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>
The chain settings we currently use in iwlwifi are
rather confusing -- and we also go by the wrong
settings entirely under certain circumstances. To
clean it up, create a new variable in the current
HT config -- single_chain_sufficient -- that tells
us whether we need more than one chain. Calculate
that based on the AP and operating mode (no IBSS
HT implemented -- so no need for multiple chains,
for station mode we use the AP's capabilities).
Additionally, since APs always send disabled SM PS
mode, keeping track of their sm_ps mode isn't very
useful -- doubly not so for our _own_ RX config
since that should depend on our, not the AP's, SM
PS mode.
Finally, document that our configuration of the
number of RX chains used is currently wrong when
in powersave (by adding a comment).
All together this removes the two remaining items
in struct iwl_ht_config that were done wrong there.
For the future, the number of RX chains and some
SM PS handshaking needs to be added to mac80211,
which then needs to tell us, and the new variable
current_ht_config.single_chain_sufficient should
also be calculated by mac80211.
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>
Show version number along with dumping NVM data, the version information
being removed from sysfs, add it back to debugfs to help debugging.
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>
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>
Adjust led blink rate to compensate on a MAC Clock difference on every
HW. Led blink rate analysis showed an average deviation of 0% on 3945,
5% on 4965 HW and 20% on 5000 series and up.
Need to compensate on the led on/off time per HW according to the
deviation to achieve the desired led frequency
The calculation is: (100-averageDeviation)/100 * blinkTime
For code efficiency the calculation will be:
compensation = (100 - averageDeviation) * 64 / 100
NewBlinkTime = (compensation * BlinkTime) / 64
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>
is_ht can be bool instead of u8, and there's
no need to use IWL_CHANNEL_WIDTH_* constants
in supported_chan_width when that could just
be named is_40mhz instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Separate set_hw_params() function for 6000
series from 5000/1000 series because:
1) 6000 series use different set of sensitivity range table
2) 6000 series has different uCode image size
Also include the new sensitivity parameters needed by sensitivity
algorithm.
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>
Different NIC has different requirements for configuration. Currently all
5000 series hardware and later share the same configuration function even
though they do not need the same configurations. Fix this by separating the
needed configuration actions for each hardware model.
.5000 series: L1-ASPM H/W bug work-around
configure radio
write CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG for uCode use
work-around for NIC get stuck after early PCIe power off
.1000 series: write CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG for uCode use
setting digital SVR for 1000 card to 1.32V
.6000 series: configure radio
write CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG for uCode use
write CSR_GP_DRIVER_REG to indicate radio sku
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>
Remove few of the parameters not used and no longer valid in EEPROM.
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>
Modify LED blink index table to include 1Mbps.
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>
This is the last part to make ath9k hw code core driver agnostic.
I believe ath9k_htc can now use use the hw code unmodified.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac.c is now core driver independent.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hw code will be shared between ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Just a few more files are left to clean up, mark them as well.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is used just to determine how to program the MAC,
either for 20 MHz operation of 40 MHz so just use conf_is_ht40()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This was for supporting 25 MHz spacing for HT40, this is not used
as we use 20 MHz spacing instead for HT40 as per 802.11n. The hardware
is capable of it though so we leave the phymode definition and EEPROM
parsing for it. If some experimenter wants to work on this stuff stuff
you can add an extension enabling bool on ath_common and perhaps some
debugfs knob to enable it. Keep in mind you'll also need to update the
phymode with the AR_PHY_FC_DYN2040_EXT_CH which has been left on the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k uses this for now, ath9k_htc is expected to re-use this
as well. We lave ath5k as is, but it certainly can also be
converted later.
The ath9k module parameter and debugfs entry is kept.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make use of it on hw code in ath9k to avoid
using the ath9k ath_softc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also make ath5k and ath9k use it, and share register definitions.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Only common ath read/write ops go through the common ops.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We can propagate better errors upon failed hw initialization,
and set up the ath_common structure for attach purposes. This
will become important once we start using the ath_common
for read/write ops.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In an effort to make hw code driver core agnostic read
and write operations are defined on the ath_common structure.
This patch adds that and makes ath9k use it. This allows
drivers like ath9k_htc to define its own read/write ops and
still rely on the same hw code. This also paves the way for
sharing code between ath9k/ath5k/ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We disable ASPM when enabling bluetooth coexistance. Disabling
ASPM is a bus specific operation. In the future other buses may
support bluetooth coexistance, an example is USB. To this end
move the current routine which disables ASPM into pci.c, and declare
it the PCI bt_coex_prep() helper. Additionally, since ASPM is
a PCI-Express primitive ensure we don't ever try to muck with ASPM
registers on non PCI-express devices.
This also cleans up hw.c to not include bus specific headers or
utilities.
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: Stephen Chen <stephen.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ensures that we can access common on hw related code
independent of the driver core.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes this sparse warning:
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/attach.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/attach.c:288:42: warning: symbol 'ee' shadows an earlier one
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/attach.c:109:34: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ah_sta_id was really being used as the macaddr.
ath5k still does not use the association ID now passed
up by mac80211, that can be fixed later.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are common amongst ath9k and ath5k, so put them into the
common structure and make ath9k to use it. ar9170 can use macaddr,
and curbssid. We'll change ath5k and ar9170 separately.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the already provided helper instead of rewriting the code
required in place.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The same code was being implemented on reset for setting the bssidmask,
instead just use the already provided helper.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Historically some macro helpers have been users for this,
AR5K_LOW_ID() and AR5K_HIGH_ID(), use upstream unaligned
helpers instead. This applid to ath5k and ar9170. ath9k
already uses this.
Worth noting is ath5k uses an ah_sta_id but that is already
the MAC address combined with the associaiton ID, ah_sta_id
is really ETH_ALEN in size.
Cc: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mick@madwifi-project.org>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is used by both ath5k and ath9k to set the first bssid mask.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_setpower_nolock --> ath9k_hw_setpower()
ath9k_hw_setpower() --> ath9k_setpower()
Also change the param for ath9k_setpower() to pass the ath_softc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_setpower() is a core driver helper with locking
protection. Locking protection should be left to the driver
core, not the hw code. Hardware code no longer contends for
locking when it needs to wake up the chip or put it to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the TSF is reset power save state is disabled and
then restored. The helpers to disable power save and restore
it use a lock provided by the driver core. Move the callers
of the helpers outside of the hw code.
We reset the TSF when mac80211 tells us and on the beacon.c
helper ath9k_hw_beaconinit() when it is made explicitly required.
Add a helper on beacon.c which will deal with ps awake/restore
if we need to reset the TSF upon ath9k_hw_beaconinit().
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also just pass the ath_hw as the parameter.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are only used by btcoex.c on one routine, so stuff them
into that file.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After some necessary cleanups we now move ath9k_hw_btcoex_set_weight()
to where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The second argument is always the hardware bt coex struct, so
remove it, and rename the function on the path with a ath9k_ prefix.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
btcoex_scheme is already part of a btcoex struct, its implied
this is btcoex related.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
