Currently the driver configures mac80211 to provide two rates for each TX frame:
One initial rate and one alternate fallback rate, each one with its retry count.
HW does not support fully this: rtl8180 doesn't have support for rate scaling at
all, and rtl8185/rtl8187SE supports it in a way that does not fit with mac80211:
The HW does automatically fall back to the next lower rate, and only a lower
limit can be specified, so the HW may TX also on rates in between the two rates
specified by mac80211. Furthermore only the total TX retry count can be
specified for each packet, while the number of TX attempts before scaling rate
can be configured only globally (not per each packet).
Currently the driver sets the HW auto rate fallback mechanism to quickly scale
rate after a couple of retries, and it uses the alternate rate requested by
mac80211 as fallback limit rate (and it does this even wrongly).
The HW indeed will behave differently than what mac80211 mandates, that is
probably undesirable, and the reported TX retry count may not refer to what
mac80211 thinks, and this could fool mac80211.
This patch makes the driver to declare to mac80211 to support only one rate
configuration for each packet, and it does disable the HW auto rate fallback
mechanism, relying only on SW and letting mac80211 to do all by itself.
This should ensure correct operation and fairness respect to mac80211.
Indeed here tests with iperf do not show significant performance differences.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
HW is programmed with wrong retry count value for TX:
Mac80211 passes to driver the number of times the TX should be attempted.
The HW, instead, wants the number of time the TX should be retried if it fails
the first time (assuming we have to TX it at least one time).
This patch correct this.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rtl8187se support has been added to the rtl818x_pci driver by extracting a lot
of information from a rtl8187se Linux staging driver included in the kernel at
the time rtl8187se support was added.
The rtl818x_pci main file has a comment that advertises this.
Recently this staging driver has been removed from the kernel, but I still feel
it can be useful as "reference" code (in case of bugs, or to implement
improvements in rtl818x_pci driver).
This one-line patch adds a comment in rtl818x_pci driver to point people
searching for that "reference code" to the last kernel version still containing
it (3.14).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Measuring time between _end_ of CTS-to-self and _end_ of datapacket (with a
prism54 board and mac80211 hacked to let the MAC timestamp stay untouched in the
radiotap header) resulted in about 300uS, while the datapacket itself should be
by far shorter (less than 100uS) and IFS should be SIFS (10uS).
This measure was confirmed whith a scope: about 250uS IFS has been seen between
the two packets.
This situation causes the CTS-to-self protection mechanism to work incorrectly
due to the NAV expiring during, or even before beginning, the packet
transmission, and it also causes the performances to be anyway reduced due to
time waste.
This problem has been seen at every packet TXed with CTS-to-self enabled on
rtl8185 board.
rtl8187se seems not affected (and rtl8180, being a 802.11b card, does not have
CTS-to-self mechaninsm).
This patch fixes this by adding a magic register write, making the board wait
for correct SIFS after CTS-to-self packet.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
BSSID register was written with six byte-writes.
It seems that, similarly to what happens with MAC registers, they needs to be
written with one 16-bit and one 32-bit writes, otherwise the write does not work.
The byte write didn't work only on my rtl8185, while it worked on rtl8180 and
rtl8187se, BTW since there are probably a number of different ASIC revisions out
of there, I let the change to affect all cards.
It shouldn't hurt anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
LCNXN is simply a continuation of N, e.g. code handling LCNXN revs 0 and
1 is mostly the same as for N-PHY revs 7+.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix checkpatch warning:
WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required
Cc: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch fixes a couple of issues:
- absence of deallocation of rsi_dev->rx_usb_urb[0] in the driver;
- potential NULL pointer dereference because of lack of checks for memory
allocation success in rsi_init_usb_interface().
By the way, it makes rsi_probe() returning error code instead of 1
and fixes comments regarding returning values.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Right now sleep duration is configured as beacon interval. It should be
the multiple of beacon interval by listen period which helps to
reduce station power consumption.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Earlier the listen interval is used to decide switching between
operating and off-channels during bgscan and to improve throughput,
the listen interval is reduced to 1. After optimiztion in scan
state machine, listen period is not used for decision making and
hence reverting it back to original value.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The beacon configurations are not cached properly after the station
associates with AP. Not handling BEACON_INFO, is failing to update
dtim period and also it is causing below warning message.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:548
ath_rx_tasklet+0xc89/0xca0 [ath9k]()
Call Trace:
[<c14669c9>] dump_stack+0x48/0x69
[<c104f1a2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xa0
[<fd38c2f9>] ? ath_rx_tasklet+0xc89/0xca0 [ath9k]
[<fd38c2f9>] ? ath_rx_tasklet+0xc89/0xca0 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Treat frames that underwent a CCK or OFDM restart as frames with an invalid CRC.
Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <vanhoefm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the FIF_FCSFAIL filter flag is set, pass frames with CRC errors.
Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <vanhoefm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Why is converting time formats so desired if there are proper
interfaces for this?
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit a82fc3b4a2bceb7c6587249cb690342eb5065979.
Thomas corrected me on that I misunderstood Johannes' comment
for net_timedelta() and the ktime_get_real() usage inside
__net_timestamp().
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixed a warning related to incorrect return type and removed an
unnecessary semi colon.
Signed-off-by: Jahnavi Meher <jahnavi.meher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixed a potential buffer overflow in 'rsi_rates' and a sparse warning
related to difference in endianness in rsi_91x_mgmt.c.
Signed-off-by: Jahnavi Meher <jahnavi.meher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The p54 driver uses request_firmware() twice, once for actual
firmware and then another time for an optional user overide on
EEPROM, 3826.eeprom. The custom EEPROM is optional but if not
present we'll introduce an extra lag of 60 seconds with udev
present. Annotate we don't want udev nonsense here to avoid
the lag in case its not present.
This was found with the following SmPL patch.
@ firmware_not_critical @
expression cf;
expression config_file;
expression dev;
int ret;
identifier l;
statement S;
@@
- ret = request_firmware(&cf, config_file, dev);
+ ret = request_firmware_direct(&cf, config_file, dev);
if (ret < 0) {
... when != goto l;
when != return ret;
when any
} else {
...
release_firmware(cf);
...
}
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Acked-By: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix tx gain table index on fast channel change for AR953x.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clean ucode selection, fix choice of firmware for LCN, drop some goto-s,
add new devices.
Tested on 14e4:4312, 14e4:4315, 14e4:4328, 14e4:432b, 14e4:4353.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For consistency with other drivers, replace a magic number by a macro.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For consistency with other drivers, replace a magic number by a macro.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bt_msr & 0xfc will never match 0x3. Fix this by using a mask that actually matches the available types.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bt_msr & 0xfc will never match 0x3. Fix this by using a mask that actually matches the available types.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bt_msr & 0xfc will never match 0x3. Fix this by using a mask that actually matches the available types.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for external PA and clean code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The users of the fwil put an error message in the log so there is
no need to do the same in the lower level functions in fwil when
the firmware on the device returns an error. Some errors can be
ignored for the driver to function and this will avoid driver users
to point at the low-level error message as potential bug.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of controlling mpc setting during scan operation, initialize
mpc setting and then let firmware take care of it.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
[arend@broadcom.com: keep mpc setting for bcm4329]
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All log messages were set to TRACE level, which is intended
for function entry and exit. Using INFO instead in other
places. Also reducing an error message that always popped
up upon module unload.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Passing a pointer from user space and using it directly in driver is not a
preferable behavior. Switch to cfg80211 vendor mode for dongle command for
better cross platform compatibility.
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some of the USB devices also have Bluetooth inside. These devices
can with specific firmware result in a composite USB device. This
change will update the driver such that it will also accept the
correct interface of composite devices. It is backward compatible
with old non-composite USB fw.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After updating 2G bandwidth capability clear ht info. This will be properly
set upon calling brcmf_update_wiphy_bands().
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the USB 43566 device to the supported devices list. The 43566
is a WiFi-only variant of the 43569. It uses the same FW as 43569.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Added usb device id for the new device 43569 to the list of
supported devices.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Applying ++ to a bool is equivalent to setting it true, regardless of
its initial value (bools are not uint1_t). Hence the function
wl_get_vif_state_all can only ever return true/false. The only in-tree
caller uses its return value as a boolean. So update its return type,
and since the list traversal and bit testing have no side effects,
just return true immediately. Its return value tells if any vif is in
the specified state, so also rename it to brcmf_get_vif_state_any.
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sleep Confirm command is sent separately while other commands
are handled through cmd_pending_q. Print sleep_confirm cmd and
its response as well as power save events so that we have a
clearer picture of power save handshake in driver log.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch updates mwifiex Copyright to 2014.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some SDIO controllers do not support MMC_PM_KEEP_POWER properly.
To test host sleep feature without putting the system into sleep
we need to simulate host sleep configuration & handshake between
driver and firmware using customized parameters.
This patch adds hscfg debugfs item, with which user could change
host sleep parameters for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Firmware dump feature is added for SDIO based chipsets
which can be used with the help of ethtool commands.
1) Trigger firmware dump operation:
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 0xff
When the operation is completed, udev event will be sent to
trigger external application.
2) Following udev rule can be used to get the data from ethtool:
DRIVER=="mwifiex_sdio", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/sbin/mwifiex_sdio_fw_dump.sh"
mwifiex_sdio_fw_dump.sh: #!/bin/bash
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/ITCM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 1
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/DTCM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 2
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/SQRAM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 3
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/APU.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 4
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/CIU.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 5
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/ICU.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 6
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/MAC.log
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As we can derive host pointer from adapter, maintaining
a global variable doesn't make sense.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Existing dedicated card_reset work queue is replaced with the
interface specific workqueue pointer provided by mwifiex module.
Also new work flag is added for card reset task.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Firmware dump feature is added for PCIe based chipsets which can
be used with the help of ethtool commands.
1) Trigger firmware dump operation:
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 0xff
When the operation is completed, udev event will be sent to
trigger external application.
2) Following udev rule can be used to get the data from ethtool:
DRIVER=="mwifiex_pcie", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/sbin/mwifiex_pcie_fw_dump.sh"
mwifiex_pcie_fw_dump.sh: #!/bin/bash
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/ITCM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 1
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/DTCM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 2
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/SQRAM.log
ethtool --set-dump mlan0 3
ethtool --get-dump mlan0
ethtool --get-dump mlan0 data /tmp/IRAM.log
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
