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Linus Torvalds
9e3bd91908 b43: fall back gracefully to PIO mode after fatal DMA errors
This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when
DMA doesn't work.

The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user
reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it
automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is
wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO
case.

(Some post-2.6.33 merge fixups by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
and yours truly... -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-26 17:26:16 -05:00
Larry Finger
b02914af4d b43: Allow PIO mode to be selected at module load
If userencounter the "Fatal DMA Problem" with a BCM43XX device, and
still wish to use b43 as the driver, their only option is to rebuild
the kernel with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO. This patch removes this option and
allows PIO mode to be selected with a load-time parameter for the module.
Note that the configuration variable CONFIG_B43_PIO is also removed.

Once the DMA problem with the BCM4312 devices is solved, this patch will
likely be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:31:28 -05:00
John W. Linville
133d7c6a50 wireless: remove WLAN_80211 and WLAN_PRE80211 from Kconfig
With the WLAN_PRE80211 drivers moved to drivers/staging, this
distinction becomes unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:35 -04:00
Michael Buesch
4963cceea8 b43: Remove BROKEN attribute from SDIO
SDIO works (more or less), so remove the BROKEN dependency and
let people test it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:45 -04:00
Albert Herranz
3dbba8e281 b43: Add Soft-MAC SDIO device support
This adds support for Soft-MAC SDIO devices to b43.
The driver still lacks some fixes for SDIO devices, so it's currently
marked as BROKEN.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:43 -04:00
Michael Buesch
fd413da852 b43: PCMCIA is not experimental anymore
PCMCIA support works well and is not experimental anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-08 16:31:10 -04:00
Gábor Stefanik
867b2efe68 b43: Enable LP-PHY support by default and remove Kconfig warning
The most common LP-PHY device, BCM4312, is now fully functional.
So, no need to say "probably won't work for you" anymore.
It's also not "for debuggers and developers only", as it is
perfectly usable for end-users now (at least for BCM4312).

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:55 -04:00
Gábor Stefanik
86b2892a22 b43: LP-PHY: Remove BROKEN from B43_PHY_LP
Larry has reported success getting scan data with an LP-PHY device,
so it's probably time to release LP-PHY support for testing.

Also disable 802.11a support for now, as 802.11a currently causes
the driver to panic on startup (NULL pointer dereference).

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f41f3f373d b43/legacy: port to cfg80211 rfkill
This ports the b43/legacy rfkill code to the new API offered
by cfg80211 and thus removes a lot of useless stuff.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:27:54 -04:00
Johannes Berg
19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Michael Buesch
616de35da9 b43: Do not "select" HW_RANDOM
Auto-depend on HW_RANDOM, rather than "select"ing it.
This way the user has the choice to enable or disable HWRNG support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:54:29 -04:00
Michael Buesch
060210f938 b43: Dynamically control log verbosity
Dynamically control the log verbosity with a module parameter.
This enables us to dynamically enable debugging messages (or disable
info, warn, error messages) via module parameter or /sys/module/b43/parameters/verbose.

This increases the module size by about 3k. But in practice it reduces the
module size for the user, because some distributions ship the b43 module
with CONFIG_B43_DEBUG set, which increases the module by about 15k.

So with this patch applied, distributions should really _disable_ CONFIG_B43_DEBUG.
There is no reason to keep it in a production-release kernel.
So we have a net reduction in size by about 12k.

This patch also adds a printk of the wireless core revision, so people
don't have to enable SSB debugging to get the wireless core revision.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 16:01:47 -05:00
Michael Buesch
e63e436326 b43: Add LP-PHY template
This adds template code for the LP-PHY.
No actual functionality is implemented.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:43 -04:00
Al Viro
46cb69ccdf missing dependencies on HAS_DMA
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-21 16:55:59 -07:00
Michael Buesch
d8c17e1597 b43: Use SSB block-I/O to do PIO
This changes the b43-PIO code to use the new SSB block-I/O.
This reduces the overhead by removing lots of function calls, pointer
dereferencing, if-conditionals any byteswapping for each packet data word.

This also fixes a harmless sparse endianness warning.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 16:44:41 -04:00
Michael Buesch
5100d5ac81 b43: Add PIO support for PCMCIA devices
This adds PIO support back (D'oh!) for PCMCIA devices.
This is a complete rewrite of the old PIO code. It does actually work
and we get reasonable performance out of it on a modern machine.
On a PowerBook G4 I get a few MBit for TX and a few more for RX.
So it doesn't work as well as DMA (of course), but it's a _lot_ faster
than the old PIO code (only got a few kBit with that).

The limiting factor is the host CPU speed. So it will generate 100%
CPU usage when the network interface is heavily loaded. A voluntary preemption
point in the RX path makes sure Desktop Latency isn't hurt.

PIO is needed for 16bit PCMCIA devices, as we really don't want to poke with
the braindead DMA mechanisms on PCMCIA sockets. Additionally, not all
PCMCIA sockets do actually support DMA in 16bit mode (mine doesn't).

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 15:05:56 -04:00
Alexey Zaytsev
c7084535c9 Use a separate config option for the b43 pci to ssb bridge.
The bridge code was unnecessary enabled by the b44
driver, but it prevents the bcm43xx driver from
being loaded, as the bridge claims the same pci ids.

Now we enable the birdge only if the b43{legacy}
drivers are selected.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-28 09:13:10 -05:00
Michael Buesch
d5c71e4641 b43: Add NPHY kconfig option
This adds a new Kconfig option for enabling probing of N-PHYs.
This option will be removed again once the stuff works.
For now it is to help in development. This way real users won't
execute the broken N-PHY codepaths, but the developers can easily
enable N-PHY stuff.

To enable N-PHY probing simply remove the BROKEN dependency
and enable the option in the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:20 -08:00
Michael Buesch
03b29773b6 b43: Remove PIO support
Remove b43 PIO support.
DMA works well on all supported devices. There's no reason to use PIO.
Additionally, new devices don't support PIO in hardware anymore.
b43 PIO support is dead and unused code.

After applying this patch please do
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.h
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.c
to remove the main PIO support code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:17 -08:00
Michael Buesch
bdb3f751cf b43: Fix kconfig dependencies for rfkill and leds
Fix dependencies for built-in b43.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:14 -05:00
Michael Buesch
42bb4cd5ae [B43]: Use input-polldev for the rfkill switch
This removes the direct call to rfkill on an rfkill event
and replaces it with an input device. This way userspace is also
notified about the event.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:13 -07:00
Michael Buesch
8e9f7529fd [B43]: RF-kill support
This adds full support for the RFKILL button and
the RFKILL LED trigger.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:12 -07:00
Michael Buesch
21954c367e [B43]: LED triggers support
Drive the LEDs through the generic LED triggers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:11 -07:00
Michael Buesch
e4d6b79518 [B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:37 -07:00