trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.
this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
for signal:
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
for noise we currently only have dBm:
IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.
i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.
DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing
at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing
ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi
b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more
iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more
p54 unspec 127 n/a missing
rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
rt2400 dBm n/a
rt2500pci dBm n/a
rt2500usb dBm n/a
rt61pci dBm n/a
rt73usb dBm n/a
rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?)
rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?)
zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a bug in RX path, the frequency was wrongly set in the
ieee80211_rx_status. This bug led to an empty scan list in A band.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch defines ANA_PLL values in iwl-csr.h
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch replaces ieee80211chan2mhz from radiotap with
ieee80211_frequency_to_channel provided by mac80211
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes all kinds of warnings in iwlwifi.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch add LEDS support to 3965 and 4965 drivers. It is based on
led trigger and class. For our drivers we needed to avoid two things.
1- We receive led trigger on/off on each Rx\Tx frame. In our driver
we can not call led command like that. In this driver once driver
receive a start of traffic it call the led command to start blinking
then we count all bytes of Tx and Rx frame, after two second we count the
blink rate of last two second then id blink rate changed we call the led
commands
2- Since we can call led command very often, we make sure we call the
led command after we receive the statistics notification so
we don't need to wake up the ucode id it is in sleep state.
This patch was tested with 4965 and 3945.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram<ischram@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also fix a copy and paste error in header of iwl-core.c. This file
is not dual licensed.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes iwlYYY_BROADCAST_ID from run time usage.
hw_setting.sta_bcast_id is used instead.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a change to a previous patch ("iwlwifi: 3945 split tx_complete
to command and packet function") to ensure we do not have hardirq safe
locks (priv->lock in this case) depend on hardirq unsafe locks.
We only call iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim while in a tasklet so we have to use
the irqsafe version of the function.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch
1. removes cmd completion from iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim
and creates iwl3945_cmd_queue_reclaim.
1. removes 11n relevant elements from this function
2. removes call to ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
and uses ieee80211_tx_status only
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds fw_name to iwl_cfg. This allows run time selection
of needed fw/ucode file
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch introduces struct iwl_cfg. struct iwl_cfg defines static
configuration for each device type and sku. It is passed as driver_data
to the bus probe function.
This patch also introduce new common header file iwl-core.h
which will represent core functionality of iwlwifi driver
3945ABG uses separate iwl-3945-dev.h header file for now
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch extract CSR Register definition into separate
header files as most of the definition are commons to both
3945 and 4965.
Definitions specific for 3945 and 4965 are properly prefixed
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes reporting rate in RX packets in 52 band.
The rate was updated from CCK rate index instead of OFDM rate 6M
Most of the patch is collateral clean up
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Added tx_ant_num variable into hw_setting
This will be used for scanning TX antenna toggling
On the way removed ac_queue_num unused
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.
Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.
Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.
I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a sparse warning over iwl3945_add_radiotap function by
turning it static
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Be consistent when using inline functions. If the function only used
once we move it to where it is used - no need for externs.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function 'iwl3945_add_radiotap':
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:269: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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 (based on Ron Rindjunsky's) creates a framework for
a unified way to pass BSS configuration to drivers that require
the information, e.g. for implementing power save mode.
This patch introduces new ieee80211_bss_conf structure that is
passed to the driver via the new bss_info_changed() callback
when the BSS configuration changes.
This new BSS configuration infrastructure adds the following
new features:
* drivers are notified of their association AID
* drivers are notified of association status
and replaces the erp_ie_changed() callback. The patch also does
the relevant driver updates for the latter change.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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 give the iwlwifi the ability to support A-MSDU up to 8K
Please notice - in order to work in 8K A-MSDU ucode support is needed,
version 4.44.1.19 (soon to be published). 4K A-MSDU works in current ucode
version as well.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@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 EEPROM stuff.
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>
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>
Replace 0x8086 with PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL for PCI_DEVICE declaration.
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>
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 moves 3945 SCD registers to iwl-prph.h. These registers
are assigned from the periphery bus
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
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 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>
PCI_DEVICE macro is more concise when using defualt values
in device definitions
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 shorten two comments lines in iwl-3945.c
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>
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>
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>
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 patch adds the mac80211 based wireless drivers for the Intel
PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection and Intel Wireless WiFi
Link AGN (4965) adapters.
[ Move driver into it's own directory -DaveM ]
Signed-off-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>
