPILLAULT 392dff836f ath9k : Display MAC/BB and RF version at startup (v2)
This patch decodes the MAC/BB version (for instance: AR5416) and the RF
part version (for instance: AR5133). It has been tested on AR5416/AR5133
which is a 2.4/5GHz 11n device. It also makes the differences between
AR5416 (PCI) and AR5418 (PCI Express). Both are named AR5416 in
the register definitions.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:06 -05:00
Sujith 9757d55652 ath9k: Fix compilation failure when RFKILL is enabled
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-11 13:06:14 -05:00
Sujith 8469cdef1f mac80211: Add a new event in ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action
Send a notification to the driver on succesful
reception of an ADDBA response, add IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_RESUME
for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:32 -05:00
Sujith dca3edb88e ath9k: Remove internal RX A-MPDU processing
mac80211 has RX A-MPDU reordering support.
Use that and remove redundant RX processing within the driver.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:32 -05:00
Sujith 7f959032bb ath9k: Clear HT info on starting the driver
Doing an interface down/up leaves the old HT assoc
information, clear it.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:32 -05:00
Sujith 05a1e2d111 ath9k: Enable interrupts at the proper place
config_interface() was the wrong place to enable interrupts
when bringing up an interface, move it to ath_open().

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:16:06 -05:00
Sujith 154662a635 ath9k: Remove unnecessary TSF reset
The TSF is already reset properly via mac80211's callback.
Resetting it in config_interface() is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:16:06 -05:00
Sujith 9c84b7978f ath9k: Streamline attach/detach
Simplify attach and detach routines by consolidating
the stop and suspend functions.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:16:06 -05:00
Sujith 5640b08ef7 ath9k: Revamp VAP management
Remove the internal VAP management routines
and embed ath_vap in mac80211's driver private area
provided in ieee80211_vif.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:14:57 -05:00
Sujith 102e0572d3 ath9k: Ensure ath_node is not NULL when updating tx chainmask
Also, random indentation and whitespace cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:14:56 -05:00
Sujith 528f0c6b3b ath9k: Revamp transmit control block
Use the ath_buf instance associated with each tx frame
directly and remove all redundant information in ath_tx_control.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:14:56 -05:00
Sujith b5aa9bf946 ath9k: Node cleanup
Start removing the internal node list in ath9k, in preparation
for using mac80211's STA list.
Remove lists, locks, routines, flags, functions managing nodes in ath9k.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:14:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg e5704bf0ba ath9k: remove useless NULL initialisers
When I added .set_frag_threshold I didn't realise it was already
there which now generated a sparse warning. Therefore, remove
the .set_frag_threshold NULL initialiser, and while at it all the
other useless ones.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:10:17 -05:00
Sujith 8b30b1fe36 mac80211: Re-enable aggregation
Wireless HW without any dedicated queues for aggregation
do not need the ampdu_queues mechanism present right now
in mac80211. Since mac80211 is still incomplete wrt TX MQ
changes, do not allow aggregation sessions for drivers that
set ampdu_queues.

This is only an interim hack until Intel fixes the requeue issue.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:02:14 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 5c020dc6a0 ath9k: Allow user to change tx power when asked
We were also changing tx power even when we were not asked to,
this enforces the change only when we are asked nicely. When
not asked we simply try to use the max power, we don't tx power
at all for rate control.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:54 -04:00
Johannes Berg e6a9854b05 mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:23 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez c49d154a80 ath9k: correct signal quality report
This adjusts ath9k's signal quality reporting taking into
consideration received beacons at an RSSI of 45 should indicate
you can use of MCS 15 rate (144 Mbps) reliably on dual stream card.
Keep in mind mac80211 does not yet have aggregation fixed but this
should still provide more accurate results.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg ae5eb02641 mac80211: rewrite HT handling
The HT handling has the following deficiencies, which I've
(partially) fixed:
 * it always uses the AP info even if there is no AP,
   hence has no chance of working as an AP
 * it pretends to be HW config, but really is per-BSS
 * channel sanity checking is left to the drivers
 * it generally lets the driver control too much

HT enabling is still wrong with this patch if you have more than
one virtual STA mode interface, but that never happens currently.
Once WDS, IBSS or AP/VLAN gets HT capabilities, it will also be
wrong, see the comment in ieee80211_enable_ht().

Additionally, this fixes a number of bugs:
 * mac80211: ieee80211_set_disassoc doesn't notify the driver any
             more since the refactoring
 * iwl-agn-rs: always uses the HT capabilities from the wrong stuff
               mac80211 gives it rather than the actual peer STA
 * ath9k: a number of bugs resulting from the broken HT API

I'm not entirely happy with putting the HT capabilities into
struct ieee80211_sta as restricted to our own HT TX capabilities,
but I see no cleaner solution for now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9124b07740 mac80211: make retry limits part of hw config
Instead of having a separate callback, use the HW config callback
with a new flag to change retry limits.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg e8975581f6 mac80211: introduce hw config change flags
This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration
actually changed, e.g. channel etc.

No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are
expected to act on this if they want to.

Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often
we configure something else.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg d9fe60dea7 802.11: clean up/fix HT support
This patch cleans up a number of things:
 * the unusable definition of the HT capabilities/HT information
   information elements
 * variable names that are hard to understand
 * mac80211: move ieee80211_handle_ht to ht.c and remove the unused
             enable_ht parameter
 * mac80211: fix bug with MCS rate 32 in ieee80211_handle_ht
 * mac80211: fix bug with casting the result of ieee80211_bss_get_ie
             to an information element _contents_ rather than the
             whole element, add size checking (another out-of-bounds
             access bug fixed!)
 * mac80211: remove some unused return values in favour of BUG_ON
             checking
 * a few minor other things

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:06 -04:00
Johannes Berg e174961ca1 net: convert print_mac to %pM
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.

I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
Johannes Berg 4233df6b74 ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace
As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by
not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue.
The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver
operation to userspace.

That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm
it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw
fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14 21:12:37 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 6f255425ac ath9k: enable ANI to help with noisy environments
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>
2008-10-06 18:14:56 -04:00
David S. Miller b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 6115e8557a ath9k: Fix IRQ nobody cared issue with ath9k
IRQs should be disabled before calling free_irq. Also flush pending
IRQs. Pasted the kernel log message for reference.

kernel: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
kernel:  [<c0252d2c>] __report_bad_irq+0x2e/0x6f
kernel:  [<c0252f22>] note_interrupt+0x1b5/0x207
kernel:  [<c025258b>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x21/0x48
kernel:  [<c02534cb>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x8e/0xad
kernel:  [<c0205650>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0x84
kernel:  [<c020425f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
kernel:  [<c034f6f6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x198/0x205
kernel:  [<c044686c>] ? menu_select+0x5c/0x78
kernel:  [<c0445a95>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x59/0x89
kernel:  [<c02029d7>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xcf
kernel:  [<c0543102>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50
kernel:  =======================
kernel: handlers:
kernel: [<f88fdd26>] (ath_isr+0x0/0x13a [ath9k])
kernel: Disabling IRQ #17

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-22 17:22:15 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian d0be7cc768 ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group rekeying is done
Connectivtiy is lost after Group rekeying is done. The keytype
maintained by ath9k is reset when group key is updated. Though
sc_keytype can be reset only for broadcast key the proper fix
would be to use mac80211 provided key type from txinfo during
xmit and get rid of sc_keytype from ath9k ath_softc.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-22 16:52:50 -04:00
Johannes Berg 17741cdc26 mac80211: share STA information with driver
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00