Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the
probe routine to fail because the request to user space would time
out. The original fix for b43 (commit 6b6fa58) moved the firmware
load from the probe routine to a work queue, but it still used synchronous
firmware loading. This method is OK when b43 is built as a module;
however, it fails when the driver is compiled into the kernel.
This version changes the code to load the initial firmware file
using request_firmware_nowait(). A completion event is used to
hold the work queue until that file is available. This driver
reads several firmware files - the remainder can be read synchronously.
On some test systems, the async read fails; however, a following synch
read works, thus the async failure falls through to the sync try.
Reported-and-Tested by: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> (V3.4+)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
First of all, use PHY names instead of magic numbers. It should make
configuring kernel easier in case of not enabled PHY type support.
Secondly, always print info about PHY. This is really basic info about
hardware and quite important for the support level.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are more than 3 registers on new hardware. Host flags handling has
to be rewritten, as we can't use u128 type to handle all 5 regs.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
b43 with open firmware crashes mac80211 because
it changes the number of queues at runtime which,
while it was never really supported, now crashes
mac80211 due to the new hardware queue logic.
Fix this by detecting open vs. proprietary fw
earlier and registering with mac80211 with the
right number of queues.
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (depends on commit a6f38ac3)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this patch fixes kernel Oops on "rmmod b43" if firmware was not loaded:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000088
IP: [<ffffffff8104e988>] drain_workqueue+0x25/0x142
PGD 153ac6067 PUD 153b82067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Recent changes in udev are causing problems for drivers that load firmware
from the probe routine. As b43 has such a structure, it must be changed.
As this driver loads more than 1 firmware file, changing to the asynchronous routine
request_firmware_nowait() would be complicated. In this implementation, the probe
routine starts a queue that calls the firmware loading routines.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Following Rafal request, we verified that on "modern" CPUs using one
or more workers is equivalent. Here is patch V3 that addresses the
packet loss bug in the dma engine using only one worker.
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This patch addresses a bug in the dma worker code that keeps draining
packets even when the hardware queues are full. In such cases packets
can not be passed down to the device and are erroneusly dropped by the
code.
This problem was already discussed here
http://www.mail-archive.com/b43-dev@lists.infradead.org/msg01413.html
and acknowledged by Michael.
Number of hardware queues is now defined in b43.h (B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM).
Acknowledgements to Riccardo Paolillo <riccardo.paolillo@gmail.com> and
Michele Orru <michele.orru@hotmail.it>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The biggest change is reversing order of reading 32-bit table value.
MMIO dumps has shown it's done that way for LCN-PHY.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have module param called use_pio which is much easier to use.
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the "FWxx" ID strings from the b43 and b43legacy
drivers. They were once used to match a specific driver revision
to a set of firmware files. However, this is hardly useful today.
Additionally, the IDs are not updated and maintained properly, so
they might mislead users.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some hardware with 64-bit DMA uses lower address word for setting
routing (translation) bit. Add workaround for such boards.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Analyze of MMIO dumps from BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM4313 and BCM4331 has
shown that wl disables parity check for all that cards. This is required
for receiving any packets from the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It does nothing useful yet, so it is matched as BROKEN.
For now this is just an option for b43, in future we may want to make
b43 support SSB or BCMA (note: or, not xor).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Recent trivial fix corrected 'occured', but left 'reqest'.
codespell needs another dictionary entry.
cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
We free name "dev" for something generic (like dev abstraction layer).
Additionaly code is cleaner now, especially magic dev->dev-dev chains.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As discussed we do not know band width at core reset time and it is not a good
idea to reset whole just to change band. So just set unconditionally 20 MHz
band width as default during core reset.
As for defines PHY clock changed to band width in specs and it makes much more
sens to call defines by band width which is self-explainable. Updated specs do
not mention 0 value, but comparing to old ones you can notice lineral relation
between PHY clock speed and band width. So it makes sense for 0x0 value to be
10 MHz band width.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup patch.
Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when
DMA doesn't work.
The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user
reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it
automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is
wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO
case.
(Some post-2.6.33 merge fixups by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
and yours truly... -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit c7ab5ef9bc entitled "b43: implement
short slot and basic rate handling" reduced the transmit throughput for
my BCM4311 device from 18 Mb/s to 0.7 Mb/s. The basic rate handling
portion is OK, the problem is in the short slot handling.
Prior to this change, the short slot enable/disable routines were never
called. Experimentation showed that the critical part was changing the
value at offset 0x0010 in the shared memory. This is supposed to contain
the 802.11 Slot Time in usec, but if it is changed from its initial value
of zero, performance is destroyed. On the other hand, changing the value
in the MMIO register corresponding to the Interframe Slot Time increased
performance from 18 to 22 Mb/s. A BCM4306/3 also shows dramatic
improvement of the transmit rate from 5.3 to 19.0 Mb/s.
Other changes in the patch include removal of the magic number for the
MMIO register, and allowing the slot time to be set for any PHY operating
in the 2.4 GHz band. Previously, the routine was executed only for G PHYs.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> [Any stable version back through 2.6.28]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If userencounter the "Fatal DMA Problem" with a BCM43XX device, and
still wish to use b43 as the driver, their only option is to rebuild
the kernel with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO. This patch removes this option and
allows PIO mode to be selected with a load-time parameter for the module.
Note that the configuration variable CONFIG_B43_PIO is also removed.
Once the DMA problem with the BCM4312 devices is solved, this patch will
likely be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the deprecation of the qual member of ieee80211_rx_status, that
calculation and an associated constant can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The DMA-API debugging facility complains about b43 mapping memory from
stack for SDIO-based cards.
Indeed, b43 currently allocates the PIO RX/TX header and tail buffers
from stack. The solution here is to use heap-allocated buffers instead.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for verbose runtime statistics.
It defaults to off and must be enabled in debugfs, if desired.
The first measurement may be incorrect, because statistics are not cleared
after they got enabled through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes most of the b43 suspend/resume code (it's handled by mac80211)
and moves the registration of devices to the attachment phase. This is
required, because we must not register/unregister devices on suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the SHM spinlock.
SHM is protected by wl->mutex.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the TX spinlock and defers TX to a workqueue to allow
locking wl->mutex instead and to allow sleeping for register accesses.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
