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>

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>

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>

The latest vendor driver (rtl8187B_linux_26.1036.0708.2008) has a different
CCK power setting code as compared with the Linux driver.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: NPiter Punk <piterpk@terra.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Each of the primary write routines, rtl8187_write_phy(),
rtl8225_write_bitbang(), and rtl8225_write_8051() all conclude with an
msleep() command. Testing shows that these are not needed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-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>

Routine rtl8225_write() calls either rtl8225_write_bitbang() or
rtl8225_write_8051(), both of which end with an msleep() command. As a
result, a rtl8225_write() immediately followed by an msleep() is not needed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-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>

Routine rtl8225_write_phy_cck() calls rtl8225_write_phy(), which concludes
with a sleep of 1 msec; therefore a call to rtl8225_write_phy_cck()
immediately followed by an msleep(1) is not needed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@larry.finger>
Tested-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>

Routine rtl8225_write_phy_ofdm() calls rtl8225_write_phy(), which concludes
with a sleep of 1 msec; therefore a call to rtl8225_write_phy_ofdm()
immediately followed by an msleep(1) is not needed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@larry.finger>
Tested-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>

The rtl8187 driver contains 3 sleep statements that are longer than
a second. Testing has shown no bad effects when they are removed.
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-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>

This change adds short slot handling for 8187B variant of rtl8187 chips.
Some things to note about changes done:
* Values used are chosen to met 802.11-2007 spec. This raised a question
  about SIFS value used with 8187L: 0x22 (34) doesn't match any spec
  value. For now just don't change 8187L, but is something to be
  looked at.
* On 8187B, the location of EIFS register is at the same place as BRSR+1
  of struct rtl818x_csr. Unfortunately there is no clean way to
  accomodate 8187B differences currently, just use address of BRSR+1 and
  comment about it. The same thing happens for Ack timeout register,
  that is on CARRIER_SENSE_COUNTER location of 8187L. The eifs and ack
  timeout values are in units of 4us. All these registers information
  was gathered from references being the vendor gpl driver and 8180
  datasheet, unfortunately there is no information about this on 8187B
  datasheet. Also the ack timeout value was inspired by the same
  calculation as done on rt2x00.
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

For RTL8187B it seems we need special values too for ANAPARAM*_OFF
values (and not use RTL8187 ones). The ANAPARAM*_OFF values used are the
stock ones read from the hardware after a cold boot.
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8180 and
rtl8185 PCI wireless cards.  Also included are some rtl8187 changes
required due to the relationship between that driver and this one.

Michael Wu is primarily responsible for the initial driver and rtl8185
support.  Andreas Merello provided the additional rtl8180 support.

Thanks to Jukka Ruohonen for the donating a rtl8185 card! It was very
helpful for the rtl8225z2 code.

The Signed-off-by information below is collected from the individual
patches submitted to wireless-2.6 before merging this driver upstream.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This reverts commit e4128a54d790658ab265c915e5da9153ff74af97.

On Sunday 02 December 2007 17:17:51 Michael Wu wrote:
> CCK and OFDM power levels are stored in adjacent bytes, not nibbles.
>
This turns out to be true only for rtl8180. On rtl8187, power levels are
indeed stored in nibbles, so this patch is wrong. Please revert this patch.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

CCK and OFDM power levels are stored in adjacent bytes, not nibbles.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

I failed to notice that a u16 was being passed to the hardware.
This fixes it.

Thanks to Kasper F. Brandt for finding this!
Signed-off-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Add top-of-file comment blocks to rtl818x headers and attribute origin
of magic values to original r8187 driver.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8187 USB
wireless card.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>