The firmware keeps track of channel usage. This data can
be used by the automatic channel selection to find the best
channel.
Survey data from wlan4
frequency: 5200 MHz [in use]
noise: -91 dBm
channel active time: 811909 ms
channel busy time: 63395 ms
channel transmit time: 59636 ms
Survey data from wlan4
frequency: 5210 MHz
noise: -91 dBm
channel active time: 121 ms
channel busy time: 119 ms
channel transmit time: 0 ms
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"For best CPU usage and power consumption, having as few
frames as possible percolate through the stack is
desirable. Hence, the hardware should filter as much
as possible."
Note: Not all firmwares include the multicast filter
feature and the stack does not filter them either.
The ARP filter on the other hand was dropped from the
patch since it does not work correctly:
Quote from: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg67466.html>
"In the ARP case, when there's no other traffic on p54spi,
all ARP requests are dropped. But if there's some egress
traffic from p54spi, filter seems to work correctly:
only ARP requests that match filter pass through.
In the multicast case filter seems to work correctly, but
it treats broadcast as subject to that filtering too. By
default only 01:00:5e:00:00:01 gets into priv->mc_maclist,
so we miss all broadcasts.
These two filters seem to interfere:
- if we set ARP filter and multicast filter without bc
=> we miss all ARPs if there's no egress traffic;
- if we set ARP filter and multicast filter with bc or
don't set mc filter at all => we get all ARPs.
This effect does not depend on filter setup order."
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The callback sets slot time as specified in IEEE 802.11-2007
section 17.3.8.6 and raises round trip delay accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes several shortcomings of the
previous implementation. Features of the
rewrite include:
* handles undocumented "0x0000" word at the
start of the frequency table.
(Affected some early? DELL 1450 USB devices
and my Symbol 5GHz miniPCI card.)
* supports more than just one reference point
per band. (Also needed for the Symbol card.)
* ships with default values in case the eeprom
data is damaged, absent or unsupported.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.
p54 uses struct ieee80211_tx_queue_stats also internally, so create a new
identical struct p54_tx_queue_stats which the driver can use.
Compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a firmware crash which can be provoked by changing
operation mode.
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enhances the eeprom parser to generate customized
channel list for every device.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch re-enables p54's power save features and adds a workaround
which temporarily alters the device's power state in order to allow
ps-polls to be sent and buffered data to be retrieved during psm.
(Incorporates patch originally posted as "p54: fix beacon template dtim
IE corruption". -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Modify the remaining p54 files to account for the new file organization.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch takes care of outstanding TODOs:
/* TODO: some devices have 4 more free slots for rx keys */
Now the driver can utilize all available key slots instead of just 4.
Obviously, this helps most in AP/IBSS(/MESH) mode, when
we have to use more different keys.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds beacon filtering support to p54.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch hopefully finishes the SoftLED code:
- It adds two more LEDs (rx and radio).
(the FW claims it can support up to 16 LEDs,
but I doubt that any vendor put more than 4 on a board)
- update the LEDs in a _delayed_ workqueue.
No one reported any more crashes.
(see: "PATCH] p54: fix race condition in memory management")
So we can stop burning the mm code.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch rearrange and regroups most elements in p54_common.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I'm very sorry, as this change belongs to the other patch:
"[PATCH] p54: fix SoftLED compile dependencies".
however I must have somehow lost "git add" for that file.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds SoftLED support for all p54 devices.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All three drivers (p54pci, p54usb and p54spi) are implementing the
same functionality three times. So, why not put it into the shared library?!
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the standards only define 12 legacy rates, 32 is certainly
a sane upper limit and we don't need to use u64 everywhere. Add
sanity checking that no more than 32 rates are registered and
change the variables to u32 throughout.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support to upload pre-calculated calibration data to the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 reserves 24 bytes in skb->cb for the driver.
So far, we only used them to keep track of used and free device memory.
But p54spi will need a slice of it, as well as the stuck frame detection.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Old firmwares had no problems processing frames which filled eighth of the memory window.
However we have to be a bit more careful with fat frames when we talk to new firmwares.
Apart from that, I confess the old logic was a bit weird and not very sophisticated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Respect all documented bits in the eeprom about the device diversity features.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the tx code a bit and will be necessary for
the upcoming stlc45xx<->p54 port.
In detail: we no longer have to tell all back-end drivers directly,
if we want to free a frame right after it was send to the firmware,
or if we do it in the library callback later.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces the static rssi auto calibration data
with more precise values out of the device's eeprom.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves a good chunk of code from the former statistic update
timer routine into a workqueue, which is kindly provided by mac80211.
Also as a nice side-effect we can lay the foundation for other
essential housekeeping features we want to do in the future.
e.g:
- drain the (clogged) tx_queue.
- initiate bursts.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Thanks to the introduction of "changed" flags, we no longer
have to do the bookkeeping of p54's firmware state for everything.
Thus we can cut down redundancy code.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch allows p54 to utilize its WEP, TKIP and CCMP accelerator.
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As was pointed out in "p54: honour bss_info_changed's short slot time settings",
bss_info_changed provides more useful settings that can be used by the driver.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
It's been a long time, but fullmac prism54 driver is still around...
I think we should rename every prism54* in order to avoid some
confusion about "what is actually what" in the future ;-).
Thanks-to: Maxi <maxi@daemonizer.de>
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 callback takes a ieee80211_tx_queue_stats with a contained
array of ieee80211_tx_queue_stats_data, remove the former, rename
the latter to ieee80211_tx_queue_stats and make tx_stats() take
the array directly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Christian Lamparter