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Wey-Yi Guy
528c3126a9 iwlwifi: add debugfs to monitor force reset parameters
Adding debugfs file to monitor the counters and other
information related to "force_reset" request.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:50 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
8a472da431 iwlwifi: separated time check for different type of force reset
Use different timing duration check for different type of force reset,
force reset request can come from different source and based on
different reason; one type of reset request should not block other type of
reset request.

Adding structure to keep track of different force reset request.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:50 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
d5755939e8 iwlwifi: indicate calib version for 6050 series
Indicate calibration version to uCode

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
d2dfe6df75 iwlwifi: enable serialization of synchronous commands
Until now it was only possible to have one synchronous command running at
any time. If a synchronous command is in progress when a second request
arrives then the second command will fail. Create a new mutex specific for
this purpose to only allow one synchronous command at a time, but enable
other commands to wait instead of fail if a synchronous command is in
progress.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
4a6547c748 iwl3945: remove STATUS macros from header
iwl3945 includes iwl-core.h in which these STATUS flags are already
defined. This also removes a potential confusing definition with iwlcore
using STATUS_MODE_PENDING with value 18 and iwl3945 defining (but not
using) STATUS_CONF_PENDING for value 18.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
1db5950f1d iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure
This change monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the expected_
ack_count also drops.  At the same time, the aggregated ba_timeout (the number
of ba timeout retries) also rises.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count
ratio is 0 and the number of ba timeout retries rises to 16, no tx packets
(tcp, udp, or ping - icmp) can be delivered.  The driver recovers from this
situation by reseting the uCode firmware.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_
ack_count ratio drops below 50% (but not 0) and the aggregated ba_timeout
retries just exceed 5 (but not 16), then the driver can reset the radio to
bring the throughput up.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:41 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a9e10fb9b1 iwlwifi: clear all the stop_queue flag after load firmware
All the queues are awake and ready to use after loading firmware,
for firmware reload case, if any queues was stopped before
reload, mac80211 will wake those queues after restart hardware, so make
sure all the flag used to keep track of the queue status are
reset correctly.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:30 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
f36d04abe6 iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:18 -08:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
6c3872e1d5 iwlwifi: Adjusting PLCP error threshold for 1000 NIC
While testing the station with the NIC 1000 family, it is found that
the plcp error can easily exceed 50 value in 100mSecs.  This creates
unneccessary radio reset/tuning.  This patch raises the PLCP error
threshold of the NIC 1000 from 50 to 200 error count.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:05 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
4843b5a731 iwlwifi: reset card during probe
To ensure that card is in a sane state during probe we add a reset call.
This change was prompted by users of kdump who was not able to bring up the
wireless driver in the kdump kernel. The problem here was that the primary
kernel, which is not running at the time, left the wireless card up and
running. When the kdump kernel starts it is thus possible to immediately
receive interrupts from firmware after registering interrupt, but without
being ready to deal with interrupts from firmware yet.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:55 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
bbcbb9ef97 iwlwifi: fix scan race
There is a problem if an "internal short scan" is in progress when a
mac80211 requested scan arrives. If this new scan request arrives within
the "next_scan_jiffies" period then driver will immediately return success
and complete the scan. The problem here is that the scan has not been
fully initialized at this time (is_internal_short_scan is still set to true
because of the currently running scan), which results in the scan
completion never to be sent to mac80211. At this time also, evan though the
internal short scan is still running the state (is_internal_short_scan)
will be set to false, so when the internal scan does complete then mac80211
will receive a scan completion.

Fix this by checking right away if a scan is in progress when a scan
request arrives from mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:40 -08:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
7bfedc59ee iwlwifi: cleanup return values
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:31 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a24dd27c47 iwlwifi: remove unused op-code in PHY Calibration command
Number of calibration op-code are not used by driver, remove those from
iwl-commands.h

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:21 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
45d427001b iwlwifi: check for aggregation frame and queue
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue,
if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead.
Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate,
if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and
sync-up with mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:10 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
04cafd7fa7 iwlwifi: add debug function to reset/reload radio/firmware
Adding function to force reset radio or reload firmware from debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:25:55 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a93e7973d0 iwlwifi: multiple force reset mode
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation.
When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset()
function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help
to bring uCode back to normal operation state.

Currently only 2 type of force reset are available:
 - reset radio
 - reload firmware

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:24:12 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
dff010ac8e iwlwifi: clear all tx queues when firmware ready
Reset and clear all the tx queues when finished downloading runtime
uCode and ready to go into operation mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:22:45 -08:00
Kalle Valo
1296d47445 iwlwifi: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Samuel Ortiz
21b2d8bd2f iwlwifi: Send broadcast probe request only when asked to
When running directed active scans we currently end up sending both the SSID
probe requests and an additional broadcast one.
This is due to the fact that we always leave the probe request template SSID IE
length to 0. Instead we should set it to the first SSID to scan, and fill the
direct_scan array with the remaining SSIDs to scan for. This way we only send
what we've been asked to: a broadcast probe request when no directed scan is
requested, and directed probe requests otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Ben Cahill
ed56a3f15a iwlwifi: Add chain_noise support for 6050
Existing iwl6050_ops->iwl6050_hcmd_utils structure had no pointers to chain
noise functions (gain_computation and chain_noise_reset).  As it turns out,
by adding chain_noise_scale (see related patch), there is no need for separate
chain noise function, so simply use iwl6000_ops->iwl5000_hcmd_utils, and
remove those for 6050.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Ben Cahill
d4fe5ac9e0 iwlwifi: Add chain noise scaling factor
6x50 device requires a different scaling factor for Rx gain values sent to
device via PHY_CALIBRATION_CMD (CHAIN_NOISE_GAIN_CMD).  Rather than create
a new iwlXXXX_gain_computation() function, add new chain_noise_scale member
to struct iwl_cfg, and keep using iwl5000_gain_computation().

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
John W. Linville
6e7e6213e4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-02-08 16:38:38 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
098dfded5b iwlwifi: Fix to set correct ht configuration
iwl_set_rxon_ht() only get called in iwl_post_associate(); which cause
possible incorrect ht configuration. Adding the call in iwl_mac_config() if
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL flag is set to re-configure and send rxon
command.

Fixes
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:07:22 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
d3a571971e iwlwifi: iwl_power_update_mode always hold mutex
iwl_power_update_mode expects to be called with mutex held, for example to
protect priv->vif. Only one caller currently does not do this, fix this.
Also, add a comment to iwl_power_update_mode to indicate this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:59 -08:00
Johannes Berg
7ae810776a iwlwifi: fix typo in IWL_CCK_RATES_MASK
Due to a typo, the variable contains OFDM
rates as well. The only user doesn't care,
so this change doesn't really do anything
but fix up my confusion.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:58 -08:00
Johannes Berg
71d75cf9ab iwlwifi: remove unused work structs
auth_work, calibrated_work, update_link_led
and report_work are never used, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:57 -08:00
Johannes Berg
80676518da iwlwifi: remove bg_up work
There's no need to queue a work struct from
within a work struct, just move the code to
execute directly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:57 -08:00
Johannes Berg
9f1f3ceacb iwlagn: simplify ucode loading
Move the waiting into iwl5000_load_section instead
of duplicating it in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:36 -08:00
Johannes Berg
4d6959219b iwlwifi: no need to test iw_mode in power saving
mac80211 will only enable powersaving for station mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:36 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
fac0610870 iwlwifi: update sensitivity calibration data for 1000 series
Update sensitivity range values for 1000 series

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:35 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
9bead7632a iwlwifi: update sensitivity calibration data for 5x00 series
Update sensitivity range values for 5x00 series

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:35 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
2494f63cc7 iwlwifi: update sensitivity calibration data for 6x00 series
Update sensitivity range values for 6000 & 6x50 series

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:34 -08:00
Johannes Berg
47e28f41dc iwlwifi: fix locking in iwl_mac_add_interface
The corresponding iwl_mac_remove_interface only
acquires the mutex, leading me to believe that
the spinlock is not necessary. However, this
doesn't actually acquire the mutex around the
vif pointer check and assignment, fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:34 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a7fce6ee8d iwlwifi: sysassert identifier change
Change in uCode to include a unique identifier as part of sysassert,
in order to tell the difference, add the "ADVANCED SYSASSERT" description
when dump nic error to indicate the difference.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:33 -08:00
Daniel Halperin
49dcc819b0 iwlwifi: optimize power saving
In hostap AP mode, every time the client sends the AP
a packet the STA_NOTIFY_AWAKE code is sent from mac80211.
This results in a command being sent to the uCode even if
the client was not asleep.

The following simple patch has fixed the issue for me without any
degradation that I can find.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:19 -08:00
Johannes Berg
56007a028c mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave
Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.

mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26 11:53:21 -05:00
Daniel Halperin
ff27fabe62 iwlwifi: fix throughput degradation in aggregation mode
The following commit

	commit e4da8c37af
	Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
	Date:   Wed Dec 23 13:15:43 2009 +0100

	   mac80211: make off-channel work generic

triggered a bug in iwlwifi where HT parameters would not be correctly set in
some mac80211 pathways. The aggregation (and possibly other) station flags were
not being set, which limited the size of aggregation blocks and reduced
throughput at high rates.

>From Johannes:
"""
Due to Wey-Yi's patch to use the set-channel command when the channel changes
while associated, we don't get a full new RXON. Therefore, we don't re-set the
rxon-station either. However, under some circumstances that apparently have
gotten more likely mac80211 will first set up the BSS info, then add the
station and then switch to an HT channel type.

Therefore, the check for "priv->current_ht_config.is_ht" in
iwl_rxon_add_station() will hit false and not fill in the HT information.

However, that check can just be removed, which is the easiest fix for all this,
because the HT capa struct is always there, just could possibly have the
ht_supported member set to false.
"""

A sample good link in my 3x3 network improves by approximately 25% TCP
throughput. This fixes Bug 2144
(http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2144).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:27 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
81963d6857 iwlwifi: cleanup spectrum measurement command support
In iwlagn the support for spectrum measurement command has been
disabled since v2.6.29 without any requests for it. In addition to this
when this command is indeed enabled it has been found to trigger firmware
SYSASSERT on at least 4965 and 5100 hardware (see
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952 ). Since then
this code has been bitrotting and cannot just be enabled without porting.

Remove support for spectrum measurement command from iwlagn. It can be
added back if there is a future need and the firmware problem it triggers
has been fixed. Support for the spectrim measurement notification remains
as it has been enabled all the time.

In addition to this remove the 3945 spectrum measurement command Kconfig
option and make this command always supported. The code added by this
enabling is minimal and only run when user triggers a spectrum measurement
request via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
65baa90d92 iwlwifi: check endianness annotations by default
sparse won't check endianness annotations by
default, but iwlwifi is and should be clean
so we can make sparse check them on it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
875295f183 iwlwifi: fix sparse warning
sparse correctly warns about symbol not
being static, make static to shut it up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4c84a8f167 iwlwifi: clean up debugfs code
The debugfs code can be made a whole lot more
efficient by using debugfs_remove_recursive(),
the large chunk of variables can completely go
away and by moving two variables we no longer
need to allocate an extra chunk of memory.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
158bea07c6 iwlwifi: reorder device setup
It is better to first notify cfg80211 about the hw
rfkill state (so the rfkill device that will be
registered won't have the wrong state while being
registered), and the power/tt variable init can
(and probably should) also be done first.

Also rename iwl_setup_mac to
iwl_mac_setup_register to better describe what it
really does.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1d8c4ae916 iwlwifi: is no longer experimental
It really hasn't been for a long time, not sure
why this stuck around.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:24 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
06702a735e iwlwifi: module parameter to enable/disable bt co-exist
Adding "bt_coex_active" module parameter for iwlcore to enable/disable
BT coexist; if bt_coex_active is true (default), uCode will do kill/defer
every time the priority line is asserted (BT is sending signals on the
priority line in the PCIx). By disable the bt_coex_active, uCode will
ignore the BT activity and perform the normal operation.

Users might experience transmit issue on some platform due to this
WiFi/BT co-exist problem. The possible symptoms are: NetworkManager and
other similar programs can scan and find all the available APs, but will
timeout and unable to associate with any of the APs; no out-going frames
can be found with wireless sniffer tools.

On those platforms, WiFi communication can be restored by set "bt_coex_active"
module parameter to "false"

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:23 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
dab1c161fe iwlwifi: bit field description for BT Config command
Give better bit filed define and description for flag parameter
in REPLY_BT_CONFIG command:

flags:
 bit 0 - 1: BT channel announcement enabled
         0: disable
 bit 1 - 1: priority of BT device enabled
         0: disable
 bit 2 - 1: BT 2 wire support enabled
         0: disable

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:23 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
1fa97aaeb7 iwlwifi: cleanup station adding code
The work done when a station is added is very similar whether the station
is added synchronously or asynchronously. Centralize this work. At the same
time increase the status flags being checked for when the command returns
with accompanying debug messages. Also increase checking when setting the
"ucode active" state with accompanying debugging.

This work is done in preparation for station notification support.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
07f33f92e8 iwlwifi: enable DC calibration
From: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>

For 6X50 DC calibration needs to be initialized
else uCode will run an endless loop.
Enbale DC calibration in hw config.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
3e4fb5faef iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune.  There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point.  By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.

To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d4d59e88cb iwlwifi: Logic to control how frequent radio should be reset if needed
Add additional logic for internal scan routine to control how
frequent this function should be performed.

The intent of this function is to reset/re-tune the radio and bring the
RF/PHY back to normal state, it does not make sense calling it too
frequent,
if reset the radio can not bring it back to normal state, it indicate
there are other reason to cause the radio not operate correctly.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:20 -05:00