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Tomas Winkler 6ba8795622 iwlwifi: refactor pci prob flow
This patch refactores pci prob flow. It moves mac80211 registration
to the end, otherwise there is a race between error path in pci_probe
and mac_start.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:06 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 445c2dff40 iwlwifi: add debugfs to disable/enable run time calibration
This patch adds functionality to debugfs to enable or disable chain
noise or sensitivity calibrations.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:06 -04:00
Tomas Winkler da6833cb05 iwlwifi: remove 4965 remainings in iwl-eeprom.c file
The patch cleans up 4965 remaings from iwl-eeprom.c file.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:05 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 9636e583d2 iwlwifi: iwl5000 WiFi/WiMax coexistence
This patch adds WiFi/WiMax coexistence to iwl5000.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:05 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 99da1b48fc iwlwifi: add ucode init flow handling for iwl5000
This patch adds all the handlers and functions needed for ucode
initialization flow.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:04 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky dbb983b70a iwlwifi: add ucode loaders for iwl5000
This patch adds ucode initialization handler and functions to load
ucode for iwl5000 NIC.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:03 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky b600e4e1c5 iwlwifi: add rx_handlers stub for iwl5000
This patch adds rx_handler_setup stub to iwl5000.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:03 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 3647074973 iwlwifi: rename and move Tx queue activation/deactivation
This patch moves iwl4965_txq_ctx_activate and iwl4965_txq_ctx_deactivate
to iwl-dev.h and removes 4965 prefix from their names.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:02 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach ccc038abe4 iwlwifi: clean up and bug fix for security
This patch cleans up code in security.

1) uses the new pointer to ieee80211_key_conf passed with the tx_control.
2) resolves bug reported by Mirco Tischler (sends ADD_STA in ASYNC mode)
3) resolves bug reported by Volker Braun regarding dynamic WEP
4) drops a WEP packet which has been garbaged by firmware. This can
happen upon rekeying.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:01 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach a98410139a iwlwifi: don't switch to SGI if not supported by AP
This patch fixes SGI support. RS didn't look at the capabilities of the AP
before switching to SGI, this should lead to a stall in the traffic with an
AP that doesn't support SGI.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guy Cohen  <guy.cohen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:00 -04:00
Tomas Winkler fd4abac54a iwlwifi: move TX code into iwl-tx.c
This patch moves the sending part of the TX code into iwl-tx.c
including sending host commands.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:00 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 54dbb525e7 iwlwifi: refactor ieee80211_get_qos_ctrl
This patch refactors ieee80211_get_qos_ctrl function and its usage
in iwlwifi drivers. Function is moved as inline into iwl-helpers.h.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:59 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 83d527d9e8 iwlwifi: remove 4956 form iwl4965_tx_cmd
This patch renames iwl4965_tx_cmd to iwl_tx_cmd and cleans
collateral code.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:58 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 4f40e4d9fb iwlwifi: move more station managment into iwl-sta.c
This patch moves station management functions into iwl-sta.c (iwlcore).

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:58 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 57bd1bea48 iwlwifi: move iwl_bcast_addr to iwlcore
This patch renames iwl4965_broadcast_addr to iwl_bcast_addr
and moves it to iwlcore.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:57 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 1826dcc094 iwlwifi: remove 4965 from iwl4965_rate_info
This patch removes 4965 from iwl4965_rate_info structure and
associated variables.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:56 -04:00
Tomas Winkler fcab423d71 iwlwifi: remove 4965 prefix from iwl4965_frame
This patch removes 4965 from iwl4965_frame struct and handling functions.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:56 -04:00
Tomas Winkler babcebfabb iwlwifi: remove 4965 from iwl4965_tx_queue_update_write_ptr
This patch renames iwl4965_tx_queue_update_write_ptr to
iwl_txq_update_write_ptr. This is a preparation for moving to iwl-tx.c.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:55 -04:00
Gregory Greenman c1adf9fb31 iwlwifi: get_hw_cmd_size
This patch introduces a new handler get_hw_cmd_size in hcmd_utils,
which should adjust the size of the command sent to the microcode
according to the current nic.
It also changes the RXON flow to make usage of this new handler.

The patch also adds iwl_rxon_cmd structure which is supperset for
5000 HW and 4965.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:54 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 8567c63e33 iwlwifi: rename iwl4965_tx_info to iwl_tx_info
This patch renames iwl4965_tx_info to iwl_tx_info.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:54 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 443cfd457f iwlwifi: rename iwl4965_queue to iwl_queue
This patch renames iwl4965_queue to iwl_queue.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:53 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 39130df32a iwlwifi: filling Tx MCS set
This patch fills the needed data about HW capabilities in matters of
possible HT Tx MCS.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:52 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky edcdf8b21a mac80211: separate Tx and Rx MCS when configuring HT
This patch follows the 11n spec in separation between Tx and Rx MCS
capabilities. Up until now, when configuring the HT possible set of Tx
MCS only Rx MCS were considered, assuming they are the same as the Tx MCS.
This patch fixed this by looking at low level driver Tx capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:52 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 0b794d63c5 iwlwifi: remove iwl4965_nic_start function
This patch moves the contant of iwl4965_nic_start to the only place it is
being used.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:51 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 0288301760 iwlwifi: changing irrelevant comment
This patch changes an old eeprom comment in probe flow.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:51 -04:00
Holger Schurig 57962f0b9d libertas: reduce command retry time
[PATCH, take 2] libertas: reduce command retry time

In the normal case, an unsuccessful command would be retried for 10*5 seconds,
or 10*10 seconds in the worst case. This patch reduces this to 3*3 seconds,
or 3*10 seconds in the worst case.

I also reduced the time it takes to start a new command downloaded.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:46 -04:00
Javier Cardona b679aeb304 libertas: sysfs interface for accessing default mesh channel
This will create the following entry:
/sys/class/net/mshX
            -- boot_options
            |   |-- ...
            |   `-- channel
            ...

... which I overlooked on my previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:41 -04:00
David Woodhouse edf5dabfa8 libertas: Add reset_card() callback to hardware driver
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:40 -04:00
Javier Cardona 15dbaac03e libertas: sysfs interface for accessing non-volatile configuration
This will create the following sysfs directories:
/sys/class/net/mshX
		...
		|-- boot_options
		|   |-- bootflag
		|   `-- boottime
		...
		|-- mesh_ie
		|   |-- capability
		|   |-- mesh_id
		|   |-- metric_id
		|   `-- protocol_id

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:39 -04:00
Javier Cardona edaea5ce05 libertas: Extend MESH_CONFIG command to access non-volatile configuration
This patch is based on a patch from Shailendra Govardhan and Brian Cavagnolo.
It extends the MESH_CONFIG command to configure non-volatile parameters on
libertas devices that support them (e.g. OLPC Active Antenna).

This patch only implements the driver/firmware interface.

See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6823 for minimal testing results and known
issues.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:39 -04:00
David Woodhouse 75bf45a7b4 libertas: fix multicast filtering on eth and msh interfaces
We weren't properly handling multicast on the mesh interface. Fix that,
which involves setting up the hardware to use the union of dev->mc_list
for both eth%d and msh%d devices.

This means we can't do it directly from ->set_multicast_list() because
we'd need to lock the other device to read its list, and we can't do
that because it might deadlock. So punt the actual work to keventd.

Also, invoke the same when taking an interface down; for some reason the
core calls ->set_multicast_list while IFF_UP is still set in dev->flags
when we're taking it down, so its addresses don't get removed then.

We also convert MAC_MULTICAST_ADR to a direct command while we're at it,
removing one more entry from the big switch statement in the deprecated
lbs_prepare_and_send_command() function.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:38 -04:00
David Woodhouse e37fc6e11c libertas: Increase priority of 'unknown command' warnings
Using the deprecated lbs_prepare_and_send_command() function for a
command which it doesn't understand is an error; complain loudly about
it even when we're not debugging.

The mesh stats bug, where we converted MESH_ACCESS to a direct command
but accidentally missed one user which was still trying to do it through
lbs_prepare_and_send_command(), would have been caught a lot quicker if
we'd done this sooner. Such bugs aren't entirely unlikely in future too,
as we convert more code to stop using this function.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:37 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn f9d1cf53cf rt2x00: Release rt2x00 2.1.6
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:37 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn aade5102c5 rt2x00: Remove extra +
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:36 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn b8be63ffa5 rt2x00: Merge RX and TX entry private data
With the pending removal of the tx_control structure
we can merge the RX and TX entry private data structure
in advance. This will temporarily increase the required
memory for the queue, but that overhead will only be limited.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:35 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn dec13b6bda rt2x00: Remove redundant flags/dev_flags initializations
the rxdesc structure is properly memsetted before passed to
the driver. This means we don't have to reinitialize the flags
and dev_flags fields in the drivers again.
This will prevent problems when the rxdone handler is adding
flags in a earlier status and will make the code look nicer
when we are adding more read attributes in the rxdone handler
in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:34 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn 7050ec821c rt2x00: Split rt2x00lib_write_tx_desc()
Split rt2x00lib_write_tx_desc() up into a TX descriptor initializor
and TX descriptor writer.

This split is required to properly allow mac80211 to move its
tx_control structure into the skb->cb array.
The rt2x00queue_create_tx_descriptor() function will read all tx control
information and convert it into a rt2x00 TX descriptor information structure.
After that function is complete, we have all information we needed from the
tx control structure and are free to start writing into the skb->cb array
for our own purposes.
rt2x00queue_write_tx_descriptor() will be in charge of really sending
the TX descriptor to the hardware and kicking the TX queue.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:34 -04:00
Gertjan van Wingerde 4de36fe5ab rt2x00: Only initialize the minimum needed fields of PCI TX descriptors.
In preparation of replacing the statically allocated data DMA buffers with DMA-mapped
skb's we need to change the TXD handling of the PCI drivers, by moving the programming
of the buffer address fields to the actual TXD writing at TX time, instead of at start-up
time.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@kpnplanet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:33 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn 70a9610943 rt2x00: Preserve descriptor information after memmove()
Due to usage of memmove() in rt2x00usb the descriptor can become
corrupted because it is being overwritten by the data part.
Overall having the descriptor in front of the frame is a bad idea,
we can however use the skb->cb array for this task, since that
contains more then enough room to hold the entire descriptor and
preserve the information long enough.

After this we can also cleanup the alignment code a bit to make it
work a bit more flexible to allow for all kinds of odd header lengths.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:32 -04:00
Gertjan van Wingerde 61448f8807 rt2x00: Fix queue related oops in case of deselected mac80211 multi-queue feature.
With the integration of the mac80211 multiqueue patches it has become possible that the
mac80211 layer modifies the number of TX queues that is stored inside the ieee80211_hw
structure, especially when multi-queue is not selected.

The rt2x00 drivers are not well suited to handle that situation, as they allocate the
queue structures before mac80211 has modified the number of queues it is going to use,
and also expect the number of allocated queues to match the hardware implementation.

Hence, ensure that rt2x00 maintains by itself the number of queues that the hardware
supports, and, at the same time, making is not dependent on the preservation of contents
inside a mac80211 structure.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@kpnplanet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:32 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn 61486e0f68 rt2x00: Remove ieee80211_tx_control argument from write_tx_desc()
Move the last remaining information details read from ieee80211_tx_control
in the drivers to the txentry_desc structure. After this we can
remove ieee80211_tx_control from the argument list for the callback function,
which makes it easier when the control information is moved into skb->cb

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:31 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn fb55f4d1fa rt2x00: Fix TX status reporting
The tx_status enumeration was broken since the introduction
of rt61pci. That driver uses different values to report the
status of the tx action.
This would lead to frames that were reported as success but
actually failed to be send out, or frames that were neither
successfull or failure which were reported as failure.

Fix this by change the TX status reporting and more explicitely
check for failure or success. Note that a third possibility is
added "unknown". Not all hardware (USB) can report the actual
TX status, for rt61pci some frames will receive this status
because the TXdone handler is never called for those frames.
This unknown will now be handled as neither success or failure,
so we no longer increment the failure counter while this conclusion
could not be determined from the real status of the frame.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:30 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn 5a6e59991b rt2x00: trim skb_frame_desc to 32 bytes
Remove frame_type from skb_frame_desc and pass it
as argument to rt2x00debug_dump_frame().

Change data_len and desc_len to unsigned short
to save another 4 bytes in skb_frame_desc. Note that
this was the only location where the data_len and
desc_len was not yet treated as unsigned short.

This trim is required to help mac80211 with adding
the TX control and TX status informtation into the
skb->cb structure. When that happens, drivers will
have approximately 40 bytes left to use freely.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:47:30 -04:00
David S. Miller f42a44494b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-05-15 00:52:37 -07:00
David S. Miller 63fe46da9c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
2008-05-15 00:34:44 -07:00
Holger Schurig ef85ad541f libertas: remove lbs_get_data_rate()
lbs_get_data_rate() gets called, but no-one uses it's result.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:50 -04:00
Harvey Harrison 6dcdc19e4b b43: use the bitrev helpers rather than rolling a private one
The 4-bit reversal flip_4bit is replaced with the bitrev helper
bitrev8 and a 4-bit shift.  The B43_WARN is moved to the location
where a register is read from for checking there.  The other caller
explicitly passes an array index which is guaranteed to be within range
and so a B43_WARN is not added there.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:50 -04:00
Bob Copeland d6894b5be1 ath5k: Fix loop variable initializations
In ath5k_tasklet_rx, both status structures 'rxs' and 'rs' are
initialized at the top of the tasklet, but not within the loop.
If the loop is executed multiple times in the tasklet then the
variables may see changes from previous packets.

For TKIP, this results in 'Invalid Michael MIC' errors if two packets
are processed in the tasklet: rxs.flag gets set to RX_DECRYPTED by
mac80211 when it decrypts the first encrypted packet.  The subsequent
packet will have RX_DECRYPTED set upon entry to mac80211, so mac80211
will not try to decrypt it.

We currently initialize all but two fields in the structures, so fix
the other two.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:50 -04:00
Huang Weiyi 7a1d65235d b43: nphy.c remove duplicated include
Remove duplicated include <linux/delay.h> in
drivers/net/wireless/b43/nphy.c

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
Bruno Randolf 566bfe5a8b mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.

this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.

for signal:

  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW

for noise we currently only have dBm:

  IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW

if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.

i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.

DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
  rt2400        dBm             n/a
  rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
  rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
  rt61pci       dBm             n/a
  rt73usb       dBm             n/a
rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent

drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00