The new mechanism for allocing space for control frames,
didn't "zero" out the payload data... However I haven't
heard of any hiccups so far...
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c: In function ‘p54_tx’:
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c:1058: warning: ‘tim_len’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch finally adds all necessary code to test Ad-hoc & AP mode with p54.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
stlc45xx's specs finally brought some light what all the 4 extra queues for.
now CAB data and managment frames have their own queue.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch ports more useful features to p54
- PDR definitions for the synth chips & regulatory domain.
- honour IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ flag, if it's set.
- adds some lost mutex_lock & mutex_unlock.
- replace two more "magic values" that sneaked past.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes thought it would have been a good idea to change the firmware names.
Note: we still have fallbacks in case our users don't want to "break their running system",
but we won't advertise them with MODULE_FIRMWARE.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes most/all? of the "magic" numbers and unknown structure
variables inside the code and replaces them with meaningful prototypes.
(Plus a one line warning fix from Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>.)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch initialize all remaining values which are necessary for
SPI firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have to be careful if multiple "control frames" are passed in a very short intervals to
the device's firmware. As p54_assign_address always put them into same memory location.
To guarantee that this won't happen anymore, we have to treat control frames like normal
data frames in the devices own memory management.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
the long names and the nesting in p54_rx_frame_sent really
became a "line longer than 80 characters" problem.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch series hopefully increases p54's "longterm" stability.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This implements multi-rate retry in p54. With lots of help
and testing from Christian and the limiting idea from nbd.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sorry about that, for some reason I didn't notice that I'd
left some unused variables in there.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I've come to think that not providing sequence numbers for
the normal STA mode case was a mistake, at least two drivers
now had to implement code they wouldn't otherwise need, and
I believe at76_usb and adm8211 might be broken.
This patch makes mac80211 assign a sequence number to all
those frames that need one except beacons. That means that
if a driver only implements modes that do not do beaconing
it need not worry about the sequence number.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch entitled "[PATCH] p54: Fix sparse warnings" added the __le16
variable rx_mtu to struct bootrec, but it could equally well be placed
in the struct bootrec_desc, which overlays the 'data' section of bootrec.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration
actually changed, e.g. channel etc.
No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are
expected to act on this if they want to.
Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often
we configure something else.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch was made on behalf of Johannes request.
"mac80211 and IEEE80211_CONF_SHORT_SLOT_TIME"
Of course, bss_info_changed provides some more useful data.
e.g.: basic_rates, dtim_period, beacon_int and maybe even more.
Everything can be hooked up if it's necessary.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.
I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On Saturday 25 October 2008 10:24:10 Johannes Berg wrote:
> just FYI in case you haven't seen them. the p54 one looks like a genuine
> problem.
>
> drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c: In function ‘p54_parse_eeprom’:
> drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c:325: warning: ‘synth’ may be used uninitialized in this function
There you go. Yes, it is a genuine problem, if the device's eeprom is screwed really up.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Badness at /home/proski/src/linux-2.6/net/mac80211/rx.c:2200
NIP: c02bc850 LR: c02ab268 CTR: 00000000
REGS: ef01fcc0 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G W (2.6.27-wl)
MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 22004084 XER: 20000000
TASK = c1a58800[1778] 'p54pci' THREAD: ef01e000
[...]
NIP [c02bc850] __ieee80211_rx+0x17c/0x638
LR [c02ab268] ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0x104/0x120
Call Trace:
[ef01fd70] [c1a0c020] 0xc1a0c020 (unreliable)
[ef01fdb0] [c02ab268] ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0x104/0x120
[...]
the problem was that some older cards are mis-identified and didn't support
5GHz rates, while they have the right MAC & Synth chip.
This patch changes the way how p54 decides if it should enable 11a channels
or not.
Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit entitled "p54: Fix sparse warnings" introduced a compile
error on PPC architecture. Thanks to Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> for reporting this problem.
Signed-off-by: <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds the a few lines that went missing in
"p54: 802.11a 5GHz phy support"
Essentially: the rx-code wasn't updated and therefore reported the wrong band,
but more importantly the rate index was off as well, since 802.11a doesn't
allow the "four" 802.11b rates...
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The command
make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" drivers/net/wireless/p54/
generates the following warnings:
.../p54common.c:152:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:152:38: expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *p
.../p54common.c:152:38: got unsigned int *<noident>
.../p54common.c:184:15: warning: restricted __le32 degrades to integer
.../p54common.c:185:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
.../p54common.c:309:11: warning: symbol 'p54_rf_chips' was not declared.
Should it be static?
.../p54common.c:313:5: warning: symbol 'p54_parse_eeprom' was not declared.
Should it be static?
.../p54common.c:620:43: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:620:43: expected unsigned long [unsigned] [usertype] len
.../p54common.c:620:43: got restricted __le16 [usertype] len
.../p54common.c:780:41: warning: restricted __le16 degrades to integer
.../p54common.c:781:32: warning: restricted __le16 degrades to integer
.../p54common.c:1250:28: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:1250:28: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1250:28: got restricted __le16 [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1252:28: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:1252:28: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1252:28: got restricted __le16 [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1257:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:1257:42: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1257:42: got restricted __le16
.../p54common.c:1260:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
.../p54common.c:1260:42: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] filter_type
.../p54common.c:1260:42: got restricted __le16
.../p54usb.c:228:10: warning: restricted __le32 degrades to integer
.../p54usb.c:228:23: warning: restricted __le32 degrades to integer
.../p54usb.c:228:7: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
.../p54usb.c:228:7: expected restricted __le32 [assigned] [usertype] chk
.../p54usb.c:228:7: got unsigned int
.../p54usb.c:221:8: warning: symbol 'p54u_lm87_chksum' was not declared.
Should it be static?
All of the above have been fixed. One question, however, remains: In struct
bootrec, the array "data" is treated in many places as native CPU order, but
it may be little-endian everywhere. As far as I can tell, this driver has only
been used with little-endian hardware.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch brings the 5GHz Phy in any prism54 devices (of course, only those who have one) to life.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I hope this patch is enough to cover at least the basic requirements of IEEE 802.11h's TPC.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The firmware can provide lots of useful statistics about noise floor,
mac time and lots of numbers about successful transfers and dropped
frames.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds new filters settings to make the card more useful in monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tcpdump:
02:15:42.874518 61112184us tsft 48.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) antenna 1 [0x0000000e] CF +QoS Data IV
02:15:42.874557 >>>4356079526us<<< tsft 24.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) antenna 1 [0x0000000e] Acknowledgment
02:15:42.976844 61214513us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) antenna 0 [0x0000000e] Beacon
as one can see on the huge jump, it's very plausible that firmware does not report the
full 64-bit mac time, just the lower 32bit and some kinds of flags...
Therefore if we want a useful timestamp we have to emulate the high bits.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch hopefully contains all necessary changes to support
firmwares for all devices up to atleast 2.13.3.0.
(or: LowerMAC Protocol Rev: 5.5 )
And this is a big win, since:
* newer firmwares are more stable and reliable than the old ones.
* no problems anymore with packages > 1399 octets (without lowering the MTU).
* monitor mode finally works on USB for more than just a few seconds.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
p54_set_filter has a way too many unnecessary "magic" parameters and values.
This patch axes all superfluous parameters and gives most of the magic values appropriate names.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds the necessary changes to support LM87 firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Both p54pci and p54usb uses a good chunk of device specific code to
get the data from the device's eeprom into the drivers memory.
So, this patch reduces the code size and will it make life easier if
someone wants to implement ethtool eeprom dumping features.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch greatly reduces one of biggest memory waste in the driver.
The firmware headers provides the right values for extra head-/tailroom
and mtu size which are usually much lower than the old hardcoded ones.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The firmware supports 8 different queues and not only 4.
So, let's make some room for further tasks (ap/adhoc support)
in this area.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
p54_rx_frame_sent will alter the tx_queue. Therefore we should hold
the lock to protect against concurrent p54_assign_address calls.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ever wondered why the signal was so bad with p54 compared to madwifi, or intel?
Well, if you have revision 1 rssi calibration curve points in your EEPROM, then wonder no more.
The firmware wants a extra 1 byte padding for every curve point. But someone forgot to put
them into the EEPROM's data structure...
So now, big question: what happens when we blindly "memcpy" these data points?
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
priv->tx_hdr_len is set by the driver _after_ it called p54_init_common.
While this isn't much a problem for any PCI or ISL3887 cards/sticks,
because they don't need any extra header and therefore tx_hdr_len is
zero for them...
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit b19fa1f, entitled "net: Delete NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE kconfig
option" breaks p54pci and p54usb.
Additionally, the old logic always tx'ed cts frames (if enabled)
with a short preamble when [rate > 3]. (i.e. with any 802.11g rate).
Of course this isn't that bad, but it's still wrong!
(This patch also clarifies the meanings of some of the fields in the tx
header for the hardware. -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
these "magic" values must to be the other way round...
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Following "mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers", if a packet
has the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ assigned, a sequence number must be
supplied, either by hardware or software. AFAIK, no such hardware exists
for the p54, thus it must be done in software. With this patch, a connection
qith p54usb is stable, whereas the interface went off-line in 2-3 hours
without this change. Note that this code will have to be reworked for proper
sequence numbers on beacons. In addition, the sequence number has been placed
in the hardware state, not the vif state.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Experience with the rtl8187 driver has shown that mac80211 can make
calls to the config callback routine in rapid succession. This patch
creates a mutex that protects the private data in several of the routines
called by mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The p54 driver family reports a quality of 0 in iwconfig and iwlist
output. This patch calculates a quality number as a percentage of the
rssi to the maximum signal of 127 reported as the maximum signal.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When I moved the TX info into skb->cb apparently I forgot to change a
few places to put the p54-internal data into info->driver_data rather
than skb->cb. This should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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