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authorJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>2009-10-13 12:47:47 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-10-27 16:48:10 -0400
commitc6d5d06e455b9965e300ae40c34fa2337e1aad0f (patch)
tree41feacb0d9f22d6f3928aaa1d46541b025adc6b3 /drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx
parent11f70f9715f0d8f99eac42d69689e8df15283fea (diff)
wl1271: Remove busy-word checking
Remove busy-word checking to work around an SPI bug. To reduce the chance of chipset-busy scenarios, increment the number of fixed busy words. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h
index 648223f67b5..e0ebb1fb2ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h
@@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ enum {
/*
* FIXME: for the wl1271, a busy word count of 1 here will result in a more
* optimal SPI interface. There is some SPI bug however, causing RXS time outs
- * with this mode occasionally on boot, so lets have two for now.
+ * with this mode occasionally on boot, so lets have three for now. A value of
+ * three should make sure, that the chipset will always be ready, though this
+ * will impact throughput and latencies slightly.
*/
-#define WL1271_BUSY_WORD_CNT 2
+#define WL1271_BUSY_WORD_CNT 3
#define WL1271_BUSY_WORD_LEN (WL1271_BUSY_WORD_CNT * sizeof(u32))
#define WL1271_ELP_HW_STATE_ASLEEP 0
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
index 4800fdfd237..3c5aa584574 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
@@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ void wl1271_spi_raw_read(struct wl1271 *wl, int addr, void *buf,
spi_sync(wl->spi, &m);
- /* Check busy words */
- if (!(busy_buf[WL1271_BUSY_WORD_CNT - 1] & 0x1))
- wl1271_spi_read_busy(wl, buf, len);
+ /* FIXME: Check busy words, removed due to SPI bug */
+ /* if (!(busy_buf[WL1271_BUSY_WORD_CNT - 1] & 0x1))
+ wl1271_spi_read_busy(wl, buf, len); */
wl1271_dump(DEBUG_SPI, "spi_read cmd -> ", cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
wl1271_dump(DEBUG_SPI, "spi_read buf <- ", buf, len);