brcmsmac uses info->control.sta while doing ampdu aggregation. This patch
changes the usage of the structure info->control.sta, as it is going to be
removed soon from struct ieee80211_tx_info. This patch is a pre-requisit in
order to add transmission power control (TPC) to the mac80211 subsystem.
Suggested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes potential NULL pointer dereference in ampdu. This
was found running smatch static code checker. Smatch warning says:
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/ampdu.c:741 brcms_c_sendampdu()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'p'
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tidying up some debug statements in brcms_c_ampdu_dotxstatus_complete()
that got broken strings to satisfy checkpatch, but the rules changed.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In regular use block-ack timeouts can happen so it does not make
sense to fill the log with these messages.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The A-MPDU code checked against a retry limit, but it was using
the wrong variable to do so. This patch fixes this to assure
proper retry mechanism.
This problem had a side-effect causing the mac80211 flush callback
to remain waiting forever as well. That side effect has been fixed
by commit by Stanislaw Gruszka:
commit f96b08a7e6
Date: Tue Jan 17 12:38:50 2012 +0100
brcmsmac: fix tx queue flush infinite loop
Reference:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42576
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The A-MPDU code checked against a retry limit, but it was using
the wrong variable to do so. This patch fixes this to assure
proper retry mechanism.
This problem had a side-effect causing the mac80211 flush callback
to remain waiting forever as well. That side effect has been fixed
by commit by Stanislaw Gruszka:
commit f96b08a7e6
Date: Tue Jan 17 12:38:50 2012 +0100
brcmsmac: fix tx queue flush infinite loop
Reference:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42576
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Current CONFIG_BRCMDBG flag when enabled does not
necessarily enable proper pr_debug output when
DEBUG is not also enabled.
Remove BCMDBG define and just use DEBUG instead.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver now uses the bcma register access functions to read and
write the registers on the 802.11 core. The dma and phy code need
to be modified next and access to the other cores. That will be done
in coming patches.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The function brcmu_pkttotlen calculates the total length of a sk_buff
chain following the next pointer. In brcmsmac this is not needed as
in each place where it was used the provided sk_buff had a NULL pointer
as next field value.
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the brcm80211 tree to drivers/net/wireless, and disable the version that's
in drivers/staging. This version includes the sources currently in staging,
plus any changes that have been sent out for review.
Sources in staging will be deleted in a followup patch.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
