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2008-12-12iwlwifi: change email contact informationWinkler, Tomas
This patch replaces personal emails with hopefully always valid Intel Linux Wireless, which will be routed to a current maintainer Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12iwlwifi: iwl_poll_{direct_}bit cleanupZhu, Yi
The patch merges implementation of iwl_poll_bit() and iwl_poll_direct_bit() by letting the latter be a special case of the former. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12iwl3945: Fix rate scale for B-mode connectionAbbas, Mohamed
This patch make sure we use only CCK rate for B only network. For 3945 driver, it sets REPLY_RATE_SCALE command every time we connect to a new network. In this command we set for every rate the number of try and next rate. The problem mac80211 reports same mode for both B and G mode as IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ which will cause using invalid rate other than CCK in B only network. THis patch on association will examine sta valid rate on association, if no OFDM rate in valid available rates it considers it as B only mode so we can set REPLY_RATE_SCALE command with valid B only network and only choose CCK rate in rate scaling. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05iwlwifi: rely on API version read from firmwareReinette Chatre
This adds the infrastructure to support older firmware APIs. The API version number is stored as part of the filename, we first try to load the most recent firmware and progressively try lower versions. The API version is also read from the firmware self and stored as part of the iwl_priv structure. Only firmware that is supported by driver will be loaded. The version number read from firmware is compared to supported versions in the driver not the API version used as part of filename. An example using this new infrastrucure: if (IWL_UCODE_API(priv->ucode_ver) >= 2) { Driver interacts with Firmware API version >= 2. } else { Driver interacts with Firmware API version 1. } Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05iwl3945: Fix iwl3945 rate scaling.Abbas, Mohamed
3945 rate scaling was broken in recent tree. This patch fix the following: 1- Get TX response info and update rates window. 2- Rate scaling selection. 3- Flush window timer. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05iwl3945: Select correct sta ID from find_station()Samuel Ortiz
The find_station routine needs to look at the IWL_AP_ID entry if we're a STA. Currently, it only looks for STA entries which causes HW crypto to fail. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31iwlwifi: run through spell checkerTomas Winkler
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control APIJohannes Berg
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control, most drivers don't support that though. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-27net: convert print_mac to %pMJohannes Berg
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for now, no harm done. I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-15mac80211: use nl80211 interface typesJohannes Berg
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need to translate them any more now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11iwl3945 : Code cleanupAbhijeet Kolekar
Simplify pass_packet_to_mac80211 code block. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08iwl3945: replace association and beacon hooks with bss_info_changed cbAbhijeet Kolekar
Let mac80211 and bss_info_changed callback handle the association and beacon changes. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22iwlwifi: use generic mac80211 radiotap headersBruno Randolf
remove drivers own implementation of radiotap in favor of the generic one provided by mac80211. also remove priv->add_radiotap because it is not used any more. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-18removed unused #include <version.h>Huang Weiyi
The drivers below do not use LINUX_VERSION_CODE nor KERNEL_VERSION. drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-hcmd.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c This patch removes the said #include <version.h>. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-04iwlwifi: fix checkpatch.pl errorsTomas Winkler
This patch fixes errors reported by checkpatch in iwlwifi drivers Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-01iwl3945: Fix statistics in monitor modeMaxim Levitsky
iwl3945_rx_reply_rx was sending packets too early to mac80211, before updating signal strength/quality. This resulted in garbage power levels. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29iwl-3945: add #ifdef CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS to avoid compile warning.Rami Rosen
When building the wireless-next-2.6 tree with CONFIG_IWL3945 (for building iwl-3945 driver) and where CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS is not set, we get this warning: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function 'iwl3945_pass_packet_to_mac80211': drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:633: warning: unused variable 'hdr' This patch adds #ifdef to iwl3945_pass_packet_to_mac80211() to avoid this warning. (The variable 'hdr' is used only if CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS is set) Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14iwl3965: remove useless network and duplicate checkingAdel Gadllah
mac802 can handle duplicate packages on its own, so let it do it. The patch is based on patch from Johannes Berg for iwl4965. Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-07-07drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c Fix type issue on 64bitDarren Jenkins
Coverity CID: 2265 NEGATIVE_RETURNS "rate" is of an unsigned type, and the code requires a signed type. The following patch makes it so. Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmailcom> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2008-07-02iwlwifi: fix incorrect 5GHz rates reported in monitor modeRick Farrington
This patch fixes the rates reported in monitor mode operation (Wireshark) for iwlwifi. Previously, packets with rates of 6M..24M would be reported incorrectly and packets with rates of 36M..54M would not passed up the stack. Signed-off-by: Rick Farrington <rickdic@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14mac80211: add helpers for frame control testingHarvey Harrison
A few general categories: 1) ieee80211_has_* tests if particular fctl bits are set, the helpers are de in the same order as the fctl defines: A combined _has_a4 was also added to test when both FROMDS and TODS are set. 2) ieee80211_is_* is meant to test whether the frame control is of a certain ftype - data, mgmt, ctl, and two special helpers _is_data_qos, _is_data_pres which also test a subset of the stype space. When testing for a particular stype applicable only to one ftype, functions like ieee80211_is_ack have been added. Note that the ftype is also being checked in these helpers. They have been added for all mgmt and ctl stypes in the same order as the STYPE defines. 3) ieee80211_get_* is meant to take a struct ieee80211_hdr * and returns a pointer to somewhere in the struct, see get_SA, get_DA, get_qos_ctl. The intel wireless drivers had helpers that used this namespace, convert the all to use the new helpers and remove the byteshifting as they were defined in cpu-order rather than little-endian. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21mac80211: move TX info into skb->cbJohannes Berg
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>
2008-05-21mac80211: use rate index in TX controlJohannes Berg
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>
2008-05-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-05-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
2008-05-14mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise unitsBruno Randolf
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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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>
2008-05-12iwlwifi: Fix frequency in rx_status fillEmmanuel Grumbach
This patch fixes a bug in RX path, the frequency was wrongly set in the ieee80211_rx_status. This bug led to an empty scan list in A band. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07iwlwifi: define ANA_PLL values in iwl-csr.hTomas Winkler
This patch defines ANA_PLL values in iwl-csr.h Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-29wireless: use get/put_unaligned_* helpersHarvey Harrison
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>
2008-04-08iwlwifi: use ieee80211_frequency_to_channelTomas Winkler
This patch replaces ieee80211chan2mhz from radiotap with ieee80211_frequency_to_channel provided by mac80211 Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08iwlwifi: fix some warningsJohannes Berg
This fixes all kinds of warnings in iwlwifi. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-27iwlwifi: Add led supportMohamed Abbas
This patch add LEDS support to 3965 and 4965 drivers. It is based on led trigger and class. For our drivers we needed to avoid two things. 1- We receive led trigger on/off on each Rx\Tx frame. In our driver we can not call led command like that. In this driver once driver receive a start of traffic it call the led command to start blinking then we count all bytes of Tx and Rx frame, after two second we count the blink rate of last two second then id blink rate changed we call the led commands 2- Since we can call led command very often, we make sure we call the led command after we receive the statistics notification so we don't need to wake up the ucode id it is in sleep state. This patch was tested with 4965 and 3945. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Schram<ischram@telenet.be> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13iwlwifi: update copyright yearReinette Chatre
Also fix a copy and paste error in header of iwl-core.c. This file is not dual licensed. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13iwlwifi: Use sta_bcast_id variable instead of BROADCAST_ID constantTomas Winkler
This patch removes iwlYYY_BROADCAST_ID from run time usage. hw_setting.sta_bcast_id is used instead. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07iwlwifi: fix potential lock inversion deadlockReinette Chatre
This is a change to a previous patch ("iwlwifi: 3945 split tx_complete to command and packet function") to ensure we do not have hardirq safe locks (priv->lock in this case) depend on hardirq unsafe locks. We only call iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim while in a tasklet so we have to use the irqsafe version of the function. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07iwlwifi: 3945 split tx_complete to command and packet functionTomas Winkler
This patch 1. removes cmd completion from iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim and creates iwl3945_cmd_queue_reclaim. 1. removes 11n relevant elements from this function 2. removes call to ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe and uses ieee80211_tx_status only Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07iwlwifi: Take the fw file name from the iwl_cfg.Tomas Winkler
This patch adds fw_name to iwl_cfg. This allows run time selection of needed fw/ucode file Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07iwlwifi: add struct iwl_cfgTomas Winkler
This patch introduces struct iwl_cfg. struct iwl_cfg defines static configuration for each device type and sku. It is passed as driver_data to the bus probe function. This patch also introduce new common header file iwl-core.h which will represent core functionality of iwlwifi driver 3945ABG uses separate iwl-3945-dev.h header file for now Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07iwlwifi: extract iwl-csr.hTomas Winkler
This patch extract CSR Register definition into separate header files as most of the definition are commons to both 3945 and 4965. Definitions specific for 3945 and 4965 are properly prefixed Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06iwlwifi: Fix 52 rate report in rx statusTomas Winkler
This patch fixes reporting rate in RX packets in 52 band. The rate was updated from CCK rate index instead of OFDM rate 6M Most of the patch is collateral clean up Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29iwlwifi: Add tx_ant_num hw setting variableTomas Winkler
Added tx_ant_num variable into hw_setting This will be used for scanning TX antenna toggling On the way removed ac_queue_num unused Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversionJohannes Berg
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>
2008-02-01iwlwifi: fix sparse warning in iwl 3945Ron Rindjunsky
This patch fixes a sparse warning over iwl3945_add_radiotap function by turning it static Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-31iwlwifi: cleanup usage of inline functionsReinette Chatre
Be consistent when using inline functions. If the function only used once we move it to where it is used - no need for externs. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: fix printk warningAndrew Morton
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function 'iwl3945_add_radiotap': drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:269: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28iwlwifi: delay firmware loading from pci_probe to network interface openZhu Yi
This patch moves the firmware loading (read firmware from disk and load it into the device SRAM) from pci_probe time to the first network interface open time. There are two reasons for doing this: 1. To support kernel buildin iwlwifi drivers. Because kernel initializes network devices subsystem before hard disk and SATA subsystem, it is impossible to get the firmware image from hard disk in the PCI probe handler. Thus delaying the firmware loading into the network interface open time is the way to go. Note, we only read the firmware image from hard disk the first time the interface is open. After this is succeeded, we cache the firmware image into the host memory. This is a performance gain when user open and close the interface multiple times and is necessary for device suspend and resume. 2. For better power saving. When the iwlwifi modules are loaded (or buildin the kernel) but the wireless network interface is not being used, it is a good practice the wireless device consumes as less power as possible. Unloading the firmware from the wireless device and unregister the driver's interrupt handler in the network interface close handler provides users a way to achieve this. User space network configuration tools (i.e NetworkManager) can also contribute here when it detects a wired cable is connected and close the wireless interface automatically. This patch also includes the pci_save/restore_state() fixed by Ian Schram upon the first version. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28mac80211: add unified BSS configurationJohannes Berg
This patch (based on Ron Rindjunsky's) creates a framework for a unified way to pass BSS configuration to drivers that require the information, e.g. for implementing power save mode. This patch introduces new ieee80211_bss_conf structure that is passed to the driver via the new bss_info_changed() callback when the BSS configuration changes. This new BSS configuration infrastructure adds the following new features: * drivers are notified of their association AID * drivers are notified of association status and replaces the erp_ie_changed() callback. The patch also does the relevant driver updates for the latter change. Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28iwlwifi: proper monitor supportZhu Yi
This patch changes the iwlwifi driver to properly support monitor interfaces after the filter flags change. The patch is originally created by Johannes Berg for iwl4965. I fixed some of the comments and created a similar patch for iwl3945. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>