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This patch sets the rfkill state to RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED when the
radio is killed by the hardware switch.
Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch removes the usage RFKILL_STATE_ON and uses
RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED instead.
Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
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CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c: In function ‘b43_rfkill_soft_toggle’:
drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c:90: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c: In function ‘b43legacy_rfkill_soft_toggle’:
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c:92: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c: In function ‘iwl_rfkill_soft_rf_kill’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c:56: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch
Also handle RFKILL_STATE_{ON,OFF} -> RFKILL_STATE_{UNBLOCKED,SOFT_BLOCKED}
conversion since I'm already here...
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This is a rewrite of the DMA API for SSB devices.
This is needed, because the old (non-existing) "API" made too many bad
assumptions on the API of the host-bus (PCI).
This introduces an almost complete SSB-DMA-API that maps to the lowlevel
bus-API based on the bustype.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the
DMA allocation error checking code. This is also necessary for a future
DMA API change that is on its way into the mainline kernel that adds
an additional dev parameter to dma_mapping_error().
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Never return TX_BUSY from op_tx. It doesn't make sense to return
TX_BUSY, if we can not transmit the packet.
Drop the packet and return TX_OK.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/tg3.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
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This fixes a kernel crash on rmmod, in the case where the controller
was restarted before doing the rmmod.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Currently, b43legacy is broken due to
commit fbad4598ca826b994d0fd4ce3deebc9cd1960b31
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu May 15 12:55:29 2008 +0200
mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
when compiled with only PIO or only DMA because I forgot to update two
stubs. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.
A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.
The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Having drivers start queues is just confusing, their ->start()
callback can block and do whatever is necessary, so let mac80211
start queues and have drivers wake queues when necessary (to get
packets flowing again right away.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.
this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
for signal:
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
for noise we currently only have dBm:
IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.
i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.
DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL
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adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing
at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing
ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi
b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more
iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more
p54 unspec 127 n/a missing
rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
rt2400 dBm n/a
rt2500pci dBm n/a
rt2500usb dBm n/a
rt61pci dBm n/a
rt73usb dBm n/a
rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?)
rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?)
zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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kernel-provided clamp_val is identical, delete the private limit_value helper.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This
* makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16
(as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping)
* removes the useless queue number defines
* splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues
* removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters
* removes some dead QoS code
* removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS
so that the drivers now never get a queue number
bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1)
for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for
conf_tx.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The callback takes a ieee80211_tx_queue_stats with a contained
array of ieee80211_tx_queue_stats_data, remove the former, rename
the latter to ieee80211_tx_queue_stats and make tx_stats() take
the array directly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The hw_key_idx inside the ieee80211_key_conf structure does
not provide all the information drivers might need to perform
hardware encryption.
This is in particular true for rt2x00 who needs to know the
key algorithm and whether it is a shared or pairwise key.
By passing the ieee80211_key_conf pointer it assures us that
drivers can make full use of all information that it should know
about a particular key.
Additionally this patch updates all drivers to grab the hw_key_idx from
the ieee80211_key_conf structure.
v2: Removed bogus u16 cast
v3: Add warning about ieee80211_tx_control pointers
v4: Update warning about ieee80211_tx_control pointers
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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This fixes some timings for pre-TBTT and synthetic PU.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes a DMA mapping leakage in the case where we reject a DMA buffer
because of its address.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes b43legacy for the SSB DMA API change.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This allows for the correct initial values to be uploaded to bcm4303
devices. It should be correct, but I can't reliably test this as I suspect
there's something going wrong with an hardware rfkill switch on my laptop.
Please test.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
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This fixes the module init message to tell that the legacy
driver loaded. This makes it less confusing, in case both drivers are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Having the full RX timestamp in beacons is necessary for IBSS
merge to work properly so extend the 16-bit timestamp to the
full 64 bits for beacon frames (as well as when monitor mode
is active.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Fix the B43legacy_WARN_ON macro so that it will evaluate expressions.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes uploading of the beacon data and writing of the TIM and DTIM offsets.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This adds some definitions for the MAC control register and uses them. This is
basically no functional change.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.
Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.
Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.
I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The bridge code was unnecessary enabled by the b44
driver, but it prevents the bcm43xx driver from
being loaded, as the bridge claims the same pci ids.
Now we enable the birdge only if the b43{legacy}
drivers are selected.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This adds printk messages with basic information about the driver being loaded.
This information includes a summary of the compiled-in features, which
simplifies bug-reporting and debugging a lot.
Also a firmware ID is printed. This is a unique identifier blob for a specific
version of the firmware. This ID is attached to a specific version of the firmware
blob in b43-fwcutter (see fwcutter git).
This helps users to select the right firmware for their device.
This also makes it possible to use automated scripts to fetch and extract the right
firmware for the driver. (The script will grep the .ko for the "Firmware-ID: xxx" string.)
While the driver might still support other versions of the firmware for backward
compatibility, this will always print out the officially supported version, which
people _should_ use.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The firmware version information should always get printed. Not only on a
debug build.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This adds the firmware ID to modinfo.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This checks if the DMA address is bigger than what the controller can manage.
It will reallocate the buffers in the GFP_DMA zone in that case.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Thanks to Matti Viljanen for reporting this.
Cc: Matti Viljanen <viljanen.matti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes four resource leakages.
In any error path we must deallocate the DMA frame slots we
previously allocated by request_slot().
This is done by storing the ring pointers before doing any ring
allocation and restoring the old pointers in case of an error.
This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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We must drop any packets we are not able to encrypt.
We must not send them unencrypted or with an all-zero-key (which
basically is the same as unencrypted, from a security point of view).
This might only trigger shortly after resume before mac80211 reassociated
and reconfigured the keys.
It is safe to drop these packets, as the association they belong to
is not guaranteed anymore anyway.
This is a security fix in the sense that it prevents information leakage.
This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch makes suspend/resume work with the b43legacy driver.
We must not overwrite the MAC addresses in the init function, as this
would also overwrite the MAC on resume. With an all-zero MAC the device
firmware is not able to ACK any received packets anymore.
Fix this by moving the initializion stuff that must be done on init but
not on resume to the start function.
Also zero out filter_flags to make sure we don't have some flags
from a previous instance for a tiny timeframe until mac80211 reconfigures
them.
This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Fix the crash reported below, which seems to happen on bcm4306 rev. 2 devices
only while using PIO:
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
Modules linked in: b43(F) rfkill(F) led_class(F) input_polldev(F) arc4 b43legacy mac80211 cfg80211 i915 drm snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device ohci1394 ieee1394 ssb pcmcia snd_intel8x0m ehci_hcd uhci_hcd evdev
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: GF (2.6.24st3 #2)
EIP: 0060:[<f90f667b>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
EIP is at b43legacy_pio_handle_txstatus+0xbb/0x210 [b43legacy]
EAX: 0000049b EBX: f11f8044 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f1ff8000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f11f8040 ESP: c04f4ef4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c04f4000 task=c0488300 task.ti=c04b8000)
Stack: f90f2788 c05009f0 c0500900 000010f7 f1053823 c04f4f24 dfb8e800 00000003
f1368000 00000007 00000296 f90f1975 00001000 010c0800 01000000 00000007
f90f6391 f11f8000 00000082 c04f4f4a 00000000 00004fd0 10f70000 8c061000
Call Trace:
[<f90f2788>] b43legacy_debugfs_log_txstat+0x48/0xb0 [b43legacy]
[<f90f1975>] b43legacy_handle_hwtxstatus+0x75/0x80 [b43legacy]
[<f90f6391>] b43legacy_pio_rx+0x201/0x280 [b43legacy]
[<f90e4fa3>] b43legacy_interrupt_tasklet+0x2e3/0x870 [b43legacy]
[<c0123567>] tasklet_action+0x27/0x60
[<c01237b4>] __do_softirq+0x54/0xb0
[<c010686b>] do_softirq+0x7b/0xe0
[<c01457c0>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0x110
[<c01457c0>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0x110
[<c0123758>] irq_exit+0x38/0x40
[<c0106953>] do_IRQ+0x83/0xd0
[<c011812f>] __update_rq_clock+0x4f/0x180
[<c0104b4f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
[<c011007b>] wakeup_code+0x7b/0xde
[<c02b1039>] acpi_processor_idle+0x24a/0x3c9
[<c01025c7>] cpu_idle+0x47/0x80
[<c04b9ad5>] start_kernel+0x205/0x290
[<c04b9360>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1f0
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EIP: [<f90f667b>] b43legacy_pio_handle_txstatus+0xbb/0x210 [b43legacy] SS:ESP 0068:c04f4ef4
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This zeros out all microcode related memory before loading
the microcode.
This also fixes initialization of the MAC control register.
The _only_ place where we overwrite the contents of the MAC control
register is at the beginning of b43_chip_init().
All other places must do read() -> mask/set -> write() to not
overwrite existing bits.
This also adds a longer delay for waiting for the microcode
to initialize itself. It seems that the current timeout is sufficient
on all available devices, but there's no real reason why we shouldn't
wait for up to one second. Slow embedded devices might exist.
Better safe than sorry.
While at it, fix naming of MACCTL values.
This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We must kill rfkill in any error paths that trigger after rfkill init.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This fixes a sparse warning about weird locking.
The spinlock is not needed, so simply remove it.
This also adds some sanity checks to the PHY and radio locking
to protect against recursive locking.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Fix rfkill code which caused a use-after-free bug. Thanks to David
Woodhouse for spotting this out.
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.
This has two advantages:
* removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
for working with network namespaces and performance
* allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
having to allocate own lists/hash tables
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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