Attempting to read registers that don't exist on the SSB bus can cause
hangs on some boxes. At least some b43 devices are 'in the wild' that
don't have SPROMs at all. When the SSB bus support loads, it attempts
to read these (non-existant) SPROMs and causes hard hangs on the box --
no console output, etc.
This patch adds some intelligence to determine whether or not the SPROM
is present before attempting to read it. This avoids those hard hangs
on those devices with no SPROM attached to their SSB bus. The
SSB-attached devices (e.g. b43, et al.) won't work, but at least the box
will survive to test further patches. :-)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
The range check in the sprom image parser hex2sprom() is broken.
One sprom word is 4 hex characters.
This fixes the check and also adds much better sanity checks to the code.
We better make sure the image is OK by doing some sanity checks to avoid
bricking the device by accident.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The SPROM writing routines were broken since we rewrote the suspend
handling on wireless devices, because SPROM writing depended on suspend.
This patch changes it and freezes devices with the driver remove(), probe()
callbacks instead. This also simplifies the whole logics a lot.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds SSB functionality to register a fallback SPROM image from the
architecture setup code.
Weird architectures exist that have half-assed SSB devices without SPROM attached to
their PCI busses. The architecture can register a fallback SPROM image that is
used if no SPROM is found on the SSB device.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for reading/writing the SPROM invariants
for PCMCIA based devices.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville