There are a few cases like the WoWLAN support
I'm writing that require attempting to access
the NIC when it is known that it might not be
accessible, e.g. after the system woke up and
the platform might have reset the device.
To avoid messages in this case, introduce the
new function iwl_grab_nic_access_silent(), it
will only return an error status.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The current code to read the error table header
just hardcodes all the offsets, which is a bit
hard to understand. We can read in the entire
header (as much as we need) into a structure,
and then take the data from there, which makes
it easier to understand. To read a bigger blob
we also don't need to grab NIC access for each
word read, making the code more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
This generates a massive reduction in module size:
with debug:
text data bss dec hex filename
670300 13136 420 683856 a6f50 iwlagn.ko (before)
388347 13136 408 401891 621e3 iwlagn.ko (after)
without debug:
text data bss dec hex filename
528575 13072 420 542067 84573 iwlagn.ko (before)
294192 13072 408 307672 4b1d8 iwlagn.ko (after)
This also removes all the IO debug functionality since
it can easily be replaced by tracing, and makes the
code unnecessarily complex.
I haven't done any CPU utilisation measurements, but
given that the hotpaths don't use much IO it is not
likely to have a negative impact; in fact, the size
reduction will reduce cache pressure which possibly
improves performance.
Finally, an unused function or two were removed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg