On A-MPDU frames, the hardware only reports valid signal strength data for
the last subframe. The driver also mangled rx_stats->rs_rssi using the
ATH_EP_RND macro in a way that may make sense for ANI, but definitely
not for reporting to mac80211.
This patch changes the code to calculate the signal strength from the rssi
directly instead of taking the average value, and flag everything but
the last subframe in an A-MPDU to tell mac80211 to ignore the signal strength
entirely, fixing signal strength fluctuation issues reported by various
users.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Process rx status directly instead of separating the completion test from
the actual rx status processing.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The way this is implemented (simply storing the last value) is absolutely
worthless for debugging anything, and the same information is also available
through the MAC sample feature, so there's no point in keeping this around.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
They're more expensive than some of the other debug options and only used
in very rare situations, so it sometimes makes sense to disable them while
leaving in debugfs support.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cold reset is more reliable for getting the hardware out of some specific
stuck states.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All other Atheros drivers run the AGC gain calibration and DC offset
calibration only after reset. Running them periodically has caused stability
issues on some (primarily AR2315/2413/5413/5414 based) devices, leading to
messages such as:
ath5k phy0: gain calibration timeout (2462MHz)
ath5k phy0: calibration of channel 11 failed
Related bug reports:
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/10574https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795141
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some calibration types interfere with tx activity, but the queue stop does
not prevent that. In fact, some calibration types need tx activity to properly
function, so stopping the queues for them is counterproductive.
In some tests this patch has been shown to improve stability, especially in
AP or ad-hoc mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch allows the possibility of having the mesh point and AP to be operated
simultaneously in one single radio. Previously, mesh point fails to generate the
mesh beacon if virtual AP is created for the same radio.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to
frames that are received via nl80211's various
frame APIs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this does the same thing as the previous code
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
its better to zero initialize the 'valid_phy_rate_idx' array completely
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Not doing so could cause the tx status queue to overflow during longer
periods of time without non-beacon tx. These events are also required
for proper drv_tx_last_beacon handling.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9003 uses a global tx status queue, processing tx status outside of
the regular tx tasklet is dangerous and messes up hardware/software
synchronization of tx status events.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The approach of this change is flawed, as it triggers tx status processing
from more callsites, yet the chips only have one global tx status queue.
Subsequent patches will properly fix the issue that this one tried to address.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
That commit intended for 3.4 renamed IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE as
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER. Meanwhile, "carl9170: fix frame delivery
if sta is in powersave mode" added a reference to
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE in the fixes stream for 3.3. This simple
patch fixes that merge boo-boo.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Previous RX error checking was done exclusive-or for different error
types and caused DFS pulse events to be dropped when other error
flags (e.g. CRC) were set simultaneously.
This patch decouples PHY error processing from other types and ensures
that all pulses detected by HW are accounted by the pattern detector.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nicolas Cavallari discovered that carl9170 has some
serious problems delivering data to sleeping stations.
It turns out that the driver was not honoring two
important flags (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE and
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT) which are set on
frames that should be sent although the receiving
station is still in powersave mode.
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Access Point mode, when transmitting a packet, if the destination
station is in powersave mode, we abort transmitting the packet to the
device queue, but we do not reclaim the allocated memory. Given enough
packets, we can go in a state where there is no packet on the device
queue, but we think the device has no memory left, so no packet gets
transmitted, connections breaks and the AP stops working.
This undo the allocation done in the TX path when the station is in
power-save mode.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cleanup whitespace, fix indentation and coding style.
Also remove debug messages that were flooding the log.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes indentation and the general coding style
in ar9003_mci.c. Also, minimize the amount of debug log
output generated by MCI.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
They are not needed since MCI will be enabled only for
AR9462 v2.0
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Use a separate function to enable/disable
OneStepLookAhead.
* Remove unnecessary hardware SREV checks.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT is now used by both ath9k and ath9k_htc
to enable BT coexistence. Fix Kbuild to allow this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the ability to remove BTCOEX support at compile time,
these checks are no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since BTCOEX code can be compiled out cleanly now,
remove these checks.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_htc can also make use of CONFIG_ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT
to be compiled without BTCOEX support.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make use of CONFIG_ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT in ath9k_hw
to provide a clean way of compilation without BTCOEX
support.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch converts a few functions to static variants
and removes extraneous declarations.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves all the MCI-specific declarations that have been
dumped unceremoniously in hw.h to ar9003_mci.h
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves all the MCI-specific code in the main reset
function to helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Setting up the required scheme can be done as part of the
BTCOEX initialization path and it doesn't belong in
ath9k_hw_fill_cap_info() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch uses CONFIG_ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT to conditionally
compile btcoex-related code in the driver core.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
v1.0 chips are not available in the market.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Change the descriptor length to 24 and explicitly
set the control field 23 to zero. Not doing so would
result in dropping of frames.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The LONG_SHIFT_SELECT offset is different for AR9462 from
the other chip families. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using AR_SREV_* macros for setting up the chip-specific NF
values will make adding support for new chips hard. Use separate
macros for each chip. Currently, AR9462 has the same value for
all NF limits.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
