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Rajkumar Manoharan f60c49b67d ath9k: Fix kernel panic on module unload
The commit "ath9k: configure beacons based on hw opmode" introduced
a regression which leads to kernel panic. Failed to stop ani timer
during the driver unload while any of the beaconing vif is running.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12 16:58:43 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan 15b91e830d ath9k: Implement dev_tx_frames_pending callback.
This function returns true if there is atleast one frame
in any one of the tx queues.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12 16:57:34 -04:00
John W. Linville b37e3b6d64 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/efuse.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/fw_common.c
	net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
2011-04-07 16:45:40 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 99e4d43ad5 ath9k: configure beacons based on hw opmode
Current ath9k code does not handle beacon timers on opmode
specific. One such example is that a STA beacon config overwrites
already configured AP vif's beacon timers during scan.

On multi station vif case, configure beacon timers beased
on primary vif selected. This also helps while moving back
to single STA vif from multi STA vifs, where the power save
is enabled and hw has to be reconfigured with proper
beacon and bssid/aid. Otherwise connection poll will be triggered
so frequently due to beacon loss.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-07 15:49:40 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 4f5ef75b15 ath9k: Handle BSSID/AID for multiple interfaces
As of now bssid/aid is overridden with recently changed vif's
bss config. This may cause improper beacon updation due to
bssid/aid mismatch. On station mode, select an associated
sta vif as primary vif and configure that vif's bss into hw.
Update the primary vif on interface change and bss info change.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-07 15:34:15 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 66da424177 ath9k: Cleanup ath_vif struct
Remove unused bssid from ath_vif and set av_bslot on beacon
alloc/return.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-07 15:34:15 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 59575d1c71 ath9k: deny new interface addtion on IBSS mode
The present check denies the IBSS interface addtion if we
already have any other vifs. But it fails to deny interface
addition if IBSS was already present.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-07 15:34:15 -04:00
Jouni Malinen cfdc9a8bb8 ath9k: Support RSN IBSS
Add support for using RSN IBSS with ath9k. For now, this uses software
crypto for group addressed frames in RSN IBSS, but that may be
optimized in the future by extending the key cache design to support
per-STA RX GTK.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau f62d816fc4 ath9k: fix a chip wakeup related crash in ath9k_start
When the chip is still asleep when ath9k_start is called,
ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave can trigger a data bus error.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-28 15:42:01 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian d78f4b3e2c ath9k: Fix TX queue stuck issue.
commit 86271e460a introduced a
regression that caused mac80211 queues in stopped state.

ath_drain_all_txq is called in driver flush which would reset
the stopped flag and the mac80211 queues were never started
after that. iperf traffic is completely stalled due to this issue.

Restart the mac80211 queues in driver flush only if the txqs were
drained.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-23 15:22:05 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 86271e460a ath9k: fix the .flush driver op implementation
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-14 14:46:58 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 0cf55c21ec ath9k: use generic mac80211 LED blinking code
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-28 14:06:55 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 08f6c85223 ath9k: Fix compilation warning.
Initialize txq to avoid this warning:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c: In function ‘ath9k_flush’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:2138: warning: ‘txq’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:33:40 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 7e3514fdc0 ath9k: Cancel pll_work while disabling radio.
pll_work should be cancelled on full_sleep or it may cause
redundant chip reset.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:33:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg 7bb4568372 mac80211: make tx() operation return void
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:32:34 -05:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 69081624c7 ath9k: Implement op_flush()
When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-21 15:39:56 -05:00
John W. Linville b67afe7f43 Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.c
	drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
2011-02-18 17:03:41 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan 0f5cd45960 ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states
The DMA latency issue is observed only in Intel pinetrail platforms
but in the driver we had a default PM-QOS value of 55. This caused
unnecessary power consumption and battery drain in other platforms.

Remove the pm-qos thing in the driver code and address the throughput
issue in Intel pinetrail platfroms in user space using any one of
the scripts in below links:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/scripts/cpudmalatency.c
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/netlatency.c.txt

More details can be found in the following bugzilla link:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27532

This reverts the following commits:

	98c316e348
	4dc3530df7
	10598c124e

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-15 11:16:00 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 014cf3bb1e ath9k: disable beaconing before stopping beacon queue
Beaconing should be disabled before stopping beacon queue.
Not doing so could queue up beacons in hw that causes
failure to stop Tx DMA, due to pending frames in hw
and also unnecessary beacon tasklet schedule.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-14 15:51:20 -05:00
Steve Brown 9814f6b34b ath9k: Remove redundant beacon_interval
The variable appears in both ath_softc and ath_beacon_config.
The struct ath_beacon_config is embedded in ath_softc. The redundant
variable was added by commit id 57c4d7b4c4.

Signed-off-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-09 16:09:48 -05:00
Ben Greear 603b3eefb9 ath9k: Add debug info for configuring power level.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-09 16:09:47 -05:00
Ben Greear 8c79a61095 ath9k: Print channel-type in chan-change dbg message.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-09 16:09:44 -05:00
Felix Fietkau cb8d61de2d ath9k: add additional checks for the baseband hang detection
Since even with the latest changes the false positive issue of the baseband
hang check is not fully solved yet, additional checks are needed.
If the baseband hang occurs, the rx_clear signal will be stuck to high, so
we can use the cycle counters to confirm it.
With this patch, a hardware reset is only triggered if the baseband hang
check returned true three times in a row, with a beacon interval between
each check and if the busy time was also 99% or more during the check
intervals.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-04 16:29:52 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan 9cf04dcc9c ath9k: Fix possible double free of PAPRD skb's
This patch reverts the following commit
ath9k: remove bfs_paprd_timestamp from struct ath_buf_state

Under high interference/noisy environment conditions where PAPRD frames
fails heavily introduces a possibility of double freeing skb's and causes
kernel panic after some time.This patch reverts back to the original approach
of using paprd_timestamp before freeing the PAPRD frame skb's

[  194.193705] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D WC
2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu
[  194.193712] Call Trace:
[  194.193722]  [<c05c6468>] ? printk+0x2d/0x35
[  194.193732]  [<c05c63c3>] panic+0x5a/0xd2
[  194.193741]  [<c05ca3ed>] oops_end+0xcd/0xd0
[  194.193750]  [<c0105f74>] die+0x54/0x80
[  194.193758]  [<c05c9a16>] do_trap+0x96/0xc0
[  194.193837]  [<c0103fb0>] ? do_invalid_op+0x0/0xa0
[  194.193846]  [<c010403b>] do_invalid_op+0x8b/0xa0
[  194.193856]  [<c020bd4c>] ? kfree+0xec/0xf0
[  194.193866]  [<c012ce18>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
[  194.193877]  [<c01de47a>] ? free_one_page+0x12a/0x2d0
[  194.193888]  [<c01e04dc>] ? __free_pages+0x1c/0x40
[  194.193897]  [<c05c97a7>] error_code+0x73/0x78
[  194.193906]  [<c020bd4c>] ? kfree+0xec/0xf0
[  194.193915]  [<c04ecdd0>] ? skb_release_data+0x70/0xa0
[  194.193924]  [<c04ecdd0>] skb_release_data+0x70/0xa0
[  194.193933]  [<c04ec997>] __kfree_skb+0x17/0x90
[  194.193941]  [<c04eca31>] consume_skb+0x21/0x40
[  194.193964]  [<f85e0b70>] ieee80211_tx_status+0x760/0x860 [mac80211]
[  194.193979]  [<f85caddf>] ath_tx_complete_buf+0x1bf/0x2c0 [ath9k]
[  194.193988]  [<c05c8b9f>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
[  194.193997]  [<c04ec40e>] ? skb_queue_tail+0x3e/0x50
[  194.194010]  [<f85cc803>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x823/0x940 [ath9k]
[  194.194021]  [<c0108a28>] ? sched_clock+0x8/0x10
[  194.194030]  [<c016bf14>] ? sched_clock_local+0xa4/0x180
[  194.194040]  [<c0139f57>] ? enqueue_sleeper+0x1e7/0x2b0
[  194.194051]  [<c013a194>] ? enqueue_entity+0x174/0x200
[  194.194064]  [<f85ce83d>] ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x2bd/0x3b0 [ath9k]
[  194.194074]  [<c05c8b9f>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
[  194.194088]  [<f85c7b9f>] ath9k_tasklet+0x9f/0x190 [ath9k]
[  194.194097]  [<c01505d7>] tasklet_action+0xa7/0xb0
[  194.194107]  [<c015127c>] __do_softirq+0x9c/0x1b0
[  194.194117]  [<c01a7f64>] ? irq_to_desc+0x14/0x20
[  194.194126]  [<c0124fc4>] ? ack_apic_level+0x64/0x1f0
[  194.194136]  [<c01513d5>] do_softirq+0x45/0x50
[  194.194145]  [<c0151545>] irq_exit+0x65/0x70
[  194.194153]  [<c05cf665>] do_IRQ+0x55/0xc0
[  194.194162]  [<c016a6c7>] ? hrtimer_start+0x27/0x30
[  194.194171]  [<c0103630>] common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[  194.194181]  [<c012c21a>] ? native_safe_halt+0xa/0x10
[  194.194268]  [<c010a2f9>] default_idle+0x49/0xb0
[  194.194277]  [<c0101fcc>] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xd0
[  194.194286]  [<c05b2431>] rest_init+0x71/0x80
[  194.194295]  [<c081981a>] start_kernel+0x36e/0x374
[  194.194305]  [<c08199dd>] ? pass_all_bootoptions+0x0/0xa
[  194.194314]  [<c08190d7>] i386_start_kernel+0xd7/0xdf
[  194.194364] panic occurred, switching back to text console

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-04 16:11:39 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 391bd1c443 ath9k: reserve a beacon slot on beaconing vif addition
The beaconing vif addition is based on max beacon slot
available. So it is better to reserve a beacon slot
on interface addition and let it be configured properly
on bss_info change.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03 16:45:29 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 4c89fe954d ath9k: do not access hw registers in FULL SLEEP
The opmode recalculation is accessing hw registers.
When it is called from remove interface callback and
if there are no vifs present then hw is moved to FULL SLEEP
by radio disable. So use power save wrappers before
accessing hw registers in calculating opmode state.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03 16:44:43 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 5048e8c378 ath9k: move update tx power to common
move ath_update_txpow to common to remove code duplication
in both ath9k & ath9k_htc.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03 16:44:43 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan c344c9cb01 ath9k: use common get current channel function
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03 16:44:43 -05:00
John W. Linville fa9a741b84 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c
2011-02-01 12:01:27 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan 479600777b ath9k: Fix memory leak due to failed PAPRD frames
free the skb's when the Tx of PAPRD frames fails and also add a debug
message indicating that.

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-01 11:06:00 -05:00
John W. Linville 3e11210d46 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
2011-01-28 16:23:14 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan de87f736e3 ath9k: use common API to avoid code duplication
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:46:23 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 181fb18daa ath9k: Fix a PLL hang issue observed with AR9485.
When this PLL hang issue is seen, both Rx and Tx fail to work.
The sqsum_dvc needs to be below 2000 for a good chip. During
this issue the sqsum_dvc value is beyond 80000 and only a
full reset can solve this problem.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:44:28 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 0d95521ea7 ath9k: use split rx buffers to get rid of order-1 skb allocations
With this change, less CPU time is spent trying to look for consecutive
pages for rx skbs. This also reduces the socket memory required for IP/UDP
reassembly.
Only two buffers per frame are supported. Frames spanning more buffers
will be dropped, but the buffer size is enough to handle the required
AMSDU size.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:44:28 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 9ac58615d9 ath9k: fold struct ath_wiphy into struct ath_softc
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:42:00 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 7545daf498 ath9k: remove support for virtual wiphys
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:41:59 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 9246041236 ath9k: clean up the code that wakes the mac80211 queues
Instead of spreading ath_wake_mac80211_queue() calls over multiple places
in the tx path that process the tx queue for completion, call it only
where the pending frames counter gets decremented, eliminating some
redundant checks.
To prevent queue draining from waking the queues prematurely (e.g. during
a hardware reset), reset the queue stop state when draining all queues,
as the caller in main.c will run ieee80211_wake_queues(hw) anyway.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:39:40 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan c7c1806098 ath9k: Fix power save usage count imbalance on deinit
While unloading the driver, the ps_usecount is incremented
before configuring gpio registers in deinit_device.
But it is failed to restore the ps_usecount after that.
The problem is that the chip is forcibly moved to FULL SLEEP
by radio_disable when mac80211 is reporting as idle
though ps_usecount is not zero.

This patch retores ps_usecount properly and ensures that
the chip is always moved to full sleep only if ps usage
count is zero which also helps in debugging deadbeef on
multivif case. And also fixes the following warning.

ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0xdeadbeef AR_DIAG_SW=0xdeadbeef
ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we
start RX up
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:536
ath_stoprecv+0xf4/0x100 [ath9k]()

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-28 15:27:20 -05:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 203043f579 ath9k: fix race conditions when stop device
We do not kill any scheduled tasklets when stopping device, that may
cause usage of resources after free. Moreover we enable interrupts
in tasklet function, so we could potentially end with interrupts
enabled when driver is not ready to receive them.

I think patch should fix Ben's kernel crash from:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129438358921501&w=2

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-27 16:41:08 -05:00
Ben Greear 7f010c93d7 ath9k: Keep track of stations for debugfs.
The stations hold the ath_node, which holds the tid
and other xmit logic structures.  In order to debug
stuck xmit logic, we need a way to print out the tid
state for the stations.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-21 15:32:22 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 783cd01e14 ath9k: add missing ps wakeup/restore calls
There are several places where ath_reset() was called without proper
calls to ath9k_ps_wakeup/ath9k_ps_restore. To fix this, add those calls
directly to ath_reset and drop them from callers where it makes sense.

Also add them to the config callback around ath_update_txpow to fix a
crash that happens when the tx power changed before any vif is brought up.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-21 15:07:37 -05:00
Johannes Berg 0b01f030d3 mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer size
The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the
buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max
buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as
the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0
instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it
isn't possible to honour this request.

In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the
addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to
the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called
with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That
way the driver can limit the number of subframes in
aggregates appropriately.

Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the
addition of the new argument -- they all need to be
updated separately to use this variable!

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19 11:36:11 -05:00
Ben Greear 4801416c76 ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs.
When using a mixture of AP and Station interfaces,
the hardware mode was using the type of the
last VIF registered.  Instead, we should keep track
of the number of different types of vifs and set the
mode accordingly.

In addtion, use the vif type instead of hardware opmode
when dealing with beacons.

Attempt to move some of the common setup code into smaller
methods so we can re-use it when changing vif mode as
well as adding/deleting vifs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19 11:36:11 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 8b3f4616d4 ath9k: reduce the likelihood of baseband hang check false positives
Since baseband hangs are rare, but the hang check function has a high
false positive rate in some situations, we need to add more reliable
indicators.

In AP mode we can use blocked beacon transmissions as an indicator,
they should be rare enough.

In station mode, we can skip the hang check entirely, since a true
hang will trigger beacon loss detection, and mac80211 will rescan,
which leads to a hw reset that will bring the hardware back to life.

To make this more reliable, we need to skip fast channel changes
if the hardware appears to be stuck.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19 11:36:08 -05:00
John W. Linville 3e6109c574 ath9k: qualify global modparam_nohwcrypt variable
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-05 14:36:27 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan 1186488b4a ath9k: fix beacon restart on channel change
Restart the beacon timers only if the beacon
was already configured. Otherwise beacons timers
are restarted unnecessarily in unassociated state too.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-04 14:43:01 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 52671e43db ath9k: spin_lock_bh is not required within tasklet context.
Disabling BH is not required while running from a tasklet context
and so replace spin_lock_bh with just spin_lock.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-04 14:35:11 -05:00
Dan Carpenter 6dab55bf7e ath9k: unlock on error path in ath9k_change_interface()
There is a missing unlock when we hit the "No beacon slot available"
error condition.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-22 15:43:27 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez afe68d0a8f ath9k: fix aphy / wiphy idle mismatch
ath9k supports its own set of virtual wiphys, and it uses
the mac80211 idle notifications to know when a device needs
to be idle or not. We recently changed ath9k to force idle
on driver stop() and on resume but forgot to take into account
ath9k's own virtual wiphy idle states. These are used internally
by ath9k to check if the device's radio should be powered down
on each idle call. Without this change its possible that the
device could have been forced off but the virtual wiphy idle
was left on.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-22 15:43:25 -05:00
Felix Fietkau d4d5dc3d6f ath9k: do not limit the chainmask to 1 for legacy mode
Restricting the chainmask to 1 for legacy mode disables useful features
such as MRC, and it reduces the available transmit power.
I can't think of a good reason to do this in legacy mode, so let's just
get rid of that code.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:52:18 -05:00