Start removing the internal node list in ath9k, in preparation
for using mac80211's STA list.
Remove lists, locks, routines, flags, functions managing nodes in ath9k.
Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This enables Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) on ath9k.
ANI is as algorithm designed to minimize the detrimental
effects of time-varying interferences. This should
help with throughput in noisy environments. To use
ANI we re-enable the MIB interrupt. Since ANI works
on a timer and updates the noise floor we take
advantage of this and also report a non-static noise
floor now to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Part of the cleanup on ath9k -- this was also causing some
annoying compile time warnings.
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This hunk was originally removed as part of "ath9k: Fix IRQ nobody cared
issue with ath9k".
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

TSF adjust is needed only for AP mode when staggered beacons
are used. Since we support only a single interface in IBSS mode,
disable setting the TSF adjust register.
Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Enabling the MIB interrupts has proven to cause an
interrupt storm after 7 hours of run. We will make use of the
MIB interrupt once we have ANI supported added so for now
to cure this we disable the interrupt.

The interrupt storm can be seen as follows after 7 hours of run
as reported by  Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>:

18:28:38          sum   1106.00
18:28:39          sum   1037.62
18:28:40          sum   1069.00
18:28:41          sum   1167.00
18:28:42          sum   1155.00
18:28:43          sum   1339.00
18:28:44          sum  18355.00
18:28:45          sum  17845.45
18:28:46          sum  15285.00
18:28:47          sum  17511.00
18:28:48          sum  17568.69
18:28:49          sum  17704.04
18:28:50          sum  18566.67
18:28:51          sum  18913.13

at 18:28:44 the MIB interrupt kicked off and caused huge
latency which can be seen even on a video he submitted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GeCx1gZMpASigned-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

IRQs should be disabled before calling free_irq. Also flush pending
IRQs. Pasted the kernel log message for reference.

kernel: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
kernel:  [<c0252d2c>] __report_bad_irq+0x2e/0x6f
kernel:  [<c0252f22>] note_interrupt+0x1b5/0x207
kernel:  [<c025258b>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x21/0x48
kernel:  [<c02534cb>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x8e/0xad
kernel:  [<c0205650>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0x84
kernel:  [<c020425f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
kernel:  [<c034f6f6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x198/0x205
kernel:  [<c044686c>] ? menu_select+0x5c/0x78
kernel:  [<c0445a95>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x59/0x89
kernel:  [<c02029d7>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xcf
kernel:  [<c0543102>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50
kernel:  =======================
kernel: handlers:
kernel: [<f88fdd26>] (ath_isr+0x0/0x13a [ath9k])
kernel: Disabling IRQ #17
Signed-off-by: NSenthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Tested-by: NSteven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Replace the internal ath9k implementation of multicast/broadcast frame
power save buffering (AP mode) in ath9k with use of mac80211
ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() mechanism. This removes quite a bit of
duplicated functionality and simplifies the driver part.
Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch removes ath_vap_listen() and dma wrapper macros.
Also, Inline abuse is cleaned up and a few typos are fixed.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Remove dead code, add newlines, fix indentation.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Use direct pci functions instead.
Also, use sc_ht_info.tx_chan_width directly and remove ath_cwm_macmode.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Add sc_rxflush and sc_noreset as bitfields to sc_flags.
Remove a few variables and function prototypes that are unused.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

ah_opmode and sc_opmode are redundant.
This patch removes sc_opmode.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Use a single enum for managing modes, store supported modes by
the HW in a bitmask.
Register legacy rates with mac80211 only at init.
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This adds the new mac80211 11n ath9k Atheros driver. Only STA support
is currently enabled and tested.
Signed-off-by: NSenthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: NVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>