The TX descriptors are consumed by the HW using DMA.
Even if in the driver code the memory write that sets the "valid"
flag appears after all other writes, the CPU may reorder writes,
causing the HW to consider as valid a not-fully-written yet
descriptor.

This may cause HW incorrect behaviour.

This can happen because (AFAIK) the HW may attempt DMA
asynchronously without waiting to be kicked by the following
register write.

This patch adds a write memory barrier to enforce writes ordering.
Reported-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Certain HW options (TX packet retry count, CW configuration and
TX power configuration) can be specified in both the TX packet
descriptor and also into HW "global" registers.

The HW is thus configured to honour the global register or the
TX descriptor field depending by the case.

This patch adds few comments that hopefully clarify in which cases
the driver uses one method and in which cases it uses the other.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

During driver initialization, some skbs are preallocated for RX.
Currenly if the allocation fails, the driver's allocation routine
exits immediatly but it will return zero (success) anyway.

In this way the driver will continue initialization with buggy
pointers around.

This patch makes the driver's allocation routine to return
an error value and to print a complaint message when skb allocation
fails.
In this way its caller will not go further, avoinding the driver to
successfully load, and preventing dereferencing buggy pointers.

An hint is thus printed about why the driver failed.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

During initialization a number of RX skbs are allocated and mapped
for DMA.
Currently if pci_map_single() fails, it will result in passing to the
HW a wrong DMA address (to write to!).

This patch adds check for this condition and eventually causes the
driver not to initialize, avoiding at least dangerous DMAs.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently the driver uses pci_iomap() but iounmap() is called in
the error path

Change to use pci_iounmap() instead.
Reported-by: NHuqiu Liu <liuhq11@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently the contention window enable/disable HW flag is not
touched by the driver.

This patch explicitly set it to the correct value to make sure
contention window is enabled (AFAIK contention window must be
enabled in most (if not all) cases.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In rtl8180/rtl8187 drivers, few register bit definitions have
names of form FOOBAR_SHIFT, suggesting they should be used as
shift offset, for example
reg |= (1 << ENABLE_FOO_SHIFT).

However they are actually defined as (1 << x) and thus they are
used (correctly) like
reg |= ENABLE_FOO_SHIFT;

This patch kills the misleading _SHIFT suffix.
Signed-off-by: Nandrea merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Orignal code will not detect a DMA mapping failure, causing the HW
to attempt a DMA from an invalid address.

This patch add the error check and eventually simply drops the TX
packet if we can't map it for DMA.
Signed-off-by: Nandrea merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In original code the old RX DMA buffer is unmapped and processed and at the end
of the isr a new buffer is mapped with pci_map_single and attached to the RX
descriptor.

If pci_map_single fails then the RX descriptor remains with no valid DMA buffer
attached.
In this condition the DMA will target where it shouldn't with obvious evil
consequences.

Simply avoiding re-arming the descriptor will prevent buggy DMA but it will
result soon in RX stuck.

This patch move the DMA mapping of the new buffer at the beginning of the ISR
(and it adds error check for pci_map_single success/fail).

If the DMA mapping fails then we do not unmap the old buffer and we re-arm the
descriptor without processing it, with the old DMA buffer still attached.

In this way we lose the currently RX-ed packet, but whenever next calls to
pci_map_single will succeed again,then the RX process will go on without stuck.
Signed-off-by: Nandrea merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: NGertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release
or on probe failure. Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the
device driver data to NULL.
Signed-off-by: NJingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

A lot of files contain reference to my old e-mail address.
Now I'm going not to read mail from it anymore, so update it
with my current address everywhere.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.
Signed-off-by: NKarl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As result the __dev*
markings will be going away.

Remove use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata, __devinitconst,
and __devexit.
Signed-off-by: NBill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Allow drivers to indicate their mactime is at RX completion and adjust
for this in mac80211. Also rename the existing RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU to
RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START to clarify its intent. Based on similar code by
Johannes Berg.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[fix docs, atheros drivers]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Convert the existing uses of random_ether_addr to
the new eth_random_addr.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NGertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

from windows driver:
0x1186, 0x3301 D-Link Air DWL-510 Wireless PCI Adapter
0x1432, 0x7106 LevelOne WPC-0101 11Mbps Wireless PCMCIA CardBus Adapter
Signed-off-by: NXose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch converts the drivers in drivers/net/wireless/* to use
module_pci_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit simpler.
Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: NLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The device.h header was including module.h, making it present for
most of these drivers.  But we want to clean that up.  Call out the
include of module.h in the modular network drivers.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

TSF can be kept per vif.
Add ieee80211_vif param to set/get/reset_tsf, and move
the debugfs entries to the per-vif directory.

Update all the drivers that implement these callbacks.
Signed-off-by: NEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

* remove interrupt.g inclusion from netdevice.h -- not needed
* fixup fallout, add interrupt.h and hardirq.h back where needed.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

These drivers share one header file, but nothing else.  Worse, both
drivers use the rtl8225 part with different register settings.  The
results has been some ugly naming -- let's simplify that.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>

This reverts commit 030725d2.

This commit relies on commit 5ed3bc72
("mac80211: use netif_receive_skb in ieee80211_tx_status callpath")
Unfortunately not all drivers are calling ieee80211_tx_status from a
compatible context, so that commit needs to be reverted in 2.6.36.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Commit c96c31e4
"(drivers/net/wireless: Use wiphy_<level>)"
inadvertently changed some upper case words to
lower case.  Restore the original case.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

ieee80211_beacon_get can return NULL...
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Standardize the logging macros used.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Adapted from Realtek-provided driver...
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested-by: NPauli Nieminen <suokkos@gmail.com>

The existing code seemed to be somewhat based on the datasheet, but
varied substantially from the vendor-provided driver.  This mirrors the
handling of the rtl8185 case from that driver, but still neglects the
specifics for the rtl8180 hardware.  Those details are a bit muddled...
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

From the original report:

"I had problems to get my rtl8185 PCI card running on Sparc64: I always
got an error about "No suitable DMA available" followed by an error
that no device could be detected. When comparing the rtl8180 driver to
others I noticed that others are mostly using DMA_BIT_MASK so I changed
the custom mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(32) which fixed my issue."
Reported-by: NTiziano Müller <tm@dev-zero.ch>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Device documentation suggests that hardware support for beaconing
is available.  But I implemented software-based beacon generation
as an experiment and it seems better to have that working now rather
than waiting for something better to materialize.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This is a step towards support for beaconing modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When reporting Tx status, indicate that only one rate was used.
Otherwise, the rate is frozen at rate index 0 (i.e. 1Mb/s).
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>