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| author | Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2010-04-30 15:13:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2010-04-30 15:13:00 -0700 |
| commit | ad41ee3a45c7de33cfa0057f4a12362ba1f1af32 (patch) | |
| tree | 84ad26649f4fce8a3816351ab1d511cf6c6f0bf1 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi | |
| parent | 49b5c7f473f1bbcb30275dcaee2c06dfb8ec2279 (diff) | |
| parent | 96ff56419504ac6a610ff1af42330e0423242e16 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'wireless-2.6' into wireless-next-2.6
Patch "iwlwifi: work around passive scan issue" was merged into
wireless-2.6, but touched a lot of code since modified (and moved)
in wireless-next-2.6. This caused some conflicts.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c index 4bd0aecc771..a2734742596 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c @@ -1395,16 +1395,29 @@ void iwlagn_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv) rate = IWL_RATE_1M_PLCP; rate_flags = RATE_MCS_CCK_MSK; } - scan->good_CRC_th = 0; + scan->good_CRC_th = IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED; break; case IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ: rate = IWL_RATE_6M_PLCP; /* - * If active scaning is requested but a certain channel - * is marked passive, we can do active scanning if we - * detect transmissions. + * If active scanning is requested but a certain channel is + * marked passive, we can do active scanning if we detect + * transmissions. + * + * There is an issue with some firmware versions that triggers + * a sysassert on a "good CRC threshold" of zero (== disabled), + * on a radar channel even though this means that we should NOT + * send probes. + * + * The "good CRC threshold" is the number of frames that we + * need to receive during our dwell time on a channel before + * sending out probes -- setting this to a huge value will + * mean we never reach it, but at the same time work around + * the aforementioned issue. Thus use IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_NEVER + * here instead of IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED. */ - scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH : 0; + scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DEFAULT : + IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_NEVER; break; default: IWL_WARN(priv, "Invalid scan band count\n"); diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h index 67c723cc32d..0086019b7a1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h @@ -2663,7 +2663,9 @@ struct iwl_ssid_ie { #define PROBE_OPTION_MAX_3945 4 #define PROBE_OPTION_MAX 20 #define TX_CMD_LIFE_TIME_INFINITE cpu_to_le32(0xFFFFFFFF) -#define IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH cpu_to_le16(1) +#define IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED 0 +#define IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DEFAULT cpu_to_le16(1) +#define IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_NEVER cpu_to_le16(0xffff) #define IWL_MAX_SCAN_SIZE 1024 #define IWL_MAX_CMD_SIZE 4096 #define IWL_MAX_PROBE_REQUEST 200 diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c index e7263ed693c..789480b89a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c @@ -2938,7 +2938,8 @@ void iwl3945_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv) * is marked passive, we can do active scanning if we * detect transmissions. */ - scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH : 0; + scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DEFAULT : + IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED; band = IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ; break; default: |