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243727 Commits

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Johan Hedberg
1f6c6378c5 Bluetooth: Add define for the maximum name length on HCI level
This patch adds a clear define for the maximum device name length in HCI
messages and thereby avoids magic numbers in the code.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 14:22:54 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
f0681a68dd Bluetooth: remove unnecessary function declaration
hci_notify() doesn't need declaration first.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 14:22:53 -03:00
Yevgeny Petrilin
c379474591 mlx4: Fixing bad size of event queue buffer
We should reduce the number of reserved completion queues from the total
number of entries. Since the queue size is power of two, not reducing the
reserved entries, caused a double queue size, which may lead to allocation
failures in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-31 02:52:18 -07:00
Yevgeny Petrilin
53020092bd mlx4: Fixing use after free
In case of allocation failure, tried to use the promiscuous QP
entry that was previously freed.
Now freeing this entry only in case we will not put it back to the list
of promiscuous entries.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-31 02:52:17 -07:00
Peter Pan(潘卫平)
5e8996e728 bonding:typo in comment
use accumulates instead of acumulates.

Signed-off-by: Pan Weiping <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-31 01:54:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
a84b50ceb7 sctp: Pass __GFP_NOWARN to hash table allocation attempts.
Like DCCP and other similar pieces of code, there are mechanisms
here to try allocating smaller hash tables if the allocation
fails.  So pass in __GFP_NOWARN like the others do instead of
emitting a scary message.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 17:51:36 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
04f482faf5 connector: convert to synchronous netlink message processing
Commits 01a16b21 (netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms)
and c53fa1ed (netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct
netlink_skb_parms) removed some members from struct netlink_skb_parms
that depend on the current context, all netlink users are now required
to do synchronous message processing.

connector however queues received messages and processes them in a work
queue, which is not valid anymore. This patch converts connector to do
synchronous message processing by invoking the registered callback handler
directly from the netlink receive function.

In order to avoid invoking the callback with connector locks held, a
reference count is added to struct cn_callback_entry, the reference
is taken when finding a matching callback entry on the device's queue_list
and released after the callback handler has been invoked.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 17:14:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
e2666f8495 fib: add rtnl locking in ip_fib_net_exit
Daniel J Blueman reported a lockdep splat in trie_firstleaf(), caused by
RTNL being not locked before a call to fib_table_flush()

Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 16:57:46 -07:00
Philip A. Prindeville
c031235b39 atm/solos-pci: Don't flap VCs when carrier state changes
Don't flap VCs when carrier state changes; higher-level protocols
can detect loss of connectivity and act accordingly. This is more
consistent with how other network interfaces work.

We no longer use release_vccs() so we can delete it.

release_vccs() was duplicated from net/atm/common.c; make the
corresponding function exported, since other code duplicates it
and could leverage it if it were public.

Signed-off-by: Philip A. Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 16:53:38 -07:00
Philip A. Prindeville
18b429e74e atm/solos-pci: Don't include frame pseudo-header on transmit hex-dump
Omit pkt_hdr preamble when dumping transmitted packet as hex-dump;
we can pull this up because the frame has already been sent, and
dumping it is the last thing we do with it before freeing it.

Also include the size, vpi, and vci in the debug as is done on
receive.

Use "port" consistently instead of "device" intermittently.

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 16:53:37 -07:00
Philip A. Prindeville
1e19e65856 atm/solos-pci: Use VPI.VCI notation uniformly.
Use VPI.VCI notation consistently throughout the module. This is the
one remaining place where the VCI is used before the VPI in any output.

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 16:53:37 -07:00
Felix Fietkau
83860c594f ath9k_hw: remove pCap->tx_triglevel_max
It has the same purpose (and value) as ah->config.max_txtrig_level

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:21 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
340d0ea774 ath9k_hw: remove ATH9K_HW_CAP_ENHANCEDPM
It is not used anywhere

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6de12a1bce ath9k_hw: remove pCap->keycache_size
Similar to the number of tx queue, the number of keycache entries depends
on the chip and shouldn't be messed with based on EEPROM data.
Remove this field and stick to using AR_KEYTABLE_SIZE

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
c429bdcf8f ath9k_hw: remove pCap->reg_cap
It is not used anywhere and seems pointless

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
0db156e964 ath9k_hw: remove ah->config.ht_enable
It is only used in one place, and the device id check that it's based on
can be moved there as well.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
f4c607dc53 ath9k_hw: remove pCap->total_queues
The EEPROM contains a field that can restrict the number of hardware queues,
however this is not only useless (all the known chips contain the same
number of hardware queues), but also potentially dangerous in case of a
misprogrammed EEPROM (could trigger driver crashes), so let's just ignore
it completely.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
a9b6b2569c ath9k_hw: turn a few big macros into functions
RF_BANK_SETUP, REG_WRITE_RF_ARRAY and REG_WRITE_ARRAY are way too big,
so they shouldn't be inlined at every single callsite, especially since they
can easily be turned into real functions.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:19 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
ca7a4deb4a ath9k_hw: replace REG_READ+REG_WRITE with REG_RMW
It's easier to read and it slightly decreases code size

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:19 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
845e03c93d ath9k_hw: add a new register op for read-mask-write
Reduces the number of calls to register ops. On MIPS this reduces the
ath9k_hw binary size from 321k down to 310k

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:19 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
f9f84e96f6 ath9k_hw: embed the ath_ops callbacks in the ath_hw struct
With this change, loading the address to a register read/write function
costs only one pointer dereference instead of two. On MIPS this reduces
ath9k_hw binary size from 326k down to 321k.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:19 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
ec15e68ba6 cfg80211: Add nl80211 event for deletion of a station entry
Indicate an NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION event when a station entry in
mac80211 is deleted to match with the NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION event
that is used when the entry was added. This is needed, e.g., to allow
user space to remove a peer from RSN IBSS Authenticator state machine
to avoid re-authentication and re-keying delays when the peer is not
reachable anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:18 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
cfdc9a8bb8 ath9k: Support RSN IBSS
Add support for using RSN IBSS with ath9k. For now, this uses software
crypto for group addressed frames in RSN IBSS, but that may be
optimized in the future by extending the key cache design to support
per-STA RX GTK.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
c944daf46a ath9k: fix stuck beacon detection
Stuck beacon detection is supposed to trigger when 9 consecutive beacons
could not be sent by the hardware. When the driver runs only one active
AP mode interface, it still configures the hardware beacon timer for
4 (ATH_BCBUF) beacon slots slots, which causes stuck beacon detection
to be reset if ath9k_hw_stoptxdma clears the stuck frames between
SWBA intervals.
Fix this by not resetting the missed beacon count for empty slots and
multiplying the threshold not by the maximum number of beacon slots
but by the configured number of beacon interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
87c510fe2d ath9k: trigger nfcal only after multiple missed beacons in AP mode
Single missed (i.e. not transmitted) beacons in AP mode are not very rare
and not necessarily an indicator of strong interference, so only trigger
noise floor recalibration when multiple consecutive beacons could not
be transmitted.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
dd347f2fb2 ath9k: fix beacon timer handling issues
AP mode beacon timers in ath9k are configured in milliseconds, which breaks
when increasing ATH_BCBUF to 8 instead of 4 (due to rounding errors).
Since the hardware timers are actually configured in microseconds, it's
better to let the driver use that unit directly.

To be able to do that, the beacon interval parameter abuse for passing
certain flags needs to be removed. This is easy to do, because those flags
are completely unnecessary anyway. ATH9K_BEACON_ENA is ignored,
ATH9K_BEACON_RESET_TSF can be replaced with calling ath9k_hw_reset_tsf
from the driver directly.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:17 -04:00
Vasily Khoruzhick
f39de99254 libertas_spi: Add support for suspend/resume
Add support for suspend/resume in if_spi.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:17 -04:00
Bing Zhao
5e6e3a92b9 wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver
This driver adds WiFi support for Marvell 802.11n based chipsets
with SDIO interface. Currently only SD8787 is supported. More
chipsets will be supported later.

drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Radhakrishnan <rramesh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:17 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
903946e6e2 ath9k_hw: remove AR9485 1.0 support
Only AR9485 1.1 was sold. This debloats the driver by ~14 KiB.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 300413     624    1056  302093   49c0d drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 310285     624    1056  311965   4c29d drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw-old.ko

$ du -b ath9k_hw*
6210541	ath9k_hw.ko
6225089	ath9k_hw-old.ko

Cc: Bill Wu <bill.wu@atheros.com>
Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Cc: Forbes Tsai <Forbes.Tsai@Atheros.com>
Cc: Jesmine Chen <jesmine.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Marvian Chen <Hou-hua.Chen@Atheros.com>
Cc: Vivek Natarajan <vivek.natarajan@atheros.com>
Cc: Bernadette Yetso <bernadette.yetso@atheros.com>
Cc: Sarvesh Shrivastava <sarvesh.shrivastava@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Yi-Chen Su <yi-chen.su@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Jeffrey Chung <jeffrey.chung@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:17 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
be7974aa10 mac80211: Minor optimization in tx status handling
ieee80211_tx_status iterates over all tx rates the driver reports back
in order to
1) mark tx rates as invalid if the driver cannot have tried that rate
2) find the actually used tx rate for the final retransmission

By leaving the for loop when the first invalid rate index is found we
can move the rates_idx assignment after the loop and therefore save
a few assignments and conditionals.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
a9cbe96d19 ath9k: remove the pending frames ath_txq_schedule workaround
This workaround called ath_txq_schedule whenever there were still pending
frames for a queue, but the queue depth was zero. Because of its its high
false positive probability (e.g. with paused TIDs) and because it is in
the way of other pending work (AP powersave fixes), it is better to remove
this code entirely.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
598cdd5246 ath9k_hw: force rx chainmask to 7 on AR9100
Most AR9100 devices already have a chainmask of 7 (three antennas), however
on the ones that don't (rx and tx chainmask set to 5), problems with IQ
mismatch calibration have been observed.
This shows up as tx queue hangs (and subsequent hardware resets) if traffic
is sent during this type of calibration.
Forcing the rx chainmask to 7 fixes the calibration issues with no apparent
negative side effects on throughput and stability.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
f171760c55 ath9k_hw: enable a BlockAck related fixup specific to AR9100
Fixes interop issues with aggregation in combination with multi-BSSID

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6de66dd963 ath9k: add support for overriding LED pin and GPIO settings from platform data
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:15 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6fb1b1e18f ath9k: add support for overriding the MAC address through platform data
On some devices the correct MAC address is not in the EEPROM data, but
stored somewhere else.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:15 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
691680b833 ath9k: add an interface for overriding the value of specific GPIO pins
Some devices control antenna settings or other things through GPIO pins
of the wireless interface. Add a debugfs interface for changing those
and keeping them set across card resets.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:15 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
c70cab1a45 ath9k: remove unnecessary debugfs return code checks
Since the ath9k debugfs directory is cleaned up by debugfs_remove_recursive,
there's no point in checking the return code of every single debugfs create
line.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:15 -04:00
Larry Finger
716b1bf3c5 rtlwifi: rtl8192c{e,u}: Remove some extraneous casts on memcpy commands
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:14 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
a0e7c6cfe2 mwl8k: Queue ADDBA requests in respective data queues
Queue ADDBA requests in respective data queues to avoid ADDBA
requests and the the related data packets (to the same ra/tid)
queued in the hardware to be sent out asynchronously.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:14 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
170335432a mwl8k: Check outgoing rate for a station to decide if ampdu can be created
If the outgoing packet rate to a particular HT station is <=6.5
Mbps, do not attempt to create an ampdu. Also, if the outgoing
rate is legacy rate, do not create an ampdu.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:14 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
3aefc37ee7 mwl8k: Handle the watchdog event from the firmware
When an ampdu stream is on, if the firmware rate adaptation
logic decides that the outgoing packet rate to the station needs
to go below 6.5Mbps (non HT rate), it sends an event indicating that
the ampdu stream needs to be destroyed. Handle this event in the driver
and destroy the ampdu stream so that the rate can go below 6.5Mbps

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:14 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
65f3ddcd08 mwl8k: Initiate BA sessions
Specifically, handle ampdu_action and attempt to start a BA
session on receiving the first qos packet from mac80211 for
transmission to a HT sta.  While the BA session is being created,
all the packets belonging to that stream will be dropped to
prevent sequence number mismatch at the recipient.

Contains contributions from:
Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>

Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:13 -04:00
Brian Cavagnolo
ac109fd042 mwl8k: add internal API for managing AMPDU streams
In particular, we can now add, start, lookup, and remove streams.

Based on work by Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> and
Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>.

Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:13 -04:00
Brian Cavagnolo
e600707b02 mwl8k: differentiate between WMM queues and AMPDU queues
We now have two different kinds of queues.  And the number of
AMPDU queues may vary.  So we must be clear about which queues we
are dealing with.  Note that when we report the number of queues
to mac80211, we only report the WMM queues.

Based on work by Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>.

Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:13 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
5faa1aff08 mwl8k: add support for block ack commands
Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:13 -04:00
Brian Cavagnolo
8a7a578c2e mwl8k: update to ap firmware API version 2
Firmware APIv2 adds the following enhancements:

-- capabilities are reported by the firmware
-- API supports up to 8 dedicated AMPDU streams
-- optional packet timestamping and expiration can be enabled.
   Specifically, packets that are queued in firmware for longer
   than 500ms will be dropped if this option is used.

Based on work by "Nishant Sarmukadam" <nishants@marvell.com>

Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:13 -04:00
Brian Cavagnolo
73b4632020 mwl8k: refactor in preparation for APIv2 update
Specifically, APIv2 will specify a variable number of AMPDU
queues in the MWL8K_CMD_GET_HW_SPEC.  So init the tx queues after
MWL8K_CMD_GET_HW_SPEC for ap fw.

Also, we make it safe to deinit queues that have not been init'd.
This happens if the mwl8k_get_hw_spec_ap routine fails, for
example.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:12 -04:00
Johannes Berg
c835b21405 mac80211: add comment about reordering
Took me a minute to figure this out, maybe
it's better documented...

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:12 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
e7fc63388d ath9k_hw: Speedup register ops for HTC driver
Fine-tuning register write operation and avoid unnecessay
delays for ath9k_htc driver, saves hw reset time which
improves scanning time and also solves one of the following
scenario.

Sometimes the ACK is sent by STA for assoc response is not
seen at AP side. So the AP continues to send retry assoc
responses. At the STA side, since the assoc response was
already forwarded to mac80211, it proceeded to channel change
which in turns does chip reset.

In most of the cases the chip reset was completed before
max retries are reached at AP side. Hence STA can able to ACK
the retried frames again. But in clear environment these retries
are completed within shortspan of time.

Since ath9k_htc consumes more time for hw reset, this latency
is causing dissociation by AP due to max reties are reached.
This issue was originally reported with Cisco Aironet 1250 AP
in HT40 mode in noise free environment.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:12 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
b0a9ede228 ath: Speedup key set/reset ops for HTC driver
By enabling buffered register write for ath9k_htc driver
avoids unnecessary dissociation while rekeying phase under
heavy traffic exchange.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:11 -04:00