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11 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Berg
19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Michael Buesch
591f3dc200 b43: Do radio lock assertion in software
The assertion of the lock-bit in the hardware register is unreliable,
because there are devices with quirks that will randomly set the bit.

Do the assertion in software, only.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16 10:39:14 -04:00
Michael Buesch
b929ecf796 b43: Suspend MAC while killing the radio
We should suspend the MAC, before we kill the radio. This gives
the MAC a chance to leave any TX/RX state and it avoids races on
the PHY/RADIO registers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:24:04 -05:00
Michael Buesch
d10d0e5707 b43: Fix some MAC locking
This fixes some locking w.r.t. the lower MAC (firmware).
It also removes a lot of ancient IRQ-locking that's not needed anymore.
We simply suspend the MAC. That's easier and causes less trouble.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:23:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg
05c914fe33 mac80211: use nl80211 interface types
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Michael Buesch
cb24f57fe6 b43: Move Analog switching into phy code
This moves the Analog switching code into the PHY files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:00:16 -04:00
Michael Buesch
fb11137af8 b43: Split PHY alloc and init
This splits the PHY allocation from the PHY init.
This is needed in order to properly support Analog handling.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:49 -04:00
Michael Buesch
e63e436326 b43: Add LP-PHY template
This adds template code for the LP-PHY.
No actual functionality is implemented.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:43 -04:00
Michael Buesch
3d0da75164 b43: Move code from nphy.* to phy_n.*
Sourcecode files for PHY code are named by phy_XXX.{c,h}
where XXX is the PHY type.
Move the N-PHY code to match the other files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:43 -04:00
Michael Buesch
18c8adeb02 b43: Rewrite TX power adjustment
This patch rewrites the TX power recalculation algorithms to scale better
with changed enviromnent. If there's low
TX traffic, the power will be checked against the desired values
every 60 seconds.
If there is high TX traffic, the check is redone every 2 seconds. This improves
the reaction times a lot and confuses the rate control less.
It will also reduce the time it initially takes to tune to a new TX power
value. With the old algorithm it could take about 30 to 45 seconds to settle to
a new power value. This will happen in about two to four seconds now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:13 -04:00
Michael Buesch
ef1a628d83 b43: Implement dynamic PHY API
This patch implements a dynamic "ops" based PHY API.
This is needed in order to conveniently support future PHY types
to avoid the "switch"-hell.

This patch does not change any functionality. It just moves lots
of code from one place to another and adjusts it for the changed
data structures.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:12 -04:00