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Wey-Yi Guy
4ff739747d iwlwifi: provide more comments for cfg structure
Provide comments for newly added cfg parameters

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:03 -07:00
Johannes Berg
2c810ccdba iwlwifi: rework broadcast station management
Currently, the broadcast station is managed along
with the interface type, rather than always being
present. That leads to a bug with injection -- it
is currently not possible to inject frames when
the only virtual interface is a monitor, because
in that the required broadcast station is missing.

Additionally, allocating and deallocating the
broadcast station's LQ all the time is wasteful,
and the code to support this is fairly complex.

So this changes completely the way we manage the
broadcast station. Rather than manage it along
with any interface, we now allocate it when we
bring the device up, and remove it again when we
bring the device down. When we bring the device
up, we don't immediately program the broadcast
station into it, instead we just mark it active
and rely on the next restore cycle to upload it
to the device. This works because an unassociated
RXON is always required at least once to set up
device parameters, which implies a reprogramming
of stations into the device.

As we now manage all stations properly, there no
longer is a need for forcing a clearing of them
via iwl_clear_ucode_stations(), which can become
a lot simpler.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg
1dda6d2837 iwlwifi: push virtual interface through
Rather than keeping every bit of information
around in priv and the virtual interface, add
a virtual interface to many functions and use
the information directly from it.

This removes beacon_int, assoc_capability and
assoc_id from struct iwl_priv.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:58 -07:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
a29576a784 iwl3945: add plcp error checking
Add plcp error checking for 3945. After threshold of plcp
is reached , it resets the radio

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:56 -07:00
Johannes Berg
22adba2a69 iwlwifi: remove ucode virtual functions
AGN devices all use the same ucode operations,
except for 4965, because 4965 uses only v1 file
headers.

Therefore, we can remove all the indirection
we have here and just code the API distinction
in place, with a small special case for 4965.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:54 -07:00
Johannes Berg
1fa61b2e79 iwlwifi: manage IBSS station properly
Currently iwlwifi will eventually exhaust the station
table when adding the BSSID station for IBSS mode,
unless the interface is set down.

The new mac80211 ibss joined/left notification allows
us to fix that easily by moving the code to add the
IBSS station to the notification, and also adding
code to remove it again when we leave the IBSS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:53 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
d2e210aef3 iwlwifi: make bcast LQ command available for later restore actions
When adding the broadcast station the link quality command is
generated on demand, sent to device, and disappears. It is thus not
available for later cases when we need to restore stations and need
to send the link quality command afterwards. Now, when first adding the
broadcast station, also generate its link quality command to always be
available for later restoring.

Also fix an issue when adding local stations where the "in progress" state
is never cleared.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:51 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
f401241310 iwlwifi: wimax co-exist code clean up
wifi/wimax co-exist command is part of _agn device configuration
sequence; move it to iwl-agn-ucode.c which is more appropriate place for the
function.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:49 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
65d1f89682 iwlwifi: use cfg to configure calibration operation
sensitivity calibration and chain noise calibration are not available
for all the devices; use .cfg to configure the availability of those
calibration functions

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
6e5c800e75 iwlwifi: use .cfg to enable/disable continuous ucode trace
Instead of checking device type for enable/disable continuous ucode
trace function; put it in .cfg for better control and more
flexibilities.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4e7033ef49 iwlwifi: remove device type checking for tx power in debugfs
Instead of checking device type for enable/disable tx power control,
move it to .cfg for better control and more flexibilities.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
1e460535ab iwl3945: fix scan races
Port following patch to 3945.

"commit 90c4162ff59a3281b6d2f7206740be6217bd6758
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 7 00:21:36 2010 -0700
    iwlwifi: fix scan races"

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg
a060bbfe4e mac80211: give virtual interface to hw_scan
When scanning, it is somewhat important to scan
on the correct virtual interface. All drivers
that currently implement hw_scan only support a
single virtual interface, but that may change
and then we'd want to be ready.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27 16:09:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e7cb49550e iwlwifi: make scan antenna forcing more generic
Some future hardware will also require some antenna
overrides so make the current logic more generic;
right now it is semantically based on a workaround
for off-channel reception but the reasons for the
new antenna overrides will be different.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:54:29 -07:00
Johannes Berg
fa58b6a3b3 iwlwifi: don't check monitor for scanning
Monitor mode operation need not (and probably should
not) affect scanning this way since real monitoring
can not properly happen while scanning anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:54:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg
65b52bde68 iwlwifi: make BT coex config a virtual method
Some future hardware will require a different command to
be sent for bluetooth coexist, so make this a virtual
method that can be changed on a per-device basis.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:53:34 -07:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
b8c76267cf iwlwifi: add debugfs ops to iwlwifi
Seperate debugfs functions into iwlagn specific
debugfs file and Add debugfs ops to iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:51:31 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b6e4c55aae iwlwifi: trigger scan synchronously
Scan requesting doesn't need to be asynchronous
since all code paths leading up to it can sleep.
Make the scan request a new util operation that
is hw-specific (to account for 3945 vs. agn)
and call it right in place.

This patch moves a lot of code into iwlagn as
it need not be in iwlcore.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:47:37 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
8715fa28fb Merge branch 'wireless-2.6' into wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
2010-04-16 13:43:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg
88be026490 iwlwifi: fix scan races
When an internal scan is started, nothing protects the
is_internal_short_scan variable which can cause crashes,
cf. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15667.
Fix this by making the short scan request use the mutex
for locking, which requires making the request go to a
work struct so that it can sleep.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:27:10 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
678b385d07 iwlwifi: default max event log size
Size of event log is determined by uCode which is different per NICs.
Set the maximum event log size per device to better match uCode
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:27:21 -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
Zhu Yi
de0f60ea94 iwlwifi: avoid Tx queue memory allocation in interface down
We used to free all the Tx queues memory when interface is brought
down and reallocate them again in interface up. This requires
order-4 allocation for txq->cmd[]. In situations like s2ram, this
usually leads to allocation failure in the memory subsystem. The
patch fixed this problem by allocating the Tx queues memory only at
the first time. Later iwl_down/iwl_up only initialize but don't
free and reallocate them. The memory is freed at the device removal
time. BTW, we have already done this for the Rx queue.

This fixed bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15551

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:18:26 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
e61146e36b iwlwifi: manage QoS by mac stack
We activate/deactivate QoS and setup default queue parameters in iwlwifi
driver. Mac stack do the same, so we do not need repeat that work here.
Stack also will tell when disable QoS, this will fix driver when working
with older APs, that do not have QoS implemented.

Patch make "force = true" in iwl_active_qos() assuming we always want
to do with QoS what mac stack wish.

Patch also remove unused qos_cap bits, do not initialize qos_active = 0,
as we have it initialized to zero by kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:38 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d28667f871 iwlwifi: avoid device type checking in generic code
Avoid checking for specified device type to perform certain function,
switch to .cfg approach as more generic and better implementation
method.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:22:32 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
2f3f7f9c23 iwlwifi: Generic approach to measure temperature
In stead of checking for 4965 and do KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS conversation, add
.cfg parameter for more generic approach.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:20:58 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
8d801080dd iwlwifi: more clean up to move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Move more functions only used by agn driver from iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
54b81550dd iwlwifi: move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the rx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:33 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
74bcdb33e9 iwlwifi: move agn only tx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the tx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:27 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
fa8f130c50 iwlwifi: code cleanup for connectivity recovery
Split the connectivity check and recovery routine into separated
functions based on the types
   1. iwl_good_ack_health() - check for ack count
   2. iwl_good_plcp_health() - check for plcp error

Based on the type of errors being detected, different recovery methods
will be used to bring the system back to normal operational state.

Because different NIC has different HW and uCode, the behavior is also
different; these functions thus now form part of the ops infrastructure,
so we can have more control on how to monitor and recover from error condition
case per device.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:26 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
beac5498b7 iwlwifi: move plcp check to separated function
Move the plcp error checking into stand alone function and pointed by ops
to accommodate devices not needing this recovery.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b74e31a9bc iwlwifi: Recover TX flow stall due to stuck queue
Monitors the internal TX queues periodically.  When a queue is stuck
for some unknown conditions causing the throughput to drop and the
transfer is stop, the driver will force firmware reload and bring the
system back to normal operational state.

The iwlwifi devices behave differently in this regard so this feature is
made part of the ops infrastructure so we can have more control on how to
monitor and recover from tx queue stall case per device.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -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
Reinette Chatre
f8e200de3a iwlwifi: remove needlessly exported symbols
iwl_apm_stop_master and iwl_internal_short_hw_scan
are only used within iwlcore and thus do not need to be exported.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:12:18 -08:00
Johannes Berg
b55e75ed92 iwlwifi: remove STATUS_MODE_PENDING
Since rfkill integration, mac80211 can no
longer add an interface while the hardware
is not ready, so STATUS_MODE_PENDING can
never be set.

Also, remove another superfluous channel
sanity check and return the commit_rxon
return value in case it failed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:06:06 -08:00
Johannes Berg
a1175124f3 iwlagn: move ICT code into separate file
All the ICT ISR code is iwlagn specific, and doesn't
need to be in iwlcore. So create a new iwl-agn.h
header file that will hold agn specific function
declarations etc., and move the ICT code into a new
iwl-agn-ict.c file that is linked into iwlagn. This
also gets rid of exporting those symbols.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
19bc291c99 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
David S. Miller
0448873480 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-25 23:22:42 -08:00
David S. Miller
675c60706c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-02-23 01:27:05 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a239a8b47c iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue
When receive reply_tx and ready to decrement the count for number of
tfds in queue, do error checking to prevent error condition and
tfds_in_queue become negative number.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-22 11:15:50 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
d5755939e8 iwlwifi: indicate calib version for 6050 series
Indicate calibration version to uCode

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
d2dfe6df75 iwlwifi: enable serialization of synchronous commands
Until now it was only possible to have one synchronous command running at
any time. If a synchronous command is in progress when a second request
arrives then the second command will fail. Create a new mutex specific for
this purpose to only allow one synchronous command at a time, but enable
other commands to wait instead of fail if a synchronous command is in
progress.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
7bfedc59ee iwlwifi: cleanup return values
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:31 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a93e7973d0 iwlwifi: multiple force reset mode
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation.
When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset()
function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help
to bring uCode back to normal operation state.

Currently only 2 type of force reset are available:
 - reset radio
 - reload firmware

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:24:12 -08:00
Kalle Valo
1296d47445 iwlwifi: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Ben Cahill
d4fe5ac9e0 iwlwifi: Add chain noise scaling factor
6x50 device requires a different scaling factor for Rx gain values sent to
device via PHY_CALIBRATION_CMD (CHAIN_NOISE_GAIN_CMD).  Rather than create
a new iwlXXXX_gain_computation() function, add new chain_noise_scale member
to struct iwl_cfg, and keep using iwl5000_gain_computation().

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
81963d6857 iwlwifi: cleanup spectrum measurement command support
In iwlagn the support for spectrum measurement command has been
disabled since v2.6.29 without any requests for it. In addition to this
when this command is indeed enabled it has been found to trigger firmware
SYSASSERT on at least 4965 and 5100 hardware (see
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952 ). Since then
this code has been bitrotting and cannot just be enabled without porting.

Remove support for spectrum measurement command from iwlagn. It can be
added back if there is a future need and the firmware problem it triggers
has been fixed. Support for the spectrim measurement notification remains
as it has been enabled all the time.

In addition to this remove the 3945 spectrum measurement command Kconfig
option and make this command always supported. The code added by this
enabling is minimal and only run when user triggers a spectrum measurement
request via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
3e4fb5faef iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune.  There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point.  By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.

To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
afbdd69af0 iwlwifi: add function to reset/tune radio if needed
Adding "radio reset" function to help reset and stabilize the radio.

During normal operation, sometime for unknown reason, radio encounter
problem and can not recover by itself; the best way to
recover from it is to reset and re-tune the radio. Currently, there is
no RF reset command available, but since radio will get reset when
switching channel, use internal hw scan request to force radio
reset and get back to normal operation state.

The internal hw scan will only perform passive scan on the first
available channel (not the channel being used) in associated state. The
request should be ignored if already performing scan operation or STA is
not in associated state.

Also include an "internal_scan" debugfs file to help trigger the
internal scan from user mode.

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>
2010-01-25 16:36:19 -05:00