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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c, branch v3.0</title>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2011-04-25T18:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
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<published>2011-04-25T18:34:25+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
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<title>rt2x00: Merge rt2x00ht.c contents in other files.</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T19:39:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gertjan van Wingerde</name>
<email>gwingerde@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-18T13:33:41+00:00</published>
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The two functions that are in rt2x00ht.c can be much better placed
closer to the places where the call-sites of these functions are (one
in rt2x00config.c and one in rt2x00queue.c) allowing us to make these
functions static.
Also, conditional compilations doesn't seem to be necessary anymore as
802.11n support is quite common nowadays.

This makes the code a bit easier readable and searchable.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The two functions that are in rt2x00ht.c can be much better placed
closer to the places where the call-sites of these functions are (one
in rt2x00config.c and one in rt2x00queue.c) allowing us to make these
functions static.
Also, conditional compilations doesn't seem to be necessary anymore as
802.11n support is quite common nowadays.

This makes the code a bit easier readable and searchable.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>rt2x00: Decrease association time for USB devices</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T19:39:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivo van Doorn</name>
<email>IvDoorn@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2011-04-18T13:31:02+00:00</published>
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When powersaving is enabled, assocaition times are very high
(for WPA2 networks, the time can easily be around the 3 seconds).

This is caused, because the flushing of the queues takes
too much time. Without the flushing callback mac80211 assumes
a timeout of 100ms while scanning. Limit all flush waiting
loops to the same maximum.

We can apply this maximum by passing the drop status to the
driver, which makes sure the driver performs extra actions
during the waiting for the queue to become empty.

After these changes, association times fall within the
healthy range of ~0.6 seconds with powersaving enabled.
The difference between association time between powersaving
enabled and disabled is now only ~0.1 second (which can also
be due to the measuring method).

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When powersaving is enabled, assocaition times are very high
(for WPA2 networks, the time can easily be around the 3 seconds).

This is caused, because the flushing of the queues takes
too much time. Without the flushing callback mac80211 assumes
a timeout of 100ms while scanning. Limit all flush waiting
loops to the same maximum.

We can apply this maximum by passing the drop status to the
driver, which makes sure the driver performs extra actions
during the waiting for the queue to become empty.

After these changes, association times fall within the
healthy range of ~0.6 seconds with powersaving enabled.
The difference between association time between powersaving
enabled and disabled is now only ~0.1 second (which can also
be due to the measuring method).

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>rt2x00: fix queue timeout checks</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T19:39:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Stezenbach</name>
<email>js@sig21.net</email>
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<published>2011-04-18T13:29:38+00:00</published>
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Add a timestamp to each queue entry which is updated whenever
the status of the entry changes, and remove the per-queue
timestamps.  The previous check was incorrect and caused both
false positives and false negatives.

With the corrected check it comes apparent that the TX status
usually times out on rt2800usb unless there is sufficient traffic
(i.e. the next TX will complete the previous TX status).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach &lt;js@sig21.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Add a timestamp to each queue entry which is updated whenever
the status of the entry changes, and remove the per-queue
timestamps.  The previous check was incorrect and caused both
false positives and false negatives.

With the corrected check it comes apparent that the TX status
usually times out on rt2800usb unless there is sufficient traffic
(i.e. the next TX will complete the previous TX status).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach &lt;js@sig21.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>rt2x00: Make rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each more flexible</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T19:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helmut Schaa</name>
<email>helmut.schaa@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-18T13:27:43+00:00</published>
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Allow passing a void pointer to rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each which in
turn in provided to the callback function.

Furthermore, allow the callback function to stop processing by returning
true. And also notify the caller of rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each if the
loop was canceled by the callback.

No functional changes, just preparation for an upcoming patch.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Allow passing a void pointer to rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each which in
turn in provided to the callback function.

Furthermore, allow the callback function to stop processing by returning
true. And also notify the caller of rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each if the
loop was canceled by the callback.

No functional changes, just preparation for an upcoming patch.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rt2x00: Split rt2x00dev-&gt;flags</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T19:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivo van Doorn</name>
<email>IvDoorn@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-18T13:27:06+00:00</published>
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The number of flags defined for the rt2x00dev-&gt;flags field,
has been growing over the years. Currently we are approaching
the maximum number of bits which are available in the field.

A secondary problem, is that one part of the field are initialized only
during boot, because the driver requirements are initialized or device
requirements are loaded from the EEPROM. In both cases, the flags are
fixed and will not change during device operation. The other flags are
the device state, and will change frequently. So far this resulted in the fact
that for some flags, the atomic bit accessors are used, while for the others
the non-atomic variants are used.

By splitting the flags up into a "flags" and "cap_flags" we can put all flags
which are fixed inside "cap_flags". This field can then be read non-atomically.
In the "flags" field we keep the device state, which is going to be read atomically.

This adds more room for more flags in the future, and sanitizes the field access methods.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The number of flags defined for the rt2x00dev-&gt;flags field,
has been growing over the years. Currently we are approaching
the maximum number of bits which are available in the field.

A secondary problem, is that one part of the field are initialized only
during boot, because the driver requirements are initialized or device
requirements are loaded from the EEPROM. In both cases, the flags are
fixed and will not change during device operation. The other flags are
the device state, and will change frequently. So far this resulted in the fact
that for some flags, the atomic bit accessors are used, while for the others
the non-atomic variants are used.

By splitting the flags up into a "flags" and "cap_flags" we can put all flags
which are fixed inside "cap_flags". This field can then be read non-atomically.
In the "flags" field we keep the device state, which is going to be read atomically.

This adds more room for more flags in the future, and sanitizes the field access methods.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2011-04-12T20:18:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-12T20:18:44+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_rf_rf2959.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_rf_rf2959.c
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<title>rt2x00: Add an error message when trying to send on a full queue</title>
<updated>2011-04-04T20:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helmut Schaa</name>
<email>helmut.schaa@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-28T11:35:51+00:00</published>
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We already tell mac80211 to stop the queue when we hit a certain
threshold. Hence, it shouldn't happen at all that a frame gets queued
for tx on a full queue. Add an error message for this case.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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We already tell mac80211 to stop the queue when we hit a certain
threshold. Hence, it shouldn't happen at all that a frame gets queued
for tx on a full queue. Add an error message for this case.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde &lt;gwingerde@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>rt2x00: Remove obsolete rt2x00queue_align_payload</title>
<updated>2011-04-04T20:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helmut Schaa</name>
<email>helmut.schaa@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-28T11:33:04+00:00</published>
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Since commit d1c3a37ceeb1a5ea02991a0476355f1a1d3b3e83 ("mac80211:
clarify alignment docs, fix up alignment") removed the requirement
for a 4-byte aligned payload rt2x00queue_align_payload is obsolete
as mac80211 will align the payload when it passes the frame to the
net stack.

As a result we can remove the call to rt2x00queue_align_payload in the
rx path and since that's the last user we can remove
rt2x00queue_align_payload altogether.

One advantage is that we save some alignment operations for frames
that don't need to be aligned (for example beause they are not passed
to the net stack).

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Since commit d1c3a37ceeb1a5ea02991a0476355f1a1d3b3e83 ("mac80211:
clarify alignment docs, fix up alignment") removed the requirement
for a 4-byte aligned payload rt2x00queue_align_payload is obsolete
as mac80211 will align the payload when it passes the frame to the
net stack.

As a result we can remove the call to rt2x00queue_align_payload in the
rx path and since that's the last user we can remove
rt2x00queue_align_payload altogether.

One advantage is that we save some alignment operations for frames
that don't need to be aligned (for example beause they are not passed
to the net stack).

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa &lt;helmut.schaa@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn &lt;IvDoorn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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