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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruno Randolf
6a0076e02a ath5k: report PHY error frames only for chips which need it
Only report PHY error frames for ANI on chipsets which do not have PHY error
counters in hardware.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:07 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
8786123b51 ath5k: review RX descriptor functions
Reviewed RX descriptor functions against the HAL sources. Some minor changes:

  - check size before making changes to the descriptor

  - whitespace

  - add comments about 5210 timestamps. this needs to be adressed later!

  - FIFO overrun error only available on 5210

  - rs_phyerr should not be OR'ed

  - clear the whole ath5k_rx_status structure before using, instead of
    zeroing specific fields.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:07 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
1884a3678c ath5k: take descriptor differences between 5210 and 5211 into account
There are some differences between 5210 and 5211 descriptors which we did not
take into account before.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:06 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
2237e92884 ath5k: update 5210/5211 frame types
Update 5210 frame types to match the HAL. We have to apply the same bitshift to
the constants as we use later.

Add 5211 specific frame types.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:06 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
03417bc605 ath5k: review and add comments for descriptors
I carefully reviewed desh.h against the HAL sources. Added comments and made
differences between 5210, 5211 and 5212 more clear by adding _521x to the
defines which are specific to that chipset. Renamed some defines. No functional
changes.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:05 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
62412a8f0d ath5k: remove pointless rx error overlay struct
ath5k_hw_rx_error was only used once, where we could easily just use
ath5k_hw_rx_status as well, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:04 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
2847109f73 ath5k: cosmetic changes in ath5k_hw_proc_5212_rx_status()
Just whitespace and indentation.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:04 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
a666819354 ath5k: use direct function calls for descriptors when possible
Use direct function calls for ath5k_hw_setup_rx_desc() and
ath5k_hw_setup_mrr_tx_desc() instead of a function pointer which always pointed
to the same function in the case of ath5k_hw_setup_rx_desc() and which is
easily unified in the case of ath5k_hw_setup_mrr_tx_desc().

Also simplify the initialization function for the remaining function pointers.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:03 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
230fc4f3b2 ath5k: remove ATH_TRACE macro
Now that we have ftrace, it is not needed any more.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:24 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
2111ac0d88 ath5k: Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) Implementation
This is an Adaptive Noise Imunity (ANI) implementation for ath5k. I have looked
at both ath9k and HAL sources (they are nearly the same), and even though i
have implemented some things differently, the basic algorithm is practically
the same, for now. I hope that this can serve as a clean start to improve the
algorithm later.

This also adds a possibility to manually control ANI settings, right now only
thru a debugfs file:
  * set lowest sensitivity (=highest noise immunity):
	echo sens-low > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * set highest sensitivity (=lowest noise immunity):
	echo sens-high > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * automatically control immunity (default):
	echo ani-on > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * to see the parameters in use and watch them change:
	cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani

Manually setting sensitivity will turn the automatic control off. You can also
control each of the five immunity parameters (noise immunity, spur immunity,
firstep, ofdm weak signal detection, cck weak signal detection) manually thru
the debugfs file.

This is tested on AR5414 and nearly doubles the thruput in a noisy 2GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:37:53 -04:00
Andrew Blaich
e9f08381cb ath5k: fixing retries in ath5k_hw_setup_4word_tx_desc
The rate control algorithm, default is Minstrel for ath5k, determines
the number of retries to use for each rate.  However, there exists in
ath5k_hw_setup_4word_tx_desc (which is called for AR5212 like devices)
a set number of retries defined by AR5K_TUNE_HWTXTRIES.  The set
number of tries is added to the tx_tries0 variable setup by the rate
control algorithm.  This changes the number of retries the rate
control algorithm considers necessary.  By removing the
AR5K_TUNE_HWTXTRIES from the retry calculation the rate control
algorithm is given control over the number of retries.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Blaich <ablaich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:44:46 -05:00
Bruno Randolf
ff5d96ce62 ath5k: remove ah_magic
it's never used. probably a leftover from the old OpenHAL days...

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:44:34 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
8127fbdc41 ath5k: Fix TX/RX padding for all frames
Currently, the padding position is based on
ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb(). This is not correct since the HW does
padding on RX (and expect the same padding to be present on TX) at the
following position :

- management : 24 + 6 if 4-addr format
- control    : 24 + 6 if 4-addr format
- data       : 24 + 6 if 4-addr format + 2 if QoS
- invalid    : 24 + 6 if 4-addr format

whereas ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb() is :

- management : 24
- control    : 16 except for ACK/CTS where it is 10
- data       : 24 + 6 if 4-addr format + 2 if QoS + 2 if QoS & order
- invalid    : 24

So, correct frames are not affected : management frames do not use
4-addr format, control frames have no body and invalid frames are ...
not valid by definition. However, in order to use monitor interface for
debugging purpose, one must be able to send/receive any frames, be it
correct or not. Such frames are affected by incorrect padding.

Moreover, since padding is added on TX, we need to remove it before
calling ieee80211_tx_status. This affect TX packets received by monitor
interfaces.

It has been tested between an ath5k based card (AR5212) and an ar9170usb
based card (netgear WNDA3100) using a frame generator and a monitor
interface for each card.

v2: Added ath5k_add_padding / ath5k_remove_padding

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:44:06 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
203c4805e9 atheros: put atheros wireless drivers into ath/
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:54:38 -04:00