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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bob Copeland
a180a13081 ath5k: clean up some comments
This fixes a few misspellings, word repetitions, and some grammar
nits in ath5k comments.  No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:00 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
b612798098 ath5k: remove own (wrong) IEEE80211_MAX_LEN
Use the version already supplied in include/linux/ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:27:59 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
418de6d955 ath5k: rename ath5k_hw_set_associd to _set_bssid
Although the named function also sets the aid, its main
purpose is configuring the bssid and we use that
everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:27:58 -04:00
Andrew Morton
b68b3c4d92 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c: needs sched.h
i386 allmodconfig:

drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c: In function 'lbs_scan_worker':
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:722: error: 'TASK_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:722: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:722: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c: In function 'lbs_cfg_connect':
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:1267: error: 'TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:1267: error: implicit declaration of function 'signal_pending'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c:1267: error: implicit declaration of function 'schedule_timeout'

So wait.h has a dependency on sched.h, but doesn't include sched.h.  This
patch doesn't fix that.

Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 16:45:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
97359d1235 mac80211: use cipher suite selectors
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211
cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values.
That isn't all too useful, and some drivers
benefit from the distinction between WEP40
and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it
all to use the cipher suite selectors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00
Dan Williams
915a824e30 libertas: [spi] use common firmware request helper and new firmware locations
linux-firmware puts libertas firmware in /libertas.  Fix the driver to
look there first, but fall back to the old firmware names if the new
ones don't exist.  Add preference for newer firmware versions too.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Dan Williams
3d32a58b87 libertas: [sdio] use common firmware request helper and new firmware locations
linux-firmware puts libertas firmware in /libertas.  Fix the driver to
look there first, but fall back to the old firmware names if the new
ones don't exist.  Add preference for newer firmware versions too.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Dan Williams
82222e9ba7 libertas: [cs] use common firmware request helper and new firmware locations
linux-firmware puts libertas firmware in /libertas.  Fix the driver to
look there first, but fall back to the old firmware names if the new
ones don't exist.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Dan Williams
72f7a6671e libertas: add two-stage firmware request helper
SDIO, GSPI, and CS all use 2-stage firmware and the loading
process and logic should be the same.  Allow module parameters
to override the automatic firmware choice, otherwise just walk
the bus driver's firmware table and pick out the first firmware
pair that exists for the given model.

Some special care is taken to allow overriding of just the helper
or the main firmware, but let the other of the pair be chosen
automatically.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Dan Williams
5cddea816e libertas: [usb] use new firmware locations
Look for firmware where the linux-firmware tree actually puts it, but
fall back to original firmware name & location when the new location
doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
e5ef5bad34 rt2x00: Remove ieee80211_rx_status from rt2x00_dev
rt2x00 was keeping a copy of ieee80211_rx_status embedded
into the rt2x00_dev structure. For each RX frame, this structure
was copied into the skb->cb where mac80211 would handle it further.

However at the moment only the fields current band, and frequency
were updated. Whereas the band was already provided directly within
the rt2x00_dev structure. Save a memcpy action, and reduce memory
a bit, by adding a curr_freq field to rt2x00_dev, and completely
remove the ieee80211_rx_status structure from rt2x00_dev.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:43 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
0856d9c04a rt2x00: Update comments regarding TXWI and TX_STA_FIFO
Add some comments about the TXWI fields and the TX_STA_FIFO register.
Especially describe the relationship between the TXWI field PACKETID
and the PID field in the TX_STA_FIFO register.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:42 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
96481b20f4 rt2x00: Implement TX status reporting for rt2800usb
The TX_STA_FIFO register which is used for per-frame TX frame
status reporting is also valid on rt2800usb. We can move the
rt2800pci_txdone function into rt2800lib where it can also
be used by rt2800usb.

rt2800usb needs to overwrite the txdone work handler to
a different function.

Both rt2800usb as rt2800_txdone need to take into account
that IO failures can occur while uploading the URB, which
means that when obtaining the new entry the IO status must
be checked.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:42 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
0c5879bc62 rt2x00: Request TXWI pointer from driver
The only reason why the write_tx_data callback function
is needed inside the driver, is because the location of
the TXWI descriptor is different on PCI and USB hardware.
Except for the beacon, where the TXWI is always at the
start of the SKB buffer.

In both cases the drivers write_tx_data function only
wrap around the function rt2800_write_txwi. Move write_tx_data
completely into the rt2800lib library, and add a callback
function to obtain the TXWI pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:42 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
3392beced3 rt2x00: Add helper function for reporting tx status
At some points, some drivers can't report the full TX status
information. This can happen for the UNKNOWN state, or the
FAILURE state (in case the URB failed).
Add a wrapper function to simplify reporting the
empty TX information.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:42 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
84804cdca0 rt2x00: Set MIMO PS flag in tx descriptor for STAs in dynamic SMPS mode
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:42 -04:00
Ivo van Doorn
7e613e1666 rt2x00: Move USB tx/rx done handling to workqueue
Move all TX and RX completion handling into a work structure,
which is handeled on the mac80211 workqueue. This simplifies
the code in rt2x00lib since it no longer needs to check if the
device is USB or PCI to decide which mac80211 function should be used.

In the watchdog some changes are needed since it can no longer rely
on the TX completion function to be run while looping through the
entries. (Both functions now work on the same workqueue, so this
would deadlock). So the watchdog now waits for the URB to return,
and handle the TX status report directly.

As a side-effect, the debugfs entry for the RX queue now correctly
displays the positions of the INDEX and INDEX_DONE counters. This
also implies that it is not possible to perform checks like queue_empty()
and queue_full() on the RX queue.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:41 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
c17512d846 ath9k: remove duplicate get_hw_crypto_keytype()
Use ath9k_cmn_get_hw_crypto_keytype() instead which is
already exported and shared, and does exactly the same thing.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:41 -04:00
Julia Lawall
6fe140024f drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k: Adjust confusing if indentation
Outdent the code following the if.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r disable braces4@
position p1,p2;
statement S1,S2;
@@

(
if (...) { ... }
|
if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column):
  cocci.print_main("branch",p1)
  cocci.print_secs("after",p2)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:41 -04:00
Julia Lawall
a3d558355e drivers/net/wireless/prism54: Adjust confusing if indentation
Indent the branch of an if.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r disable braces4@
position p1,p2;
statement S1,S2;
@@

(
if (...) { ... }
|
if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column):
  cocci.print_main("branch",p1)
  cocci.print_secs("after",p2)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:41 -04:00
Julia Lawall
2674f82d3e drivers/net/wireless/libertas: Adjust confusing if indentation
At the point of the patched code, err has already been tested, so it is
only worthwhile to test it again in the if branches where it is changed.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r disable braces4@
position p1,p2;
statement S1,S2;
@@

(
if (...) { ... }
|
if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column):
  cocci.print_main("branch",p1)
  cocci.print_secs("after",p2)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:41 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6044474ed8 ath9k: shorten the calibration interval during strong interference
When the noise floor limits are being bypassed because of strong
interference, sensitivity is also reduced.
In order to recover from this as quickly as possible, trigger a
long periodic calibration every second instead of every 30 seconds,
until the NF median is within limits again. This is especially important
if the interference lasts for a while, since it takes multiple clean
NF calibrations to bring the median back to normal.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:39 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
70cf15335e ath9k: use AP beacon miss as a trigger for fast recalibration
When beacons get stuck in AP mode, the most likely cause is interference.
Such interference can often go on for a while, and too many consecutive
beacon misses can lead to connected clients getting dropped.

Since connected clients might not be subjected to the same interference
if that happens to be very local, the AP should try to deal with it as
good as it can. One way to do this is to trigger an NF calibration with
automatic baseband update right after the beacon miss. In my tests with
very strong interference, this allowed the AP to continue transmitting
beacons after only 2-3 misses, which allows a normal client to stay
connected.

With some of the newer - really sensitive - chips, the maximum noise
floor limit is very low, which can be problematic during very strong
interference. To avoid an endless loop of stuck beacons -> nfcal ->
periodic calibration -> stuck beacons, the beacon miss event also sets
a flag, which allows the calibration code to bypass the chip specific
maximum NF value. This flag is automatically cleared, as soon as the
first NF median goes back below the limits for all chains.

In my tests, this allowed an ath9k AP to survive very strong interference
(measured NF: -68, or sometimes even higher) without losing connectivity
to its clients. Even under these conditions, I was able to transmit
several mbits/s through the interface.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:39 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
2292ca6d78 ath9k_hw: apply the noise floor validation to the median instead of single
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
6252fcb9f8 ath9k: add a separate debug level for stuck beacons
Stuck beacons are a useful indicator for debugging various PHY
issues such as calibration. Putting them on the same debug level
as the other beacon stuff makes it hard to spot them in huge amounts
of spam.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a85d7cca12 iwlwifi: track IBSS manager status
Only the IBSS manager, ie. the station that sent
the IBSS beacon last, should be replying to probe
responses. This requires implementing the mac80211
tx_last_beacon callback, which we can do thanks to
the ucode beacon notification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
07d4f1ad2c iwlwifi: make iwl_set_hw_params static to _agn
iwl_set_hw_params() only used by _agn, make it static

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
49ded76bd5 iwlagn: log pci revision id
Log the information after reading the PCI_REVISION_ID
from pci config space,

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:37 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
3867fe0477 iwlwifi: make iwl_hw_detect static to _agn
iwl_hw_detect() only used by _agn, make it static

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:37 -04:00
Thomas Klute
139455c391 libertas_tf: if_usb.c: Some more formatting fixes
Split some long lines to make checkpatch.pl happy. ;-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@uni-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:37 -04:00
Thomas Klute
422f8d19d6 libertas_tf: if_usb.c: Whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@uni-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:37 -04:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
c240879f34 iwlwifi: make scan workqueue functions static
We do not need export iwl_bg.*scan.*() functions just for initialize
workqueue in other module. Making that functions static helps with
iwl-scan.c code review a bit.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:36 -04:00
Dan Williams
86df5f7284 libertas: better association request debugging
Bring back the comment about FW v5 status codes from the pre-cfg80211
driver, and let through status codes that aren't remapped by the
firmware.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:36 -04:00
Dan Williams
4083858c8b libertas: better scan response debugging
Make it a bit easier to debug scan results in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:13 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
1e51b2ff0a ath9k: add fastcc to debug print for channel change
This helps us debug channel changes better.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:13 -04:00
John W. Linville
4d7ede7f5a rt2x00: do not shortcut rt2x00lib_config_antenna
This function was exiting early if the existing diversity settings
were unchanged.  Unfortunately, in some cases the antenna configuration
is not initialized at all.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14751

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
2010-08-16 15:23:42 -04:00
John W. Linville
9714d315d2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-08-16 14:40:44 -04:00
John W. Linville
84c164a34f b43: move hwrng registration driver to wireless core initialization
...and unregistration to core shutdown.  Previously, the driver
remained registered even when the hardware was shutdown.  That
causes the driver to return -ENODEV if the b43 device is IFF_DOWN.
This change causes the driver to disappear in that case, allowing
/dev/hwrng to still function if another hwrng device is available.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:48 -04:00
John W. Linville
13eb670c10 iwm3200wifi: remove comparison to WIFI_IF_NTFY_MAX in iwm_ntf_wifi_if_wrapper
drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c: In function 'iwm_ntf_wifi_if_wrapper':
drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c:1198: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type

This is, of course, because the value of WIFI_IF_NTFY_MAX is 0xff and
hdr->oid is a u8.  This is obviously an attempt to verify the range on
an input value, but since it has no effect it can simply be removed.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:48 -04:00
John W. Linville
aa0d52c5e7 ipw2100: avoid warning from pointer cast in call to IPW_DEBUG_TX
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: In function 'ipw2100_tx_send_commands':
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c:3063: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

This changes the cast and the conversion to match other usage of the
same value in calls to IPW_DEBUG_TX.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:48 -04:00
John W. Linville
1a7123cdd9 iwlwifi: disable aspm by default
Some iwlwifi devices inexplicably disconnect themselves from the PCI-E
bus causing the predictable failures.  This seems to disappear if ASPM
is disabled.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:47 -04:00
John W. Linville
31a5cddaae rtl8187: consolidate MSR writes in rtl8187_bss_info_changed
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:47 -04:00
John W. Linville
0f956e7107 rtl8180: use RTL818X_MSR_ADHOC for IBSS connection
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:47 -04:00
John W. Linville
030725d2c7 rtl8180: use NAPI for bottom-half processing
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:46 -04:00
John W. Linville
68e887ef21 zd1211rw: update fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
John W. Linville
dd358c9a45 rt2x00: update fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
John W. Linville
37269e8052 p54: update fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
John W. Linville
bcf3c7c526 b43legacy: update hw/fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
John W. Linville
652caa5b67 b43: update hw/fw version info in wiphy struct
This makes the information available through ethtool...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 14:39:45 -04:00
Maxim Levitsky
6ccf15a1a7 ath5k: disable ASPM L0s for all cards
Atheros PCIe wireless cards handled by ath5k do require L0s disabled.
For distributions shipping with CONFIG_PCIEASPM (this will be enabled
by default in the future in 2.6.36) this will also mean both L1 and L0s
will be disabled when a pre 1.1 PCIe device is detected. We do know L1
works correctly even for all ath5k pre 1.1 PCIe devices though but cannot
currently undue the effect of a blacklist, for details you can read
pcie_aspm_sanity_check() and see how it adjusts the device link
capability.

It may be possible in the future to implement some PCI API to allow
drivers to override blacklists for pre 1.1 PCIe but for now it is
best to accept that both L0s and L1 will be disabled completely for
distributions shipping with CONFIG_PCIEASPM rather than having this
issue present. Motivation for adding this new API will be to help
with power consumption for some of these devices.

Example of issues you'd see:

  - On the Acer Aspire One (AOA150, Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001
    Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)) doesn't work well
    with ASPM enabled, the card will eventually stall on heavy traffic
    with often 'unsupported jumbo' warnings appearing. Disabling
    ASPM L0s in ath5k fixes these problems.

  - On the same card you would see a storm of RXORN interrupts
    even though medium is idle.

Credit for root causing and fixing the bug goes to Jussi Kivilinna.

Cc: David Quan <David.Quan@atheros.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-13 13:46:20 -04:00