Currently the driver will try to protect all frames,
which leads to a lot of odd things like sending an
RTS with a zeroed RA before multicast frames, which
is clearly bogus.
In order to fix all of this, we need to take a step
back and see what we need to achieve:
* we need RTS/CTS protection if requested by
the AP for the BSS, mac80211 tells us this
* in that case, CTS-to-self should only be
enabled when mac80211 tells us
* additionally, as a hardware workaround, on
some devices we have to protect aggregated
frames with RTS
To achieve the first two items, set up the RXON
accordingly and set the protection required flag
in the transmit command when mac80211 requests
protection for the frame.
To achieve the last item, set the rate-control
RTS-requested flag for all stations that we have
aggregation sessions with, and set the protection
required flag when sending aggregated frames (on
those devices where this is required).
Since otherwise bugs can occur, do not allow the
user to override the RTS-for-aggregation setting
from sysfs any more.
Finally, also clean up the way all these flags get
set in the driver and move everything into the
device-specific functions.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Different devices have different size of phy calibration table; add
new TLV to specify the size. If the TLV is not part of uCode header, the
default table size will be used to make sure the backward
compatibilities.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
This bit need to be set for both RTS/CTS or CTS-to-self protection, if
CTS-to-self is used, then uCode will check the RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN
status. Change the name from TX_CMD_FLG_RTS_CTS_MSK to TX_CMD_FLAG_PROT_REQUIRE_MSK
to match the behavior of the bit setting.
Also update comments to reflect which hardware uses which of the TX command
flags.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
When building tx command, always set TX_CMD_FLAG_PROT_REQUIRE_MSK
for 5000 series and up.
Without setting this bit the firmware will not examine the RTS/CTS setting
and thus not send traffic with the appropriate protection. RTS/CTS is is
required for HT traffic in a noisy environment where, without this setting,
connections will stall on some hardware as documented in the patch that
initially attempted to address this:
commit 1152dcc28c
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 13:42:58 2010 -0800
iwlwifi: Fix throughput stall issue in HT mode for 5000
Similar to 6000 and 1000 series, RTS/CTS is the recommended
protection mechanism for 5000 series in HT mode based on the HW design.
Using RTS/CTS will better protect the inner exchange from interference,
especially in highly-congested environment, it also prevent uCode encounter
TX FIFO underrun and other HT mode related performance issues.
For 3945 and 4965, different flags are used for RTS/CTS or CTS-to-Self
protection.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Chain noise calibration data are cleared after the calibration is done
in iwlagn_gain_computation() and iwl4965_gain_computation(). This cause
the debugfs entries for those data useless. To provide valid debugging
info, clear those data right before starting the calibration instead.
Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
This patch enables all remaining 6000 series Gen2 devices.
To work-around a firmware crash problem, we disable sending
bt coex command for 6000g2b series devices.
Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Some future hardware will require a different command to
be sent for bluetooth coexist, so make this a virtual
method that can be changed on a per-device basis.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Scan requesting doesn't need to be asynchronous
since all code paths leading up to it can sleep.
Make the scan request a new util operation that
is hw-specific (to account for 3945 vs. agn)
and call it right in place.
This patch moves a lot of code into iwlagn as
it need not be in iwlcore.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Some defines used by all agn devices, but the definitions were in
iwl-4965-hw.h, move those to iwl-agn-hw.h which is the better place for
those.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
After re-structure the agn files layout and move all the
agn shared functions out from iwl-5000.c, all those functions and data
structures do not need to be declare "extern" from iwl-5000.c in
iwl-dev.h.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Multiple iwlagn based devices shared the same hw definitions.
Move device hardware related defines from iwl-5000-hw.h to iwl-agn-hw.h
file.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Multiple iwlagn based devices shared the same hcmd related functions.
Move from iwl-5000.c to iwl-agn-hcmd.c file.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
