ath9k calls ath9k_hw_stoptxdma every time it sends a beacon, however there
is not much point in doing that if the previous beacon and mcast traffic
went out properly. On AR9380, calling that function too often can result
in an increase of stuck beacons due to differences in the handling of the
queue enable/disable functionality.
With this patch, the queue will only be explicitly stopped if the previous
data frames were not sent successfully. With the beacon code being the
only remaining user of ath9k_hw_stoptxdma, this function can be simplified
in order to remove the now pointless attempts at waiting for transmission
completion, which would never happen at this point due to the different
method of tx scheduling of the beacon queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some situations, stopping Tx DMA frequently fails, leading to messages
like this:
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
This patch uses a few MAC features to abort DMA globally instead of iterating
over all hardware queues and attempting to stop them individually.
Not only is that faster and works with a shorter timeout, it also makes the
process much more reliable.
With this change, I can no longer trigger these messages on AR9380,
and on AR9280 they become much more rare.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Increasing the wait count makes the nf load pass in
most of the cases.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Increase the delay to make sure the initialization of pll
passes.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set some GPIO pins to Pull-down mode to save power.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware rx filter flag triggered by FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS is overly broad
and covers even frames with PHY errors. When this flag is enabled, this message
shows up frequently during scanning or hardware resets:
ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we start RX up
Since promiscuous mode is usually not particularly useful, yet enabled by
default by bridging (either used normally in 4-addr mode, or with hacks
for various virtualization software), we should sacrifice it for better
reliability during normal operation.
This patch leaves it enabled if there are active monitor mode interfaces, since
it's very useful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It seems ath5k has issues receiving broadcast packets (ARPs) when
using multiple STA interfaces associated with multiple APs.
This patch ensures the NIC is always in PROMISC mode if there
are more than 1 stations associated.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
No use printing addresses of pointers, just print the
pointers themselves.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
/<debugfs_root>/ieee80211/phyX/ath9k/regdump is the interface
to dump the registers.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The AID and BSSID should be set in the HW only for the
first station interface or adhoc interface. Also, cancel
the ANI timer in stop() for multi-STA scenario. And finally
configure the HW beacon timers only for the first station
interface.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9485 doesn't use the default GPIO pin for LED and GPIO 6 is actually
used for this.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Initialize txq to avoid this warning:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c: In function ‘ath9k_flush’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:2138: warning: ‘txq’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
pll_work should be cancelled on full_sleep or it may cause
redundant chip reset.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.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>
The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs() takes care of freeing
all the allocated URBs for the various endpoints when
an error occurs. Calling ath9k_hif_usb_dealloc_urbs() would
cause a panic since the URBs have already been freed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add ATH9K_RX_FILTER_UNCOMP_BA_BAR and ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PSPOLL
when mac80211 requires it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no need to set the BSSID mask or opmode when
initializing RX, they would be set correctly in the HW reset
routine.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The target beacon transmission time has to be synced with the HW
TSF when configuring beacon timers in Adhoc mode. Failing to do this
would cause erroneous beacon transmission, for example, on completion
of a scan run to check for IBSS merges.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Handle multi-interface situations by checking if
AP interfaces are already present.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The time granularity for the ANI task is different for AP and
station mode.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is required for allowing only one IBSS interface to be
configured.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is required when issuing commands to the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no need to use a locally stored reference.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 stores the association state in ieee80211_bss_conf.
Use this and remove the local state, which is incorrect anyway
since it is stored globally and not on a per-VIF basis.
Restarting ANI and reconfiguration of HW beacon timers when a
scan run ends requires more work. This is handled by iterating
over the active interfaces.
Finally, remove the useless check for associated status in RX
processing.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CTS protection can be obtained from mac80211 directly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211's BSS info can be used for this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Addition of a station might fail - handle this error
properly by removing the VAP on the target.
Also, bail out immediately if the max. no of interfaces
has been reached.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update capabilites on the target once, when
start() is called, there is no need for redundant
updating on adding an interface.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Multiple interfaces can be configured if a slot is free
on the target. Monitor mode also requires a slot.
The maximum number of stations that can be handled in
the firmware is 8, manage the station slots accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some AR7010 based devices are recognized as storage media.
Sending a CD-EJECT command to the device will 'convert' it into
a WLAN device. Do this within the driver itself, removing the
dependancy on an external program (usb_modeswitch).
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit "ath9k_hw: add an extra delay when reseting AR_RTC_RESET"
added an extra udelay to the reset routine. As the required
delay is already present, remove this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable recognition of AR2315 chipsets in ath5k driver.
Reported-by: Simon Morgenthaler <s.morgenthaler@students.unibe.ch>
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9170USB will be replaced by carl9170 in the foreseeable
future [2.6.40].
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
