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Author SHA1 Message Date
Wey-Yi Guy
da5dbb9715 iwlagn: set traffic load based on multiple factors
Current BT traffic load should based on the following conditions:

1. BT On/Off status
2. Channel announcement enable/disable
3. Curren traffic load report from uCode

Need to modify rate scale to down-grade from MIMO to SISO if detected
high BT traffic load. Also need to make sure not using chain "B" with high
BT traffic or if it is in "full concurrency" mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:34:53 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
bee008b783 iwlwifi: add bt full concurrency support
Adding the bluetooth full concurrency support for WiFi/BT combo devices.

Driver should configure uCode to operate in "full concurrency" mode (via
LUT) if both conditions are met:
 - Antenna Coupling is more than 35dB
 - WiFi Channel Inhibition Request is hornored by BT Core

Currently, there is no antenna coupling information provided by uCode;
use module parameter to specified the antenna coupling in dB.

When in "full concurrency" mode, driver need to download different LUT
to uCode while sending bt configuration command; also, driver need to
configure the device operate in 1x1 while in full concurrency mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:34:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
290f599cc6 iwlagn: let bluetooth traffic load impact rate scale
Depending on the amount of bluetooth traffic,
using the shared antenna (antenna B) will have
adverse impact on both bluetooth and wireless
traffic. Add controls to improve the situation
by making rate scaling depend on the BT load.

When there's high bluetooth traffic load, there's
little point in trying to aggregate as BT traffic
would disrupt the aggregated frames all the time,
so simply don't start sessions then.

When BT traffic returns to lower levels, the rate
scaling will come here again automatically when
wifi traffic is high enough, and then it will be
able to successfully enable aggregation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25 14:33:22 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
80e9158c3f iwlagn: continue perform rate scale when error detected
If for some reason, the actual link command not matching neither
active nor search table; instead of return and not performing rate
scale, by-pass the data collection and continue the rate scale process.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-08-24 16:32:02 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b1a78858c4 iwlagn: adjust starting action for rate scale
During rate scale, reset starting action after making action adjustment
to avoid the possibility of break out of loop too early.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-08-24 16:32:01 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
7469701e10 iwlwifi: make aggregation time limit configurable
By default, aggregation time limit is 4000 uSec, add the parameter to
.cfg
to allow this parameter can be configure per device base if needed.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
2010-08-24 16:32:00 -04:00
Andy Lutomirski
2411054ae9 iwlagn: Improve aggregation failure error messages
82ca934176 added scary looking
but harmless error messages.  Make them clearer and make the
actual failure message show up with the same severity as the
harmless one.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-04 15:30:55 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
cfecc6b492 iwlwifi: turn on RTS/CTS after aggregation become operational
If RTS/CTS protection is needed for HT, wait until get operational
notification from mac80211, then inform uCode to switch to RTS/CTS
through RXON command.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-25 15:20:41 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6a8579d0e6 mac80211: clean up ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session
There's no sense in letting anything but internal
mac80211 functions set the initiator to anything
but WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR, since WLAN_BACK_RECIPIENT
is only valid when we have received a frame from
the peer, which we react to directly in mac80211.

The debugfs code I recently added got this wrong
as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Joe Perches
a4b770972b drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s
This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary
return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
void functions.

It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

It also does not remove null void functions with return.

Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

with some cleanups by hand.

Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-14 00:19:28 -07:00
John W. Linville
83163244f8 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
2010-05-05 16:14:16 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
3d79b2a9ee iwlwifi: recalculate average tpt if not current
We currently have this check as a BUG_ON, which is being hit by people.
Previously it was an error with a recalculation if not current, return that
code.

The BUG_ON was introduced by:
commit 3110bef78c
Author: Guy Cohen <guy.cohen@intel.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 9 10:54:54 2008 +0800

    iwlwifi: Added support for 3 antennas

... the portion adding the BUG_ON is reverted since we are encountering the error
and BUG_ON was created with assumption that error is not encountered.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-04 13:24:22 -04:00
Daniel Halperin
e3a3cd8789 iwlwifi: set AMPDU status variables correctly
The TX status code is currently abusing the ampdu_ack_map field (a bitmap) to
count the number of successfully received frames.  The comments in mac80211.h
show there are actually three different, relevant variables, of which we are
currently using two, both incorrectly. Fix this by making

- ampdu_ack_len -> the number of ACKed frames (i.e. successes)
- ampdu_ack_map -> the bitmap
- ampdu_len -> the total number of frames sent (i.e., attempts)

to match the header file (and verified with ath9k's usage) and updating Intel's
RS code to match.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-30 15:34:31 -07:00
John W. Linville
3b51cc996e Merge branch 'master' into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
2010-04-23 14:43:45 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
82ca934176 iwlwifi: sanity check for turn on aggregation tid
Perform sanity check for turn on aggregation tid. Also remove the
option for turn on all the aggregation tids at once since it is
deprecated function and not being used.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:53:06 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
3a23d69582 iwlwifi: set correct single/dual stream mask
Even the initial single/dual stream values will be overridden later when
issue link quality command; but still make sense not to use hard-code
value during initialization. Single/Dual stream mask are used to indicate the
best antenna for SISO/MIMO; different NIC has different tx antenna
configuration; so the parameter need to based on the valid tx antenna.

1x2 device: single tx antenna available, only SISO is valid
configuration, but still need to set up MIMO configuration, so set it up
with antenna A & B as default.
2x2 device: two tx antenna available, dual_stream will use both valid
antenna.

3x3 device: three tx antenna available, skip the first antenna and
choice the second and third antenna for dual_stream.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:46:29 -07:00
John W. Linville
5c01d56693 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
2010-04-15 16:21:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
4a1032faac Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-04-11 02:44:30 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
f875f5183b iwlwifi: fix compile warnings when compiling without debug
Fixes:
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c:2419: warning: unused variable ‘priv’
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c: In function ‘iwl_send_add_sta’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c:197: warning: unused variable ‘sta_id’

drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function ‘iwl3945_rx_reply_rx’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:601: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_noise_diff’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:600: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_sig_avg’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c:650: warning: unused variable ‘priv’

Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:32:36 -07:00
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
Shanyu Zhao
04f2dec1c3 iwlwifi: use consistent table for tx data collect
When collecting tx data for non-aggregation packets in rate scaling, if
the tx data matches "other table", it still uses current table to update
the stats and calculate average throughput in function rs_collect_tx_data().
This can mess up the rate scaling data structure and cause a kernel panic
in a BUG_ON statement in rs_rate_scale_perform().

To fix this bug, we pass table pointer instead of window pointer (pointed
to by table pointer) to function rs_collect_tx_data() so that the table
being used is consistent.

Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Zhang <hongx.c.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 11:12:37 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Johannes Berg
ed1b6e99b5 iwlwifi: remove noise reporting
We go to great lengths to calculate this value
that is never used by mac80211. Additionally,
it is now deprecated by mac80211 and is causing
driver compilation to give warnings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:20:44 -07:00
Johannes Berg
fe0b3b96ab iwlwifi: sta_id cannot be invalid in rs_initialize_lq
The only caller of this is iwl_rs_rate_init
which is only called with a valid sta_id.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:07 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
fe6b23dd36 iwlwifi: implement new mac80211 station add/remove calls
mac80211 recently implemented two new callbacks that are used to request
station add/remove from the driver. The benefot from these new callbacks
are that they enable the driver to sleep while performing this work.

This is a big patch since a few things need to be coordinated in this move.
First we need to decouple station management from rate scaling, which
caused a lot of code to be moved and/or deleted. Next we needed to tie in
with mac80211's station management callback and let it direct our station
management as well as trigger the rate scaling initialization.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:58 -07:00
Johannes Berg
4a02886bae iwlwifi: remove priv->active_rate_basic
This variable is assigned a default value,
but then assigned zero as soon as mac80211
calls a change channel (which will happen
right after the hw is started) and after
that it never changes again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:04:54 -08:00
Johannes Berg
e99f168c7c iwlagn: remove write-only variables
Updating the variables last_rx_rssi, last_tsf
and last_beacon_time needs a lot of code but
they are not actually used in iwlagn (only in
3945) so we can move them to the 3945 specific
data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:53 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
45d427001b iwlwifi: check for aggregation frame and queue
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue,
if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead.
Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate,
if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and
sync-up with mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:10 -08:00
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
Tobias Klauser
79496738eb iwlwifi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:19:56 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
43e851157a iwlwifi: set read/write permission for debugfs files
Set the correct Read/Write file permission for iwlwifi debugfs files
based on the functionality of the files

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>
2009-11-23 17:05:33 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c951ad3550 mac80211: convert aggregation to operate on vifs/stas
The entire aggregation code currently operates on the
hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to
change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step
preparing for that make the aggregation code callable
with the station, or by the combination of virtual
interface and station address.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:15 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
5ad13f8ce7 iwlagn: move rate scale initialization to init function
This fits better in how the callbacks operate (alloc does allocation and
init does initialization). This also helps if we later want to do our own
initialization without relying on the mac80211 allocation.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:47 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
8d9698b3e6 iwlagn: store station rate scale information in mac80211 station structure
Currently mac80211 initializes the rate scaling before notifying the driver
of the station's existence. The driver dealt with this by not relying on
mac80211's station notifications and instead mixing this functionality with
the rate scaling code and other places. To clean this up the driver needs
to do rate scaling initialization after being notified of the station, this
can be done if the rate scaling information forms part of the station
information passed from mac80211 to driver.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:33 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
cc1282f63b iwlwifi: move rate scaling structures to header file
Move to header file so they can be included and used in other parts of the
driver.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:32 -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
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
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
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
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
Wey-Yi Guy
2ff6578ba2 iwlwifi: find the correct first antenna
We can not assume antenna "A" is the first valid anttena for
all the NIC. Need to make sure choice the correct antenna based on
h/w configuration for transmit to avoid sending frame on invalid
antenna

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>
2009-09-14 14:36:05 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
392a0baf31 iwlwifi: fix HT operation in 2.4 GHz band
When we cleaned up the driver to properly tell mac80211 about HT rates
("iwlwifi: use iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx where appropriate"), we broke
internal rate indexing in 2.4 GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Tested-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>
2009-09-14 14:36:04 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
31513be8a0 iwlwifi: use iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx where appropriate
For HT packets, mac80211 expects the rate_idx to be an MCS number, which is the
lower byte of rate_n_flags.  However, iwl_hwrate_to_plcp_idx takes the MCS
number and reduces it down to the range 0-8 (6 to 60 Mbps), removing the bits
that signify multiply streams, HT40 Duplicate mode, or unequal modulation.
This version is used for various internal purposes through the driver.

Add the function iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx, an alternate version which takes
the rate and the band and returns the mac80211 index (MCS, for HT packets, and
PLCP rate, for legacy packets).

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>
2009-08-31 14:42:10 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
5027309b55 iwlwifi: remove 60 Mbps from sband bitrates table
ieee80211_supported_band is supposed to only contain legacy rates in the
bitrates table (HT rates go in the ieee80211_sta_ht_cap substruct).  Make
iwlwifi driver obey this restriction by removing the 60 Mbps rate. Also, clean
up a few pieces of other code that formerly relied on 60 Mbps being in
sband->bitrates.

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>
2009-08-31 14:42:09 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
7ebaeff8ae iwlwifi: clear rate control flags on non-HT packet
Clear the flags (most importantly, the IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS flag)
when sending a non-HT packet so that the rate index can be properly treated.
This fixes the reporting of legacy rates in wireless-extensions for packets
sent after an HT packet.

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>
2009-08-28 14:40:38 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
b261793da5 iwlwifi: use station HT capabilities and BSS operating mode for Green-field
Green-field mode should be configured in the HT station table.  This patch uses
both the per-station GF support flag as well as the current BSS HT operation
mode (non-GF stations present flag).

Added the "ht_greenfield_support" field to struct iwl_cfg to replace the
device-specific check in rs_use_green().  That check has been moved to
iwlcore_init_ht_hw_capab().

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>
2009-08-20 11:33:12 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
28e6f48953 iwlwifi: check short GI support per-station rather than globally
Short guard interval support is a local per-station parameter not a global
per-NIC parameter.  (mac80211 will correctly remove SGI support from station
capabilities if the BSS does not permit it).  This patch removes the short GI
support bitfield from the global iwl_ht_info struct and properly uses
per-station HT capabilities during rate selection.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:33:12 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin
7869b0eaed iwlwifi: include HT configuration when adding stations through rs_rate_init
Driver's first notification of a new station from mac80211 can be through rate
selection API.  This patch fixes a bug where, in this code path, the HT
capabilities of the new station were ignored.

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>
2009-08-20 11:33:10 -04:00