With the new rate control API, the driver can now apply the
tx rate to outgoing frames just before they are uploaded to
the device. This is important because the rate control can
now react to fading or improving links a bit sooner.
Also, the driver no longer needs to sort the outgoing frames
for sample attempts (which affected the size of A-MPDUs and
the throughput of the link). For aggregated data frames, the
driver (and rate control) needs only to calculate and apply
a single set of tx rates to every subframe of the whole
aggregate.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Marco Fonseca reported a issue with his carl9170 device:
"I'm seeing a problem with the carl driver. If I change channels
repeatedly on the 2.4ghz band, monitoring (e.g. tcpdump) will
eventually halt. I've seen this on various versions of the carl
driver/firmware (both from 1.9.4 to 1.9.7)"
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136381302428113>
The culprit was identified as "fast channel change feature" which
according to Adrian Chadd is: "... notoriously unreliable and
really only fully debugged on some very later chips."
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136416984531380>
Therefore, this patch removes the fast channel change feature.
The phy will now always have to go through a cold reset when
changing channels, but it should no longer become deaf.
Cc: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit: "mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS and use it"
introduced a generic NUM_TID definitions for all everyone.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Previously, op_start would set disable_offload always
to false, even if it was set to true by the fw parser.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes the following bug:
usb 1-1.1: restart device (8)
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:654
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 0, name: swapper
(usb_poison_urb+0x1c/0xf8)
(usb_poison_anchored_urbs+0x48/0x78)
(carl9170_usb_handle_tx_err+0x128/0x150)
(carl9170_usb_reset+0xc/0x20)
(carl9170_handle_command_response+0x298/0xea8)
(carl9170_usb_tasklet+0x68/0x184)
(tasklet_hi_action+0x84/0xdc)
this only happens if the device is plugged in an USB port,
the driver is loaded but inactive (e.g. the wlan interface
is down). If the device is active everything is fine.
Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Because the hardware reports whenever an frame
was either at the start, in the middle or at
the end of a A-MPDU, we can easily report the
information for radiotap.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds an alternative tx status path
for BlockAck Requests as the hardware doesn't
recognize that a BlockAck Requests is usually
acked with a BlockAck and not a legacy ACK.
Without this patch, the stack would constantly
resent old and stale BARs. So, depending on the
receiver stack, this could lead to:
- "stuck" ba sessions and package loss, as the
stale BAR would reset the sequence each time.
- lots of reorder releases.
- ...
Reported-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mikołaj Kuligowski <mikolaj.q@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Per-Erik Westerberg <per-erik.westerberg@bredband.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch implements a simple way of reducing the
output power of the device by a configurable upper
limit.
Requested-by: Harshal Chhaya <harshal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the early days, this was a quite useful software
feature for testing different regdomains and chain
configurations without adding debugfs cruft into
the driver. Nowadays, the driver's phy code seems
to be stable and there's no need for it anymore.
Therefore I decided to removed altogether.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All AR9170 hardware have a 16-Bit random number generator.
The documentation claims the values are suitable for
"security keys".
The "throughput" is around 320Kibit/s. It's slow, but it
does work without introducing any special offload
firmware commands.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The firmware keeps track of channel usage. This data can
be used by the automatic channel selection to find the
*best* channel.
Survey data from wlan22
frequency: 2412 MHz [in use]
noise: -86 dBm
channel active time: 3339608 ms
channel busy time: 270982 ms
channel transmit time: 121515 ms
Survey data from wlan22
frequency: 2417 MHz
noise: -86 dBm
channel active time: 70 ms
channel busy time: 2 ms
channel transmit time: 1 ms
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9170_PWR_REG_PLL_ADDAC is used to set the main clock
divisor which affects the AHB/CPU speed. Because this
would interfere with the firmware internal timekeeping,
the function has to be moved into the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch imports all shared header changes
from carl9170fw.git.
* update copyright boilerplate
* add some more strategic __aligned(4).
* WoWLAN
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In order to provide multiple interfaces for a single device,
the driver will be required to advertise all possible
interface configurations to the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using the ieee80211_sta_block allows the PS code
to handle awake->doze->awake transitions of our
clients in a race-free manner.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.
This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
"mac80211 will properly assign sequence numbers to QoS-data
frames but cannot do so correctly for non-QoS-data and
management frames because beacons need them from that counter
as well and mac80211 cannot guarantee proper sequencing."
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RX Stress tests of unidirectional bulk traffic with
bitrates of up to 220Mbit/s have revealed that the
fatal-event recovery logic [which was solely triggered
by an out-of-rx-buffer situation] is too aggressive.
The new method now "pings" the device and then
decides - based on the response - whenever
a restart is needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because
of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn.
Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were
left with the job of filtering.
This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive
in terms of latency, memory and load.
Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible
filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to
offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check,
RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible.
Note:
This patch also includes all changes to the
shared headers files since the inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes some cruft, which survived
the RFC review phase.
Originally, carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue erroneously
dropped a lot of frames. As a result the ampdu
scheduler bogged down quite frequently and the
affected BA session timed out.
However this bug has been fixed and the WA and
its debugfs counter is no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver has a set of different initvals for 20 MHz
vs dynamic HT2040 operation. Because we can't change
some of the registers "in-flight", the driver needs to
perform a warm reset.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to Atheros, chain 1 is not connected.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Christian Lamparter
Ronald Wahl
Thomas Huehn
Pavel Roskin
John W. Linville
Linus Torvalds
Lucas De Marchi
Johannes Berg
Hauke Mehrtens