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Johannes Berg
ff0d91c3ee iwlwifi: reduce memory allocation
Currently, the driver allocates up to 19 skb pointers
for each TFD, of which we have 256 per queue. This
means that for each TX queue, we allocate 19k/38k
(an order 4 or 5 allocation on 32/64 bit respectively)
just for each queue's "txb" array, which contains only
the SKB pointers.

However, due to the way we use these pointers only the
first one can ever be assigned. When the driver was
initially written, the idea was that it could be
passed multiple SKBs for each TFD and attach all
those to implement gather DMA. However, due to
constraints in the userspace API and lack of TCP/IP
level checksumming in the device, this is in fact not
possible. And even if it were, the SKBs would be
chained, and we wouldn't need to keep pointers to
each anyway.

Change this to only keep track of one SKB per TFD,
and thereby reduce memory consumption to just one
pointer per TFD, which is an order 0 allocation per
transmit queue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-05 23:18:33 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
79d0732550 iwlwifi: support channel switch offload in driver
Support channel switch in driver as a separated mac80211 callback
function instead of part of mac_config callback; by moving to this
approach, uCode can have more control of channel switch timing.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-05 23:16:09 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a0ee74cf08 iwlwifi: beacon format related helper function
Move the ucode beacon formation related helper function from 3945 to
iwlcore, so both _3945 and _agn devices can utilize those functions.

When driver pass the beacon related timing information to uCode in both
spectrum measurement and channel switch commands, the beacon timing
parameter require in uCode beacon format; those helper functions will do
the conversation from uSec to the correct uCode format

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-05 23:15:49 -07:00
Shanyu Zhao
f43084498b iwlwifi: do not clear data after chain noise calib
Chain noise calibration data are cleared after the calibration is done
in iwlagn_gain_computation() and iwl4965_gain_computation(). This cause
the debugfs entries for those data useless. To provide valid debugging
info, clear those data right before starting the calibration instead.

Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-05 23:15:07 -07:00
John W. Linville
2daf6c1575 Revert "iwlwifi: move _agn statistics related structure"
This reverts commit a2064b7a4a.

when CONFIG_IWLAGN=n:

drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:254: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:303: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:304: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:305: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:306: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'

and many more.

Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-debugfs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 13:55:37 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
9c5ac091b2 iwlwifi: fix and add missing sta_lock usage
There are a few places where sta_lock is used, but the
station information protected by it is accessed outside
of the lock. Address this in two ways, if the access
won't sleep then just move the access into the lock, if
the access can sleep then copy the needed station
information to the stack to be accessed without risk of
it changing while access in progress.

Additionally, a number of other places access station
station information without holding the sta_lock, fix
those as well.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2010-05-13 10:44:16 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a2064b7a4a iwlwifi: move _agn statistics related structure
agn and 3945 has different statistics_notif data structure; since 3945
has it statistics_notif data structure inside the _3945 portion of
iwl_priv, it make sense to move the agn statistics_notif into _agn portion.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-13 10:42:45 -07:00
Johannes Berg
c1182743b6 iwlwifi: move iwl_find_station() to 4965
4965 code is the only thing that now still
needs iwl_find_station(), so move it there
and make it static. Everything else can
rely on the station data passed by mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg
2c810ccdba iwlwifi: rework broadcast station management
Currently, the broadcast station is managed along
with the interface type, rather than always being
present. That leads to a bug with injection -- it
is currently not possible to inject frames when
the only virtual interface is a monitor, because
in that the required broadcast station is missing.

Additionally, allocating and deallocating the
broadcast station's LQ all the time is wasteful,
and the code to support this is fairly complex.

So this changes completely the way we manage the
broadcast station. Rather than manage it along
with any interface, we now allocate it when we
bring the device up, and remove it again when we
bring the device down. When we bring the device
up, we don't immediately program the broadcast
station into it, instead we just mark it active
and rely on the next restore cycle to upload it
to the device. This works because an unassociated
RXON is always required at least once to set up
device parameters, which implies a reprogramming
of stations into the device.

As we now manage all stations properly, there no
longer is a need for forcing a clearing of them
via iwl_clear_ucode_stations(), which can become
a lot simpler.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg
93286db501 iwlagn: move iwl_get_ra_sta_id to 4965
This function is only needed by 4965, so
it need not be in core code and can be
made static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:57 -07:00
Johannes Berg
22adba2a69 iwlwifi: remove ucode virtual functions
AGN devices all use the same ucode operations,
except for 4965, because 4965 uses only v1 file
headers.

Therefore, we can remove all the indirection
we have here and just code the API distinction
in place, with a small special case for 4965.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:54 -07:00
Johannes Berg
1fa61b2e79 iwlwifi: manage IBSS station properly
Currently iwlwifi will eventually exhaust the station
table when adding the BSSID station for IBSS mode,
unless the interface is set down.

The new mac80211 ibss joined/left notification allows
us to fix that easily by moving the code to add the
IBSS station to the notification, and also adding
code to remove it again when we leave the IBSS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:53 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
65d1f89682 iwlwifi: use cfg to configure calibration operation
sensitivity calibration and chain noise calibration are not available
for all the devices; use .cfg to configure the availability of those
calibration functions

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
6e5c800e75 iwlwifi: use .cfg to enable/disable continuous ucode trace
Instead of checking device type for enable/disable continuous ucode
trace function; put it in .cfg for better control and more
flexibilities.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4e7033ef49 iwlwifi: remove device type checking for tx power in debugfs
Instead of checking device type for enable/disable tx power control,
move it to .cfg for better control and more flexibilities.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Johannes Berg
e7cb49550e iwlwifi: make scan antenna forcing more generic
Some future hardware will also require some antenna
overrides so make the current logic more generic;
right now it is semantically based on a workaround
for off-channel reception but the reasons for the
new antenna overrides will be different.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:54:29 -07:00
Johannes Berg
65b52bde68 iwlwifi: make BT coex config a virtual method
Some future hardware will require a different command to
be sent for bluetooth coexist, so make this a virtual
method that can be changed on a per-device basis.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:53:34 -07:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
b8c76267cf iwlwifi: add debugfs ops to iwlwifi
Seperate debugfs functions into iwlagn specific
debugfs file and Add debugfs ops to iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:51:31 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b6e4c55aae iwlwifi: trigger scan synchronously
Scan requesting doesn't need to be asynchronous
since all code paths leading up to it can sleep.
Make the scan request a new util operation that
is hw-specific (to account for 3945 vs. agn)
and call it right in place.

This patch moves a lot of code into iwlagn as
it need not be in iwlcore.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:47:37 -07:00
John W. Linville
b1f90866fb Merge branch 'wireless-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6 2010-04-12 15:20:53 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
04569cbe76 iwlwifi: update tx command response status
Update to include additional tx command response status for "_agn"
devices.

The following status indicate the transmission was postponed:
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_DELAY
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_FEW_BYTES
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_BT_PRIO
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_QUIET_PERIOD
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_CALC_TTAK

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:30:59 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
678b385d07 iwlwifi: default max event log size
Size of event log is determined by uCode which is different per NICs.
Set the maximum event log size per device to better match uCode
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:27:21 -07:00
John W. Linville
1805a34fa3 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
2010-04-09 13:42:26 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
ece6444c2f iwlwifi: need check for valid qos packet before free
For 4965, need to check it is valid qos frame before free, only valid
QoS frame has the tid used to free the packets.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 16:13:41 -04:00
John W. Linville
0f2df9eac7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
2010-04-08 13:34:54 -04:00
Frans Pop
91dd6c27a2 iwlwifi: remove trailing space in messages
Includes minor improvements in debugging messages in iwl-4965.c,
function iwl4965_is_temp_calib_needed().

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:53:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b744cb79ae iwlwifi: code cleanup for generic defines
Some defines used by all agn devices, but the definitions were in
iwl-4965-hw.h, move those to iwl-agn-hw.h which is the better place for
those.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:52:17 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
2b06861803 iwlwifi: merge module parameters into single place
Module parameters used to be defined in both iwl-5000.c and iwl-4965.c,
after the code re-structure, merge into iwl-agn.c for easy to read and
maintenance.

Number of module parameters are deprecated after this merge. These are also
scheduled for removal by 2.6.40.

The current supported parameters are:

 parm: debug50:50XX debug output mask (deprecated) (uint)
 parm: debug:debug output mask (uint)
 parm: swcrypto50:using crypto in software (default 0 [hardware])
(deprecated) (bool)
 parm: swcrypto:using crypto in software (default 0 [hardware]) (int)
 parm: queues_num50:number of hw queues in 50xx series (deprecated)
(int)
 parm: queues_num:number of hw queues. (int)
 parm: 11n_disable50:disable 50XX 11n functionality (deprecated) (int)
 parm: 11n_disable:disable 11n functionality (int)
 parm: amsdu_size_8K50:enable 8K amsdu size in 50XX series (deprecated)
(int)
 parm: amsdu_size_8K:enable 8K amsdu size (int)
 parm: fw_restart50:restart firmware in case of error (deprecated) (int)
 parm: fw_restart:restart firmware in case of error (int)
 parm: disable_hw_scan:disable hardware scanning (default 0) (int)

Remove "antenna" module parameter, it is not being used in "agn" driver.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:50:06 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
be6b38bcb1 iwlwifi: counting number of tfds can be free for 4965
Forget one hunk in 4965 during "iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds
in queue" patch.

Reported-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
2010-03-30 15:37:30 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d28667f871 iwlwifi: avoid device type checking in generic code
Avoid checking for specified device type to perform certain function,
switch to .cfg approach as more generic and better implementation
method.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:22:32 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
2f3f7f9c23 iwlwifi: Generic approach to measure temperature
In stead of checking for 4965 and do KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS conversation, add
.cfg parameter for more generic approach.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:20:58 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
8d801080dd iwlwifi: more clean up to move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Move more functions only used by agn driver from iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
74bcdb33e9 iwlwifi: move agn only tx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the tx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:27 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
fa8f130c50 iwlwifi: code cleanup for connectivity recovery
Split the connectivity check and recovery routine into separated
functions based on the types
   1. iwl_good_ack_health() - check for ack count
   2. iwl_good_plcp_health() - check for plcp error

Based on the type of errors being detected, different recovery methods
will be used to bring the system back to normal operational state.

Because different NIC has different HW and uCode, the behavior is also
different; these functions thus now form part of the ops infrastructure,
so we can have more control on how to monitor and recover from error condition
case per device.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:26 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
beac5498b7 iwlwifi: move plcp check to separated function
Move the plcp error checking into stand alone function and pointed by ops
to accommodate devices not needing this recovery.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b74e31a9bc iwlwifi: Recover TX flow stall due to stuck queue
Monitors the internal TX queues periodically.  When a queue is stuck
for some unknown conditions causing the throughput to drop and the
transfer is stop, the driver will force firmware reload and bring the
system back to normal operational state.

The iwlwifi devices behave differently in this regard so this feature is
made part of the ops infrastructure so we can have more control on how to
monitor and recover from tx queue stall case per device.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Shanyu Zhao
c11362c01b iwlwifi: clean up driver names for 1000/5000/6000
Align the driver names with official product names for 1000/5000/6000
series. This change mainly affects the debug messages show up in system
log. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:24 -07:00
Ben Cahill
647291f5c1 iwlagn: Add Flow-handler (FH) register dump for 4965.
FH register dump debug feature was recently added for 5000 and later;
4965 can use it also.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg
edc1a3a090 iwlwifi: clean up queue/fifo handling
4965 hardware has 7 queues reserved and the
remaining ones used for aggregation, 5000
and higher need to have 10 reserved. This
is not very clear in the code right now,
unfortunately.

Introduce a new IWL_TX_FIFO_UNUSED constant
and make the queue/FIFO mapping arrays able
to hold that value, and change the setup
code to reserve all queues in the arrays
(the queue number is the index) and use the
new unused constant to not map those queues
to any FIFO.

Additionally, clear up the AC/queue mapping
code to be more understandable. The mapping
is the identity mapping right now, but with
the mapping function I think it's easier to
understand what happens there.

Finally, HCCA isn't implemented at all and
I think newer microcode removed it, so let's
remove all mention of it in the code, some
comments remain for 4965.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:13:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
19bc291c99 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
David S. Miller
0448873480 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-25 23:22:42 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a239a8b47c iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue
When receive reply_tx and ready to decrement the count for number of
tfds in queue, do error checking to prevent error condition and
tfds_in_queue become negative number.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-22 11:15:50 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a9e10fb9b1 iwlwifi: clear all the stop_queue flag after load firmware
All the queues are awake and ready to use after loading firmware,
for firmware reload case, if any queues was stopped before
reload, mac80211 will wake those queues after restart hardware, so make
sure all the flag used to keep track of the queue status are
reset correctly.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:30 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
dff010ac8e iwlwifi: clear all tx queues when firmware ready
Reset and clear all the tx queues when finished downloading runtime
uCode and ready to go into operation mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:22:45 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
3e4fb5faef iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune.  There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point.  By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.

To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
John W. Linville
031cf0e94c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-01-19 15:58:41 -05:00
Dan Carpenter
39825f4dc9 iwlwifi: silence buffer overflow warning
Smatch (and presumably other static checkers) complain that MAX_TID_COUNT is
past the end of the array.  In the resulting discussion, Zhu Yi pointed out
that this value is not used in real life and the assignment was only there to
silence a gcc warning.

If there were a bug in the surrounding code and the value were used, the
WARN_ON(!qc) would print a warning before the crash.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-11 17:26:46 -05:00
John W. Linville
4f9b2a7dea Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/iface.c
2010-01-05 17:18:59 -05:00