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Abhijeet Kolekar
d68b603cf0 iwlwifi/iwl3945 : unify apm stop operation
Unify the usage of apm_stop_master and apm_stop
across all hardwares.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e932a609e9 iwlwifi: LED cleanup
The iwlwifi drivers have LED blinking requirements that
mac80211 cannot fulfill due to the use of just a single
LED instead of different ones for TX, RX, radio etc.
Instead, the single LED blinks according to transfers
and is solid on the rest of the time. As such, having
LED class devices registered that mac80211 triggers are
connected to is pointless as we don't use the triggers
anyway.

Remove all the useless code and add hooks into the
driver itself. At the same time, make the LED code
abstracted so the core code that determines blink rate
etc. can be shared between 3945 and agn in iwlcore.

At the same time, the fact that we removed the use of
the mac80211 LED triggers means we can also remove the
IWLWIFI_LEDS Kconfig symbol since the LED support is
now self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
be1a71a128 iwlwifi: device tracing
In order to have an easier way to debug issues, create
trace events (using the ftrace framework) that will
allow us to follow exactly what the driver is doing
with the device.

The text format isn't all that useful, but the binary
format can also be obtained easily via debugfs and
then analysed on the fly or offline with debugging
tools.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4d80d7210b iwlwifi: set default aggregation frame count limit to 31
Multiple MPDUs can be aggregated, transmitted, and finally acknowledged
together using a single BA frame. Block ACK (BA) contains
bitmap size of 64*16 bits so the maximum frame count is 64.
The default value of aggregation frame count suggested by uCode is 31 to
achieve best performance.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Huaxu Wan
39d5e0ce0f iwlwifi: clear the translate table area
Driver should clear the translate table area after receiving "Alive"
response from uCode. This patch corrects a mistake when doing this.

Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Chaohong <chaohong.guo@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ben M Cahill  <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
72f0ebd9e0 iwlwifi: change valid EEPROM version for 1000 series
In order to support different type of 1000 series NICs we release to
customers before the production release, iwlwifi driver need to support
all the NICs has EEPROM version greater than 0x15c.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
7812b16730 iwlwifi: reliable entering of critical temperature state
When uCode detects critical temperature it should send "card state
notification" interrupt to driver and then shut itself down to prevent
overheating. There is a race condition where uCode shuts down before it
can deliver the interrupt to driver.
Additional method provided here for driver to enter CT_KILL state based
on temperature reading.

How it works:
Method 1:
If driver receive "card state notification" interrupt from uCode; it
enters "CT_KILL" state immediately

Method 2:
If the last temperature report by Card reach Critical temperature,
driver will send "statistic notification" request to uCode to verify the
temperature reading, if driver can not get reply from uCode within
300ms, driver will enter CT_KILL state automatically.

Method 3:
If the last temperature report by Card did not reach Critical
temperature, but uCode already shut down due to critical temperature.
All the host commands send to uCode will not get process by uCode;
when command queue reach the limit, driver will check the last reported
temperature reading, if it is within pre-defined margin, enter "CT_KILL"
state immediately. In this case, when uCode ready to exit from "CT_KILL" state,
driver need to restart the adapter in order to reset all the queues and
resume normal operation.

One additional issue being address here, when system is in CT_KILL
state, both tx and rx already stopped, but driver still can send host
command to uCode, it will flood the command queue since card was not
responding; adding STATUS_CT_KILL flag to reject enqueue host commands
to uCode if it is in CT_KILL state, when uCode is ready to come out of
CT_KILL, driver will clear  the STATUS_CT_KILL bit and allow enqueue the host
commands to uCode to recover from CT_KILL state.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Kalle Valo
ffe9793252 wl1251: remove wl1251_netlink.h
The file was accidentally added in commit ef2f8d4577 ("wl1251: add
wl1251 prefix to all 1251 files"). This happened when I rebased the
patches from a private tree.

Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00
Amitkumar Karwar
4912545472 libertas: Add auto deep sleep support for SD8385/SD8686/SD8688
Add timer based auto deep sleep feature in libertas driver which can be
configured using iwconfig command. This is tested on SD8688, SD8686 cards
with firmware versions 10.38.1.p25, 9.70.4.p0 respectively on 32-bit and 64-bit
platforms. Tests have been done for USB/CS cards to make sure that the patch
won't break USB/CS code. We didn't test the if_spi driver.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00
Larry Finger
125b181aec staging: Add proper selection of WIRELESS_EXT and WEXT_PRIV
After the incorporation of the patch entitled "wext: refactor", some
of the wireless drivers in drivers/staging fail to build because they
need to have CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV defined.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3d23e349d8 wext: refactor
Refactor wext to
 * split out iwpriv handling
 * split out iwspy handling
 * split out procfs support
 * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code
   w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT

After this, drivers need to
 - select WIRELESS_EXT	- for wext support
 - select WEXT_PRIV	- for iwpriv support
 - select WEXT_SPY	- for iwspy support

except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c
and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT.

Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected
based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core
(i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
bc974f4a23 atheros: define a common priv struct
hw code should never use private driver data, but
sometimes we need a backpointer so just stuff it on
the common ath struct.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:42 -04:00
Holger Schurig
7c89606e24 nl80211: report age of scan results
Linux keeps scan results up to 15 seconds. This can be a problem for fast
moving clients: they get back stale data. But if the kernel reports the age
of the BSS items, then user-space can simply weed out old entries by itself.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:42 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
7976b4263c ath9k_hw: add AR9271 srev and device ID to allow hw to support ar9271
This allows for hw support to be enabled for ar9271.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:42 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
3ca340381a ath9k_hw: print device ID if not supported
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:42 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
7322fd1929 ath9k: move hw code to its own module
hw code for Atheros 802.11n hardware is commmon between
different chipsets. This moves this code into a separate
module, the next expected user of this code will be
the ath9k_htc module.

The ath9k/ dir is now selected by ATH9K_HW, an option which
gets selected by either ath9k or ath9k_htc, but remains
invisible for user menuconfig configuration. If either
ath9k or ath9k_htc will be compiled into the kernel
ath9k_hw will also be compiled in.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:41 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
475a6e4d39 ath9k: use common read/write ops on pci and debug code
PCI and debug code will not be shared between ath9k and
ath9k_htc, so make that code use the common read/write ops.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:41 -04:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
bdcf8ff3dd b43: Comment unused functions lpphy_restore_dig_flt_state and lpphy_disable_rx_gain_override
Commenting unused functions lpphy_restore_dig_flt_state and
lpphy_disable_rx_gain_override, may be we need these functions in future.

This also fixed following compilation warnings :
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_lp.o
drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_lp.c:383: warning: ‘lpphy_restore_dig_flt_state’ defined but not used
drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_lp.c:891: warning: ‘lpphy_disable_rx_gain_override’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:41 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
c099752ae0 iwlwifi: drop lib80211 dependency
Ever since Johannes' "iwlwifi: improve scan support" iwlwifi
no longer needs any of lib80211's functions or definitions.

This patch updates iwlwifi's Kconfig _selections_ and
removes all left lib80211.h inclusions from the source files.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
e41f0bfcb1 ath9k: Fix bugs in handling TX power
* Get power table offset from the EEPROM instead of using
  a hardcoded value of -5 if the EEPROM rev is >= 21.
* Add support in the 4k eeprom code for tx power offset
  in case we have a 4k AR9280 implementation.
* Fix tx power accuracy at high powers.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
ebb90cfc32 ath9k: Advertise midband for AR5416 devices
This has to be done if the EEPROM supports FCC Midband
capability.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
63a75b912b ath9k: Reduce PLL Settle time and eliminate redundant PLL calls.
Reduce PLL Settle time and eliminate redundant PLL calls. Also reduce
the LoadNF timeout from 10 msec to 250usec as the 10 msec timeout was
hit with AR9285 in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
1d50a69b18 ath9k: Handle ATH9K_BEACON_RESET_TSF properly
Clearing a local variable is unnecessary.
Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
66afad0156 ath9k: Allow PSPOLL only when the interface is configured in AP mode
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:39 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
7aa0349283 ath9k: Update initvals
* Move 0xa274 and 0xa27c to the top of tx_gain table.
* Update initvals to fix random failure of noise floor calibration.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:39 -04:00
Sujith
4921be8058 ath9k: Fix RTC reset for AR5416
For AR5416 chipsets, clearing RTC_RESET_EN when setting
the chip to SLEEP mode results in high power consumption.
This patch fixes this issue by not clearing it for AR5416.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:39 -04:00
Sujith
193cd4585e ath9k: Update INI release for AR9287
If the current channel is between 2412 and 2472 MHz and if the channel is
changing to 2484 MHz, then the registers 0xa1f4, 0xa1f8 and 0xa1fc need to be
programmed to the "japan_2484" values.  Conversely, if the current channel
is 2484 MHz and if the channel is changing to one between 2412 and 2472 MHz, then
the three registers need to be programmed to the "normal" values.

This is needed for compliance with Japanese regulatory requirements.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:38 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan
0b98eaaa02 ath9k: Add Calibration checks
* Prevent divide-by-zero errors in IQ Calibration.
* Do not run temperature compensation if initPDADC or currPDADC is zero.
* Also, introduce a separate function for handling OLC for AR9287.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:38 -04:00
Joerg Albert
181af38703 ar9170: handle overflow in tsf_low register during get_tsf
ar9170_op_get_tsf: handle a carry from TSF_L into TSF_H
by reading TSF_H twice.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:38 -04:00
Joerg Albert
7c52c07de8 ar9170: add heavy clip handling
add heavy clip handling for 2.4GHz only (similar to the vendor driver).

Signed-off-by: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:38 -04:00
Joerg Albert
90f2908d32 ar9170: fixed coding style, moved define
This patch fixes some coding style issues and moves MAX_RATE_POWER into hw.h

Signed-off-by: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:38 -04:00
Huaxu Wan
9554b34ad5 iwlwifi: add module firmware info for 1000 series
The module firmware information of 1000 series is missing from iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
78f5fb7fc6 iwlwifi: support idle for 6000 series hw
Using powersave while idle saves a lot of power, but
we've had problems with this on some cards (5150 has
been reported to be problematic). However, on the new
6000 series we're seeing no problems, so for now let
that hardware benefit from idle mode, we can look at
the problems with other hardware one by one and then
enable those once we figure out the problems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:36 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d8c07e7a84 iwlwifi: Chain Noise Calibration for 6000 series
Adding support of Chain Noise Calibration for 6000 series NICs.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2b396a1209 iwlwifi: default to using all chains
When instructing the microcode to use just a single
chain when we have power saving enabled, we should
also tell the AP that we are doing SM powersave.
However, using a single chain doesn't actually have
any power saving advantage while idle -- measurements
show that the power consumption is no different when
using one vs. two or three chains.

Therefore, always instruct the microcode to use all
chains.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9bddbab36d iwlwifi: fix a typo
We never have four chains, but let's fix the typo
while we noticed it. You count 0, 1, 2, 3, not
0, 1, 2, 4 :)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:35 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
02f5dac083 iwlwifi: add LED mode to support different LED behavior
Today's implementation allow LED to blink based on the traffic
condition. We introduce an additional LED mode that reflects the RF
state.

The supported LED modes after this are:
  IWL_LED_BLINK (current/default) - blink rate based on current Tx/Rx
                                    traffic
  IWL_LED_RF_STATE (new) -
    LED OFF: No power/RF disabled, the LED is emitting no light
    LED ON:  Powered/RF enabled, the LED is emitting light
             in a stable non-flashing state.

In order to provide the flexibility to support different LED
behavior per user/system preference we add "led_mode" iwlcore module
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:35 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
5953a62e7d iwlwifi: update PCI Subsystem ID for 6000 series
Update PCI Subsystem ID for 60x0 series based on HW SKU. Adding new SKU
for "ABG" and "BG" only devices.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:35 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4bd0914fa2 iwlwifi: update PCI Subsystem ID for 1000 series
Update PCI Subsystem ID for 1000 series based on HW SKU. Adding new SKU
for "BG" only devices.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:35 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
2f748decee iwlwifi: send cmd to uCode to configure valid tx antenna
In order for uCode to select the valid antennas for transmit, driver
need to configure the allowed tx antennas through host command.

The TX_ANT_CONFIGURATION_CMD should be used for 5000 series and up

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:35 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
e3949d6286 iwlwifi: add aggregation tables to the rate scaling algorithm
Current rate scale algorithm fluctuates between different MIMO modes fairly
rapidly, causing widely varying performance. These fluctuations occur because in
the rate_scale tables for expected throughput the values are not very different
for different modes.

However, when aggregation is turned on and MAC overhead is reduced, the
expected throughput for different MIMO modes grows and different modes have
vastly different performance. Add expected throughput tables for this case.

We also need to keep track of aggregation status per-station, so we add the
"is_agg" field to struct lq_sta.

Also includes cleanup of comments and variable names in/around the affected
code.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:34 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
91a55ae601 iwlwifi: do not clear TX info flags when receiving BlockAckResponse
OR-in AMPDU flags rather than assigning them.  This lets the TX status for
aggregated packets be processed by rs_tx_status.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:34 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
95407aa4d4 iwlwifi: clean up rs_tx_status
Cut down on redundant code, reorganize structure, and add/improve comments.
Should contain no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:34 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4e30cb691b iwlwifi: use S_IRUGO and S_IWUSR in module parameters
Instead of hardcode module parameter's permissions, use pre-defined.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:34 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
1f4b966503 iwlwifi: EEPROM version for 1000 and 6000 series
Update EEPROM version requirement for 1000 and 6000 series of NIC
for EEPROM version verification.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:33 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
01abfbb282 iwlwifi: allow user change protection mechanism for HT
Allow user to change protection mechanism for HT between RTS/CTS and
CTS-to-self through sysfs:

Show current protection mechanism for HT
   cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rts_ht_protection

Change protection mechanism for HT (only allowed while not-associated)
CTS-to-self:
   echo 0 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rts_ht_protection
RTS/CTS:
   echo 1 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rts_ht_protection

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:33 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
47eef9bd10 iwlwifi: Use RTS/CTS as the preferred protection mechanism for 6000 series
When 802.11g was introduced, we had RTS/CTS and CTS-to-Self protection
mechanisms. In an HT Beacon, HT stations use the "Operating Mode" field
in the HT Information Element to determine whether or not to use
protection.

The Operating Mode field has 4 possible settings: 0-3:
Mode 0: If all stations in the BSS are 20/40 MHz HT capable, or if the
BSS is 20/40 MHz capable, or if all stations in the BSS are 20 MHz HT
stations in a 20 MHz BSS
Mode 1: used if there are non-HT stations or APs using the primary or
secondary channels
Mode 2: if only HT stations are associated in the BSS and at least one
20 MHz HT station is associated.
Mode 3: used if one or more non-HT stations are associated in the BSS.

When in operating modes 1 or 3, and the Use_Protection field is 1 in the
Beacon's ERP IE, all HT transmissions must be protected using RTS/CTS or
CTS-to-Self.

By default, CTS-to-self is the preferred protection mechanism for less
overhead and higher throughput; but using the full RTS/CTS will better
protect the inner exchange from interference, especially in
highly-congested environment.

For 6000 series WIFI NIC, RTS/CTS protection mechanism is the
recommended choice for HT traffic based on the HW design.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
02bb1bea85 iwlwifi: clarify and clean up chain settings
The chain settings we currently use in iwlwifi are
rather confusing -- and we also go by the wrong
settings entirely under certain circumstances. To
clean it up, create a new variable in the current
HT config -- single_chain_sufficient -- that tells
us whether we need more than one chain. Calculate
that based on the AP and operating mode (no IBSS
HT implemented -- so no need for multiple chains,
for station mode we use the AP's capabilities).

Additionally, since APs always send disabled SM PS
mode, keeping track of their sm_ps mode isn't very
useful -- doubly not so for our _own_ RX config
since that should depend on our, not the AP's, SM
PS mode.

Finally, document that our configuration of the
number of RX chains used is currently wrong when
in powersave (by adding a comment).

All together this removes the two remaining items
in struct iwl_ht_config that were done wrong there.

For the future, the number of RX chains and some
SM PS handshaking needs to be added to mac80211,
which then needs to tell us, and the new variable
current_ht_config.single_chain_sufficient should
also be calculated by mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:33 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
e307ddce39 iwlwifi: show NVM version in debugfs
Show version number along with dumping NVM data, the version information
being removed from sysfs, add it back to debugfs to help debugging.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fad95bf59b iwlwifi: clean up ht config naming
Daniel Halperin pointed out that the naming
here is rather inconsistent with at least 3
different names being used for one thing in
different contexts. Rename the struct to
iwl_ht_config (rather than iwl_ht_info) and
use ht_conf as a variable for it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:32 -04:00