linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/ath, branch linux-3.8.y

ath9k_hw: change AR9580 initvals to fix a stability issue

2013-04-25T19:51:22+00:00

commit f09a878511997c25a76bf111a32f6b8345a701a5 upstream.

The hardware parsing of Control Wrapper Frames needs to be disabled, as
it has been causing spurious decryption error reports. The initvals for
other chips have been updated to disable it, but AR9580 was left out for
some reason.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k_htc: accept 1.x firmware newer than 1.3

2013-04-25T19:51:22+00:00

commit 319e7bd96aca64a478f3aad40711c928405b8b77 upstream.

Since the firmware has been open sourced, the minor version has been
bumped to 1.4 and the API/ABI will stay compatible across further 1.x
releases.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: avoid queueing hw check work when suspended

2013-04-05T16:25:47+00:00

commit 7fc0357479eeff4ca808c4d8c09bc7631f576b8d upstream.

The following issue was reported.

WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:599 ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: iMac12,1
queueing ieee80211 work while going to suspend
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: PF          O 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1
Call Trace: Mar 16 09:39:17 Parags-iMac kernel: [ 3993.642992]  
[] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[] ? ath_start_rx_poll+0x70/0x70 [ath9k]
] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[] ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40

Fix this by avoiding to queue the work if our device has
already been marked as suspended or stopped.

Reported-by: Parag Warudkar 
Tested-by: Parag Warudkar 
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: limit tx path hang check to normal data queues

2013-04-05T16:25:47+00:00

commit 01d4ab96d2e7fceaad204e5a8710ce34e229b8c5 upstream.

The beacon and multicast-buffer queues are managed by the beacon
tasklet, and the generic tx path hang check does not help in any way
here. Running it on those queues anyway can introduce some race
conditions leading to unnecessary chip resets.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k_hw: revert chainmask to user configuration after calibration

2013-04-05T16:25:47+00:00

commit 74632d11a133b5baf6b9d622dd19d2f944d93d94 upstream.

The commit 'ath9k_hw: fix calibration issues on chainmask that don't
include chain 0' changed the hardware chainmask to the chip chainmask
for the duration of the calibration, but the revert to user
configuration in the reset path runs too early.

That causes some issues with limiting the number of antennas (including
spurious failure in hardware-generated packets).

Fix this by reverting the chainmask after the essential parts of the
calibration that need the workaround, and before NF calibration is run.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Reported-by: Wojciech Dubowik 
Tested-by: Wojciech Dubowik 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k_hw: improve reset reliability after errors

2013-03-14T18:26:22+00:00

commit 3412f2f086ea7531378fabe756bd4a1109994ae6 upstream.

On many different chips, important aspects of the MAC state are not
fully cleared by a warm reset. This can show up as tx/rx hangs, those
annoying "DMA failed to stop in 10 ms..." messages or other quirks.

On AR933x, the chip can occasionally get stuck in a way that only a
driver unload/reload or a reboot would bring it back to life.

With this patch, a full reset is issued when bringing the chip out of
FULL-SLEEP state (after idle), or if either Rx or Tx was not shut down
properly. This makes the DMA related error messages disappear completely
in my tests on AR933x, and the chip does not get stuck anymore.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues

2013-03-14T18:26:22+00:00

commit 838f427955dcfd16858b0108ce29029da0d56a4e upstream.

The ath9k commit 2ef167557c0a26c88162ecffb017bfcc51eb7b29
(ath9k: fix signal strength reporting issues) fixed an issue where the
reported per-frame signal strength reported to mac80211 was being
overwritten with an internal average. The same issue is also present
in ath9k_htc.
In addition to preventing the driver from overwriting the value, this
commit also ensures that the internal average (which is used for ANI)
only tracks beacons of the AP that we're connected to.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: fix RSSI dummy marker value

2013-03-14T18:26:21+00:00

commit a3d63cadbad97671d740a9698acc2c95d1ca6e79 upstream.

RSSI is being stored internally as s8 in several places. The indication
of an unset RSSI value, ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER, was supposed to have been
set to 127, but ended up being set to 0x127 because of a code cleanup
mistake. This could lead to invalid signal strength values in a few
places.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: allow setting arbitrary antenna masks on AR9003+

2013-01-22T19:33:44+00:00

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

ath9k_hw: fix chain swap setting when setting rx chainmask to 5

2013-01-22T19:33:44+00:00

Chain swapping should only be enabled when the EEPROM chainmask is set to 5,
regardless of what the runtime chainmask is.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville