After reports of poor performance, a review of the latest vendor driver
(rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007) for RTL8187L devices was undertaken.

A difference was found in the code used to index the OFDM power tables. When
the Linux driver was changed, my unit works at a much greater range than
before. I think this fixes Bugzilla #12380 and has been tested by at least
two other users.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NMartín Ernesto Barreyro <barreyromartin@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The RTL8187 and RTL8187B devices can stall unless an explicit termination
packet is sent.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Due to misunderstanding of the returned values allowed for the tx callback
of mac80211, rtl8187 was using skb's that had been freed. This problem was
triggered when the module was sujected to a rmmod/insmod cycle.

After that was fixed, the modules would not work after the rmmod/insmod cycle
until the USB device was reset.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

To be compatible with mac80211 following "mac80211: only create
default STA interface if supported", rtl8180 needs to set
NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION in interface_modes.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: NFabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Tested-by: NPiter PUNK <piterpunk@unitednerds.org>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Reported-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>

After the code was modified to use urb anchors ("rtl8187: Use usb anchor
facilities to manage urbs"), rtl8187 began generating an intermittent GPF
on shutdown when using SLUB with debugging enabled. Furthermore, rebooting
the system with a ping running caused a GPF every time. There are two problems:
(1) incorrect locking in the rtl8187_rx_cb() routine, a pre-existing bug that
apparently had not been triggered before, and (2) duplicate freeing of receive
skbs that was probably introduced with the change to anchors.
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There are two places in the rtl8187 code where a routine was returning zero
(OK) when it should have been returning an error.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When SLUB debugging is enabled in the kernel, and the boot command includes
the option "slub_debug=P", rtl8187 encounters a GPF due to a read-after-free
of a urb.

Following the example of changes in p54usb to fix the same problem, the code
has been modified to use the usb_anchor_urb() method. With this change, the
USB core handles the freeing of urb's.

This patch fixes the problem reported in Kernel Bugzilla #12185
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12185).
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The current wireless statistics for the RTL8187 poorly indicate the signal
strength and quality. With testing, I found that the AGC value is inversely
correlated with the strength as in the RTL8187B. By implementing a similar
calculation, much more code becomes common to the two devices.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested by: Martín Ernesto Barreyro <barreyromartin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

I mistakenly changed retry count passed in rtl8187_tx in previous change
"rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for
8187B". For 8187 it should represent the number of retries (retry count
limit). As explained by Johannes Berg, .count represents the number of
tries (not retries), and retries = tries - 1.
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In the commit entitled "mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control
API", the meaning of the packet transmit count was changed from the
number of retries to the total number.  In driver rtl8187, this change
was missed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

After considerable testing, the initial fears that the driver might damage
some flavors of RTL8187B hardware seem to be groundless. Accordingly, the
logged warning is removed. In addition, Kconfig is changed to remove the
dependence on EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger>
Acked-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Realtek 8187B has a receive command queue to feedback beacon interrupt
and transmitted packet status. Use it to feedback mac80211 about status
of transmitted packets. Unfortunately in the course of testing I found
that the sequence number reported by hardware includes entire sequence
control in a 12 bit only field, so a workaround is done to check only
lowest bits.
Tested-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Add conf_tx callback and use it to configure tx queues of 8187L/8187B.
Tested-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Hin-Tak Leung reported that after the change "rtl8187: add short slot
handling for 8187B" his RTL8187B started to give low throughput on
network transfers. Turns out that the SIFS setting used isn't ok, it
doesn't look to be the real aSIFSTime, using the "magical" 0x22 value
like on other 818x variants as the vendor does too fixes the issue.
Tested-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Modify the file comments to reflect the current maintainers.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This updates rtl8180 handling for short slot after "mac80211: fix short
slot handling". Only rtl8180_rtl8225 actually had code for handling
short slot times, so the other RF devices are untouched by this change.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This change improves the maintainability of these drivers. No functionality
is changed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>