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314 Commits

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Felix Fietkau f5bde5b852 ath9k: remove ath9k_sta_remove_debugfs
mac80211 uses debugfs_remove_recursive, so there's no need for the
driver to do an explicit cleanup of its sta debugfs entry.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-15 16:07:57 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 50676b8111 ath9k: shrink a few data structures by reordering fields
Also reduce the size of a few fields where possible

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-15 16:07:57 -04:00
Felix Fietkau e96542e55a ath9k: fix rx descriptor related race condition
Similar to a race condition that exists in the tx path, the hardware
might re-read the 'next' pointer of a descriptor of the last completed
frame. This only affects non-EDMA (pre-AR93xx) devices.

To deal with this race, defer clearing and re-linking a completed rx
descriptor until the next one has been processed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-15 16:07:56 -04:00
Felix Fietkau f89d1bc427 ath9k: use software queueing for multicast traffic
Create a per-vif dummy node entry for keeping the multicast software
queues. This helps in setups with a lot of mulitcast traffic that could
otherwise potentially drown out unicast traffic to stations.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-09 15:58:24 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 2800e82bcc ath9k: use software queues for un-aggregated data packets
This is a first step for improving fairness between legacy and 802.11n
traffic, and it should also improve reliability of resets and channel
changes by keeping the hardware queue depth very short.

When an aggregation session is torn down, all packets in the retry queue
will be removed from the BAW and freed.

For all subframes that have not been transmitted yet, the A-MPDU flag
will be cleared, and a sequence number allocated. This ensures that the
next A-MPDU session will get the correct initial sequence number.
This happens both on aggregation session start and stop.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-09 15:58:20 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 8fed140855 ath9k: fix block ack window tracking check
When a packet has been tracked as part of the BlockAck window and added
to the hardware queue, it can end up back in the TID queue again with
fi->retries still set to 0 (e.g. if the frame was filtered). Keep an
extra bit for the BAW tracking status to fix this corner case.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-09 15:58:11 -04:00
Felix Fietkau a1cd94d345 ath9k: simplify ath_tx_form_aggr
The check for ATH_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT is unnecessary, since it's set
to half the maximum BlockAck Window size, which is already the maximum
value that h_baw could possibly have. Also remove unnecessary variables.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-09 15:58:09 -04:00
Felix Fietkau bb195ff61f ath9k: split tid retry packets into a separate queue
Improves packet retry order and helps with further tx queueing
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-09 15:58:02 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 047dc3ac88 ath9k: Remove ath_ant_comb_update()
During a HW reset, the diversity config is programmed
in the set_board_values() eeprom callback, there is no
need to do it again by calling ath_ant_comb_update().

Fixed antenna support is not fully handled for 1-stream
cards, it can be done later.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-05 14:52:45 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 3f2da95517 ath9k: Add a HW capability for WLAN/BT RX diversity
Make use of this capability to restrict the usage of the
debugfs file and modparam using which this feature can
be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-05 14:52:42 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 3afa6b4f54 ath9k: Fix antenna diversity for CUS198
CUS198/CUS230 need a few tweaks in the antenna diversity
algorithm to accomodate RSSI variation. Add a couple
of knobs to control low RSSI threshold and fast antenna
diversity bias values.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-05 14:52:41 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 3fbaf4c55b ath9k: Do a quick scan only when scan_not_start is true
Right now, it is being done for all cases.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-08-01 15:52:04 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan c2b8359d78 ath9k: Fix diversity combining for AR9285
When antenna diversity combining is enabled in the EEPROM,
the initial values for the MAIN/ALT config have to be
programmed correctly. This patch adds it for AR9285.

Since the diversity combining macros are common to all chip
families, remove the redundant AR9285 macros and move the
definitions to phy.h.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-07-24 11:02:39 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan fca3c21d56 ath9k: Enable WoW only for supported models
Since platform support is required for WoW, identify and
and enable Wow only for supported cards.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-24 14:44:24 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 12eea64003 ath9k: Add PCI IDs for CUS217
CUS217 is a card based on AR9462.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-18 14:46:47 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan e861ef523c ath9k: Modify IDs to identify CUS230
CUS198 and CUS230 are similar cards, both
are AR9485 + xLNA solutions. But, the subsystem IDs
differ - identify CUS230 explicitly to make things
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-18 14:46:46 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 9b60b64bfe ath9k: Add custom parameters for CUS198
CUS198 is a card based on AR9485. There are differences
between the base reference design HB125 and CUS198.
Identify such cards based on the PCI subsystem IDs and
set HW parameters appropriately.

Addresses this bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49201

Cc: jkp@iki.fi
Cc: gfmichaud@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-14 13:37:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 59505c02e1 ath9k: limit multicast buffer hardware queue depth
The CAB (Content after Beacon) queue is used for beacon-triggered
transmission of buffered multicast frames. If lots of multicast frames
were buffered and this queue fills up, it drowns out all regular
traffic. To limit the damage that buffered traffic can do, try to limit
the queued data to becaon_interval / 8.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-12 15:06:49 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 86a22acfcb ath9k: implement support for .release_buffered_frames()
This adds support for PS-Poll and U-APSD driver-buffered frames (part of
an aggregation session).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-12 15:06:49 -04:00
Felix Fietkau f2c7a79337 ath9k: add support for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_PS_RESPONSE
Use the UAPSD hardware queue to get PS-Poll responses out as fast as
possible and without backoff.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-06-12 15:06:49 -04:00
John W. Linville 861bca265e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
	net/mac80211/iface.c
2013-06-12 14:35:23 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 73900cb068 ath9k: Use bitops for scan flag
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-05-22 15:05:32 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 08c96abd61 ath9k: prevent aggregation session deadlocks
Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
caused by this behavior have been observed.

Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
in the A-MPDU software retry code.

This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-05-22 14:28:44 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 16e2342802 ath9k: fix aggregation stop/flush handling
When aggregation stop is requested, don't run the mac80211 aggregation
stop callback yet, while the session is still blocked.
Also, when aggregation flush is requested, don't run the callback at all.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-05-17 14:31:08 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 79acac0708 ath9k: add support for the new rate control API
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-04-23 14:14:53 -04:00
Felix Fietkau ab11bb28fb ath9k: always set common->macaddr to the MAC adress of a virtual interface
In some cases it can be useful to change the MAC address of a virtual
interface to something that's completely different from the EEPROM
stored MAC address. In this case it is a bad idea to use the EEPROM MAC
address for calculating the BSSID mask, as that would make it too wide.

In one case a few devices have been observed to send ACKs for many
packets on the channel not directed at them, which results in a neat
Denial of Service attack on the channel.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-04-22 15:20:15 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 723e711356 ath9k: fix handling of broken descriptors
As the comment in ath_get_next_rx_buf indicates, if a descriptor with
the done bit set follows one with the done bit cleared, both descriptors
should be discarded, however the driver is not doing that yet.

To fix this, use the rs->rs_more flag as an indicator that the following
frame should be discarded. This also helps with the split buffer case:
if the first part of the frame is discarded, the following parts need to
be discarded as well, since they contain no valid header or usable data.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-04-10 14:10:33 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 1a6404a1d8 ath9k: Fix IBSS joiner mode
On joining an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start
only after a TSF sync has happened by receiving a beacon from
the BSS. In creator mode, beaconing can start immediately after
a HW reset has been done.

Now that mac80211 notifies the driver of the mode type (creator/joiner)
via ieee80211_bss_conf->ibss_creator, make use of it to properly setup
the HW beacon timers.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-02-11 15:34:56 -05:00
Sven Eckelmann 1282437409 ath9k: Fix sparse __CHECK_ENDIAN__ for spectral code
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-02-01 14:27:24 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 21fbbca337 ath9k: report A-MPDU status
The ath9k hardware reports whenever an frame was part
of an A-MPDU. MAC80211 already provides the necessary
API to pass this additional information along to
whomever needs it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-02-01 14:27:22 -05:00
Sven Eckelmann 4ab0b0aa57 ath9k: Update spectral scan output data
The sample data received through the spectral scan can be either in big or
little endian byteorder. This information isn't stored in the output file.
Therefore it is not possible for the analyzer software to find the correct byte
order.

It is relative common to get the data from a low end AP in big endian mode and
transfer it to another computer in little endian mode to analyze it. Therefore,
it would be better to store it in network (big endian) byte order.

The extension of the 8 bit bins for each bin to 16 bit is not necessary. This
operation can be done in userspace or on a different machine. Instead the
max_exp defining the amount of shifting required for each bin is exported to
userspace.

The change of the output format requires a change of the type in the sample
tlv to allow the userspace program to correctly detect the bin format.

Reported-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com>
[siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de: squashed patches, update commit message, rebase, fix endianess bug]
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-30 15:06:42 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich 04ccd4a1a6 ath9k: add debug parameters for spectral scan
Export the various parameters to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-30 15:06:40 -05:00
John W. Linville 9ebea3829f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c
2013-01-28 13:54:03 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 1381559ba4 ath9k: clean up processing of pending tx frames on reset
Dropping packets from aggregation sessions is usually not a good idea, as
it might upset the synchronization of the BlockAck receive window of the
remote node. The use of the retry_tx parameter to reset/tx-drain functions
also seemed a bit arbitrary.
This patch removes this parameter altogether and ensures that pending tx
frames are not dropped for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-22 16:03:21 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 463e3ed3ea ath9k: remove sc->rx.rxbuflock to fix a deadlock
The commit "ath9k: fix rx flush handling" added a deadlock that happens
because ath_rx_tasklet is called in a section that has already taken the
rx buffer lock.

It seems that the only purpose of the rxbuflock was a band-aid fix to the
reset vs rx tasklet race, which has been properly fixed in the commit
"ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race".

Now that the fix is in, we can safely remove the lock to avoid such issues.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-14 15:02:21 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 4b883f021b ath9k: fix rx flush handling
Right now the rx flush is not doing anything useful on AR9003+, as it only
works if the buffers in the rx FIFO have not been purged yet, as is done
by ath_stoprecv.

To fix this, always call ath_flushrecv from within ath_stoprecv before
the FIFO is emptied, but still after the hw receive path has been stopped.

This ensures that frames received (and ACKed by the hardware) shortly before
a reset will be seen by the software, which should improve A-MPDU session
stability.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-11 14:12:02 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 7fc00a3054 ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race
Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset path.
Also remove the distinction between flush and no-flush frame processing.
If a frame has been received and ACKed by the hardware, the stack needs to see
it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-11 14:12:02 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich e93d083f42 ath9k: add spectral scan feature
Adds the spectral scan feature for ath9k. AR92xx and AR93xx chips
are supported for now. The spectral scan is triggered by configuring
a mode through a debugfs control file. Samples can be gathered via
another relay debugfs file.

Essentially, to try it out:

echo chanscan > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl
iw dev wlan0 scan
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan0 > samples
echo disable > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl

This feature is still experimental.

The special "chanscan" mode is used to perform spectral scan while
mac80211 is scanning for channels. To allow this,
sw_scan_start/complete() ops have been added.

The patch contains code snippets and information from Zefir Kurtisi and
information provided by Adrian Chadd and Felix Fietkau.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-09 14:37:12 -05:00
Felix Fietkau b81950b165 ath9k: use the devres API for allocations/mappings
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-01-07 15:16:51 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan a145daf7f0 ath9k: Implement sta_add_debugfs/sta_remove_debugfs
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-30 13:38:15 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan de7b7604ea ath9k: Replace WME_NUM_TID with IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-30 13:38:15 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan 580bdac386 ath9k: Remove 'stations' debugfs file
The 'stations' debugfs file has multiple issues. It doesn't scale
to an arbitrary number of associated stations and allocating
64K is not elegant either. Now that changes have been made in
mac80211 to support dynamic creation/deletion of driver-specific
debugfs files on station addition/removal, remove this file and
make use of the mac80211 hooks (which will be done in a sebsequent
patch).

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-21 14:16:04 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan 78ef731ce5 ath9k: Fix the 'xmit' debugfs file
The 'xmit' debugfs file has become big and unwieldy, fix
multiple issues with its usage:

* Store TX counters/statistics only for the 4 Access Categories.
  Use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead of ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES.

* Move various utility macros to debug.h, they can be reused
  elsewhere.

* Remove tx_complete_poll_work_seen.

* Remove code that accesses various internal queue-specific
  variables without any locking whatsoever. HW/SW queue details
  will be handled in a subsequent patch.

* Do not print internal values like txq_headidx and txq_headidx.
  They were mostly unused anyway, considering code like:
  PRX("txq_tailidx:     ", txq_headidx);

* Handle 'txprocdesc' for EDMA too.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-21 14:16:03 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan bea843c738 ath9k/ath9k_htc: Remove WME macros
Use the macros provided by mac80211 and remove redundant
declarations inside the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-21 14:16:02 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 2884561a64 ath9k: stomp audio profiles on weak signal strength
On lower WLAN signal strength, WLAN downlink traffic might suffer
from retransmissions. At the mean time, playing SCO/A2DP profiles
is affecting WLAN stability. In such scenario, by stomping SCO/A2DP
BT traffic completely for a BTCOEX period, gives WLAN traffic an
oppertunity to recover PHY rate. It also improves WLAN stability at
lower RSSI without sacificing BT traffic.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-21 14:16:01 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan ac46ba4384 ath9k: Fix BTCOEX debugfs file usage
The debugfs file for dumping btcoex parameters unconditionally
assumes a MCI-based device. This will not work for older btcoex
chips. Fix this by branching out the routine into separate
functions.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-19 10:45:40 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 4df50ca869 ath9k: Dump BTCOEX tuning parameters
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-29 15:30:35 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan e82cb03f5a ath9k: adjust WLAN and BT concurrent transmission
The simulataneous transmission of both WLAN and BT might cause
increase in power levels. To avoid regulatory violation, WLAN tx
power will be adjusted according to BT power index based on avaliability
of BT scheduling messages. WLAN tx power reduction might affect its
performance. So WLAN tx power is only be lowered when the signal strength
is good enough. Otherwise concurrent tx will be disabled and WLAN uses
it default power levels. Also concurrent tx is disabled whenever WLAN is
moving to off-channel which might be used by BT.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-29 15:19:27 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 424749c75d ath9k: perform ANI cycle in idle state
As of now the ANI cycle is executed only when the chip is awake.
On idle state case, the station wakes up from network sleep for
beacon reception. Since most of the time, ANI cycle is not syncing
with beacon wakeup, ANI cycle is ignored. Approx 5 mins once, the
calibration is performed. This could affect the connection stability
when the station is idle for long. Even though the OFDM and CCK phy
error rates are too high, ANI is unable to tune its immunity level
as quick enough due to rare execution.

Here the experiment shows that OFDM and CCK levels are at default
even on higher phy error rate.

listenTime=44 OFDM:3 errs=121977/s CCK:2 errs=440818/s ofdm_turn=1

This change ensures that ANI calibration will be exectued atleast
once for every 10 seconds. The below result shows improvements and
immunity levels are adopted quick enough.

listenTime=557 OFDM:4 errs=752/s CCK:4 errs=125/s ofdm_turn=0

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-19 16:16:14 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan 365d2ebcab ath9k: Fix chainmask selection for AR9462
Force chain 1 to be used for CCK rates since the target power
table stored in EEPROM is too high to transmit with both chains.
This is needed to avoid regulatory violation.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-28 13:54:06 -04:00