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Christian Lamparter 3b5c5827d1 p54: fix sequence no. accounting off-by-one error
P54_HDR_FLAG_DATA_OUT_SEQNR is meant to tell the
firmware that "the frame's sequence number has
already been set by the application."

Whereas IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ is set for
frames which lack a valid sequence number and
either the driver or firmware has to assign one.

Yup, it's the exact opposite!

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-10 15:40:53 -05:00
David S. Miller b4aa9e05a6 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-1000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/vhost/vhost.c
2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
Eduardo Costa 56e6417b49 p54usb: New USB ID for Gemtek WUBI-100GW
This USB ID is for the WUBI-100GW 802.11g Wireless LAN USB Device that
uses p54usb.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Costa <ecosta.tmp@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-14 16:10:45 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 16cad7fba0 p54usb: add 5 more USBIDs
This patch adds five more USBIDs to the table.

Source:
http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2005q3/002307.html
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54/devices (by M. Davis)

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13 14:53:47 -05:00
Joe Perches b276736319 wireless: Remove unnecessary casts of usb_get_intfdata
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02 15:16:47 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 229aebb873 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue => configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation => configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock 631dd1a885 Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00
Julia Lawall 0d91f22b75 drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
  return ret;
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:57:44 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 1a92795dac p54usb: add five more USBIDs
Source:
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Intersil/p54/usb/windows

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:25 -04:00
John W. Linville 29ad2facd4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
	net/mac80211/main.c
2010-09-24 15:52:34 -04:00
Michael Büsch f4bbf922f3 p54spi: Add error message for eeprom failure
This adds an error message for the eeprom request failure
case. This way it's easier for the user to figure out
what went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Michael Büsch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-07 13:54:34 -04:00
Christian Lamparter f880c2050f p54: fix tx feedback status flag check
Michael reported that p54* never really entered power
save mode, even tough it was enabled.

It turned out that upon a power save mode change the
firmware will set a special flag onto the last outgoing
frame tx status (which in this case is almost always the
designated PSM nullfunc frame). This flag confused the
driver; It erroneously reported transmission failures
to the stack, which then generated the next nullfunc.
and so on...

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-30 16:02:32 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 45f7e3116f p54: better rssi->dbm conversion for longbow phys
This patch should fix the dodgy signal and noise value
reports for most longbow (p54spi) users:

e.g.: (an older tcpdump extract)
> 2.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x00a0) -49dB signal -41dB noise
> 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x00a0) 4dB signal -41dB noise

The formula is taken from stlc45xx:
http://gitorious.org/stlc45xx/mainline/blobs/master/stlc45xx.c#line1199

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:34:56 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 11791a6f75 p54usb: fix off-by-one on !CONFIG_PM
The ISL3887 chip needs a USB reset, whenever the
usb-frontend module "p54usb" is reloaded.

This patch fixes an off-by-one bug, if the user
is running a kernel without the CONFIG_PM option
set and for some reason (e.g.: compat-wireless)
wants to switch between different p54usb modules.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:33:20 -04:00
Christian Lamparter d7065c3055 p54spi: Kconfig option for config blob
This patch adds an Kconfig option, which allows the user
to select, whenever he/she wants to include a 4k blob for
generic calibration and interface values into the driver,
or cut the module size by about 15 to 20%.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:33:18 -04:00
John W. Linville 268bae0b68 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-08-24 16:35:40 -04:00
Christian Lamparter d7eb50c0f7 p54: improve eeprom parser
Like other vendors, p54* devices have a checksum for
the EEPROM descriptor data. This patch enhances the
parser code to generate and verify the data fields,
before initializing the radio-chip on the card.

Note:
	If you have to bootstrap an alternative EEPROM image
	for your device and you don't know how to generate a
	valid crc ccitt checksum, you should take a look at:
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/chr/p54tools.git

	The "checksum" utility loads a binary p54 EEPROM blob
	(use the -f switch, to skip the check) and applies
	the correct crc automatically.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:15 -04:00
Christian Lamparter b9c066597f p54spi: fix eeprom checksum
This patch corrects the bogus descriptor checksum of our
Nokia N8XX EEPROM blob.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:14 -04:00
Joe Perches 5db5584441 drivers/net/wireless: Restore upper case words in wiphy_<level> messages
Commit c96c31e499
"(drivers/net/wireless: Use wiphy_<level>)"
inadvertently changed some upper case words to
lower case.  Restore the original case.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-18 16:37:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg 97359d1235 mac80211: use cipher suite selectors
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211
cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values.
That isn't all too useful, and some drivers
benefit from the distinction between WEP40
and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it
all to use the cipher suite selectors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00
John W. Linville 9714d315d2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-08-16 14:40:44 -04:00
John W. Linville 37269e8052 p54: update fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
John W. Linville 2f2f8f2a35 Revert "p54pci: Add PCI ID for SMC2802W"
This reverts commit 5f7aebd845.

Apparently, that PCI ID data was incorrectly taken from the subsystem
information.  The actual ID matches another already known ID.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-09 12:04:56 -04:00
Larry Finger 5f7aebd845 p54pci: Add PCI ID for SMC2802W
The SMC2802W appears to work with p54pci.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: David Cozatt <olbrannon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-04 15:27:38 -04:00
Joe Perches c96c31e499 drivers/net/wireless: Use wiphy_<level>
Standardize the logging macros used.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-27 15:14:13 -04:00
John W. Linville 1b2fb7dc71 p54: Added get_survey callback in order to get channel noise
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-27 14:59:58 -04:00
David S. Miller bb9c03d8a6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-06-17 14:19:06 -07:00
John W. Linville abf52f86aa Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2010-06-17 16:21:14 -04:00
Leann Ogasawara 7484bdc056 p54usb: Comment out duplicate Medion MD40900 device id
The Medion MD40900 device id [0x0cde, 0x0006] is defined twice.
Comment out the duplicate.

Originally-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:58:57 -04:00
Joerg Albert 50900f1698 p54pci: add Symbol AP-300 minipci adapters pciid
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:05:06 -04:00
David S. Miller 14599f1e34 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.h
2010-06-11 11:34:06 -07:00
John W. Linville 9d88477c41 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-06-07 15:13:46 -04:00
Jason Dravet 0f666a0890 p54usb: Add device ID for Dell WLA3310 USB
Add Dell WLA3310 USB wireless card, which has a Z-Com XG-705A chipset, to the
USB Ids in p54usb.

Signed-off-by: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: Richard Gregory Tillmore <rtillmore@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-07 14:42:52 -04:00
Luke-Jr 5f1e83dbc3 p54spi: replace internal "cx3110x" name with "p54spi"
While the comment removed in this patch claims board_n800.c uses
"cx3110x", it was never merged to mainline like this.  Mainlined board
files for Nokia N8x0 devices are expected "p54spi", and thus don't
work because the modalias is "cx3110x".  To my knowledge, these
devices are the only real-world use of p54spi, and will not work
without this change.  Tested against my Nokia N810.

Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 16:00:38 -04:00
Eric Dumazet ba2d358791 drivers/net: use __packed annotation
cleanup patch.

Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03 03:18:23 -07:00
Julia Lawall 27b81bbed8 drivers/net/wireless/p54: Use kmemdup
Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
-  memcpy(to, from, size);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:12 -04:00
Joe Perches a4b770972b drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s
This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary
return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
void functions.

It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

It also does not remove null void functions with return.

Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

with some cleanups by hand.

Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-14 00:19:28 -07:00
John W. Linville 83163244f8 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
2010-05-05 16:14:16 -04:00
John W. Linville 1d7d969dd0 Merge branch 'wireless-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6 2010-05-03 14:53:49 -04:00
David S. Miller 7ef527377b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-05-02 22:02:06 -07:00
Reinette Chatre ad41ee3a45 Merge branch 'wireless-2.6' into wireless-next-2.6
Patch "iwlwifi: work around passive scan issue" was merged into
wireless-2.6, but touched a lot of code since modified (and moved)
in wireless-next-2.6. This caused some conflicts.

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-30 15:13:00 -07:00
David S. Miller 6c9ae016a8 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-04-30 12:54:15 -07:00
John W. Linville f5c044e53a mac80211: remove deprecated noise field from ieee80211_rx_status
Also remove associated IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM from ieee80211_hw_flags.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-30 15:38:13 -04:00
John W. Linville 0cbb3b5e8e p54: remove usage of deprecated noise value
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-28 16:48:22 -04:00
Hans de Goede d4cde88c1c p54pci: fix regression from prevent stuck rx-ring on slow system
This patch fixes a recently introduced use-after-free regression
from "p54pci: prevent stuck rx-ring on slow system".

Hans de Goede reported a use-after-free regression:
>BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6b6b
>IP: [<e122284a>] p54p_check_tx_ring+0x84/0xb1 [p54pci]
>*pde = 00000000
>Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>EIP: 0060:[<e122284a>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
>EIP is at p54p_check_tx_ring+0x84/0xb1 [p54pci]
>EAX: 6b6b6b6b EBX: df10b170 ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000001
>ESI: dc471500 EDI: d8acaeb0 EBP: c098be9c ESP: c098be84
> DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
>Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c098a000 task=c09ccfe0 task.ti=c098a000)
>Call Trace:
> [<e1222b02>] ? p54p_tasklet+0xaa/0xb5 [p54pci]
> [<c0440568>] ? tasklet_action+0x78/0xcb
> [<c0440ed3>] ? __do_softirq+0xbc/0x173

Quote from comment #17:
"The problem is the innocent looking moving of the tx processing to
 after the rx processing in the tasklet. Quoting from the changelog:
  This patch does it the same way, except that it also prioritize
  rx data processing, simply because tx routines *can* wait.

 This is causing an issue with us referencing already freed memory,
 because some skb's we transmit, we immediately receive back, such
 as those for reading the eeprom (*) and getting stats.

 What can happen because of the moving of the tx processing to after
 the rx processing is that when the tasklet first runs after doing a
 special skb tx (such as eeprom) we've already received the answer
 to it.

 Then the rx processing ends up calling p54_find_and_unlink_skb to
 find the matching tx skb for the just received special rx skb and
 frees the tx skb.

 Then after the processing of the rx skb answer, and thus freeing
 the tx skb, we go process the completed tx ring entires, and then
 dereference the free-ed skb, to see if it should free free-ed by
 p54p_check_tx_ring()."

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583623
Bug-Identified-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-26 14:21:15 -04:00
Hans de Goede 0250ececdf p54pci: fix bugs in p54p_check_tx_ring
Hans de Goede identified a bug in p54p_check_tx_ring:

there are two ring indices. 1 => tx data and 3 => tx management.
But the old code had a constant "1" and this resulted in spurious
dma unmapping failures.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583623
Bug-Identified-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-26 14:18:42 -04:00
John W. Linville 3b51cc996e Merge branch 'master' into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
2010-04-23 14:43:45 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 103823db62 p54pci: fix serious sparse warning
This patch fixes a bug which was just recently introduced by
("p54pci: prevent stuck rx-ring on slow system").

make M=drivers/net/wireless/p54 C=2 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__
  CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.c:143:11: warning: cast to restricted __le32
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.o

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-16 15:32:01 -04:00
John W. Linville 5c01d56693 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
2010-04-15 16:21:34 -04:00
Quintin Pitts 5988f385b4 p54pci: prevent stuck rx-ring on slow system
This patch fixes an old problem, which - under certain
circumstances - could cause the device to become
unresponsive.

most of p54pci's rx-ring management is implemented in just
two distinct standalone functions. p54p_check_rx_ring takes
care of processing incoming data, while p54p_refill_rx_ring
tries to replenish all depleted communication buffers.

This has always worked fine on my fast machine, but
now I know there is a hidden race...

The most likely candidate here is ring_control->device_idx.
Quintin Pitts had already analyzed the culprit and posted
a patch back in Oct 2009. But sadly, no one's picked up on this.
( https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/53079/ [2 & 3] ).
This patch does the same way, except that it also prioritize
rx data processing, simply because tx routines *can* wait.

Reported-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11386
Reported-by: Quintin Pitts <geek4linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quintin Pitts <geek4linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-12 15:22:10 -04:00