RX Stress tests of unidirectional bulk traffic with
bitrates of up to 220Mbit/s have revealed that the
fatal-event recovery logic [which was solely triggered
by an out-of-rx-buffer situation] is too aggressive.

The new method now "pings" the device and then
decides - based on the response - whenever
a restart is needed or not.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because
of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn.
Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were
left with the job of filtering.

This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive
in terms of latency, memory and load.

Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible
filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to
offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check,
RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible.

Note:
This patch also includes all changes to the
shared headers files since the inclusion.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch removes some cruft, which survived
the RFC review phase.

Originally, carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue erroneously
dropped a lot of frames. As a result the ampdu
scheduler bogged down quite frequently and the
affected BA session timed out.

However this bug has been fixed and the WA and
its debugfs counter is no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The driver has a set of different initvals for 20 MHz
vs dynamic HT2040 operation. Because we can't change
some of the registers "in-flight", the driver needs to
perform a warm reset.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

According to Atheros, chain 1 is not connected.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>