ath5k only generated the beacon when bss_info_changed() was called,
but for AP mode this is not enough, because the TIM IE would never
get updated and consequently PS mode clients wouldn't know about
buffered frames. Instead, get a new beacon on every SWBA interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Add code to support the various antenna scenarios supported by hw
* For now hardcode the default scenario (single or dual omnis with
tx/rx diversity working and tx antenna handled by session -hw keeps
track on which antenna it got ack from each ap/station and maps each
ap/station to one of the antennas-).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After some debuging we were hitting the following bugs so far...
* Due to huge channel list hostapd couldn't get infos from the driver
and couldn't set the channel. If we manualy set the channel after
hostapd starts (by setting channel to 0 -auto), beacons are sent
but they wont show up on scan because they are malformed (they have
channel = 0 because hostapd doesn't update the channel info -this is
probably a hostapd bug so i'm CCing Jouni) and they get dropped. Bob
fixed this by only allowing standard channels to be registered so
now hostapd works as expected.
* Docs (and HAL source) say that we must write 0 on timer0 when
operating on AP mode to start TSF increment but this seems to
mess with DBA in many cases and beacon queue never gets started.
We fixed that on the previous patch.
We have some more things to deal with...
* For some reason (hw bug or something else) after restarting hostapd
a few times, beacon inteval seems to change from 100ms to a sec
(we get one beacon per sec).
* We need to set sleep timers on STA mode and enable power saving +
support PCF.
...but i think it's time we enable AP support "officialy" so that
we can get more feedback from users. I ran ath5k with the mentioned
patches + hostapd 0.6.8 and AP mode worked fine (it had some less
throughput on my tests than IBSS but it worked).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Write next beacon timer even on AP mode since without this we get
no beacons + ath9k does it too. Docs say that we must write 0 on
this register on AP mode to start TSF increment, we do both to be
on the safe side.
* Fix num_tx_pending function, we never read the register :P that's
why we got all those "beacon queue 7 didn't stop messages".
* Put full prioriy on beacon queue, lock all queues with lower
priority using the arblock and also bypass any arblock by seting
the arblock ignore flag.
* For the CAB queue (do we need this thing ?, it seems crap) since
it's supposed to fire up after each beacon (we don't use it on driver
part, ath9k/MadWiFi does), don't make it DBA gated but instead make
it fire after each beacon by using the beacon sent gated flag.
* Increase bmiss threshold to 10, that's what we used on MadWiFi for
a long time. Also when we have pending frames on the beacon queue (we
got a beacon that didn't make it on the air) it's more likely that
the beacon queue never started, probably due to faulty DBA setting,
so change that "beacon queue didn't stop" message.
Tested this with AP mode and IBSS mode and seems to work fine ;-)
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Now that we have regulatory control enable the driver to set
txpower on hw
* Also use txpower table offset so that we can match
power range set by user/driver with indices on power table.
Tested 2 different cards (a CM9 and an RF5112-based ubnt) and got
the same output using a remote machine to measure per-packet rssi
(conected the cards using attenuators). I also switched between
various tx power levels and i saw an equal power change on the remote
machine (so txpower changes as expected) and verified that we have
the same output on each rate.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear points out that the "too many interrupts" message will
never print in the intended case since the interrupt counter
will be -1 after the loop. Change it to pre-decrement so it will
be 0 on the thousandth iteration.
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the
BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most
other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes
config_interface and rolls all the information it previously
passed to drivers into bss_info_changed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
an AP.
This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.
NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
drivers, some are updated in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Grabbing an ath5k_buf then dropping the lock is racy because the
referenced descriptor can be obtained in another thread and released
before the buffer is handed to the hardware. Likewise, manipulating
sc->rxlink without the lock can lead to having multiple self-linked
hardware descriptors.
Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the code used to detect when the
self-linked DMA buffer is still in use by hardware, by
checking the hardware's rxdp register instead of looking
at the software buffer list.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Current code uses int types, but both modparams are boolean values.
Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For embedded platforms, beacon transmission can be starved when
flooded with data packets. Prioritize beacons by giving the beacon
queue the first shot when the isr completes.
Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bob Copeland