linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/b43, branch linux-3.7.y

b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots

2013-02-27T17:21:07+00:00

commit ccae0e50c16a7f7adb029c169147400d1ce9f703 upstream.

Bastian Bittorf reported that some of the silent freezes on a Linksys WRT54G
were due to overflow of the RX DMA ring buffer, which was created with 64
slots. That finding reminded me that I was seeing similar crashed on a netbook,
which also has a relatively slow processor. After increasing the number of
slots to 128, runs on the netbook that previously failed now worked; however,
I found that 109 slots had been used in one test. For that reason, the number
of slots is being increased to 256.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Cc: Bastian Bittorf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b43: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel

2013-01-17T16:46:37+00:00

commit 5e20a4b53094651d80f856ff55a916b999dbb57a upstream.

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 
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b43: fix tx path skb leaks

2013-01-11T17:18:16+00:00

commit 78f18df4b323d2ac14d6c82e2fc3c8dc4556bccc upstream.

ieee80211_free_txskb() needs to be used instead of dev_kfree_skb_any for
tx packets passed to the driver from mac80211

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

b43: Fix oops on unload when firmware not found

2012-10-24T17:18:09+00:00

When b43 fails to find firmware when loaded, a subsequent unload will
oops due to calling ieee80211_unregister_hw() when the corresponding
register call was never made.

Commit 2d838bb608e2d1f6cb4280e76748cb812dc822e7 fixed the same problem
for b43legacy.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Tested-by: Markus Kanet 
Cc: Stable  [V3.3.0+ (the patch will need to be refactored)]
Cc: Markus Kanet 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2012-10-02T20:38:27+00:00

Pull networking changes from David Miller:

 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov.

 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman.

 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko.

 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar.

 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy.

 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others.

 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel
    Borkmann.

 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for
    outgoing networking traffic.  This benefits processes that have very
    many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common.

    From Eric Dumazet.

10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to
    smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail.  Benefits are
    a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page
    allocator c) less waste of space.

    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet.

12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the
    limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation.
    From Stephen Hemminger.

13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale
    perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around.

Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user
namespace changes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits)
  hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message.
  hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet
  hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements
  hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request()
  hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter()
  hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization
  vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace
  vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET
  sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types
  sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP
  sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1
  sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup
  sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments
  sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type
  vxlan: virtual extensible lan
  igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group
  netlink: add attributes to fdb interface
  tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled.
  Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT"
  gre: fix sparse warning
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-10-01T16:06:36+00:00

Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Tiny usual fixes all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
  fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
  btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
  btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
  vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
  treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
  ipr: fix small coding style issues
  doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
  nfs: comment fix
  platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
  mfd: printk/comment fixes
  doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
  doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
  mmc: fix comment typos
  dma: fix comments
  spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
  Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
  tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
  tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
  tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
  ...

b43: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'BRCMSMAC_MODULE'

2012-09-01T15:39:25+00:00

There's no Kconfig symbol BRCMSMAC_MODULE, so the check for it will
always fail. There's no need to append _MODULE to tristate symbols
anyhow, because the config tools will do the right thing automagically.

(While we're touching this Kconfig file replace a tab between "default"
and "y" with a space.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem

2012-08-24T16:25:30+00:00

Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2012-08-21T20:00:21+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem

2012-08-15T18:29:37+00:00