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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/wireless, branch v3.3.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rtlwifi: Add missing DMA buffer unmapping for PCI drivers</title>
<updated>2012-04-22T22:38:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-26T15:48:20+00:00</published>
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commit 673f7786e205c87b5d978c62827b9a66d097bebb upstream.

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver
rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These
are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped.

This bug was also reported at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618

Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue &lt;da@lessconfused.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 673f7786e205c87b5d978c62827b9a66d097bebb upstream.

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver
rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These
are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped.

This bug was also reported at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618

Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue &lt;da@lessconfused.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>rtlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine</title>
<updated>2012-04-22T22:38:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-19T20:44:31+00:00</published>
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commit a7959c1394d4126a70a53b914ce4105f5173d0aa upstream.

The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to
acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When
_usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is
a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is
reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775.
The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could
be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from
within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync()
by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and
allocating the buffer data in the probe routine.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a7959c1394d4126a70a53b914ce4105f5173d0aa upstream.

The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to
acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When
_usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is
a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is
reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775.
The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could
be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from
within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync()
by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and
allocating the buffer data in the probe routine.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "ath9k: fix going to full-sleep on PS idle"</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T16:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sujith Manoharan</name>
<email>c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-10T06:56:11+00:00</published>
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commit 011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c upstream.

This reverts commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214.

Users have reported connection failures in 3.3.1 and suspend/resume
failures in 3.4-rcX. Revert this commit for now - PS IDLE can be
fixed in a clean manner later on.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan &lt;c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c upstream.

This reverts commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214.

Users have reported connection failures in 3.3.1 and suspend/resume
failures in 3.4-rcX. Revert this commit for now - PS IDLE can be
fixed in a clean manner later on.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan &lt;c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iwlegacy: do not nulify il-&gt;vif on reset</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T16:13:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislaw Gruszka</name>
<email>sgruszka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-13T15:11:27+00:00</published>
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commit 883a649b737cdbe3ede7e50f3f939fd706ed5c4e upstream.

This il-&gt;vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do
not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion
with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap().

Additionally this should address also
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface
at least one of the possible reasons of that warning.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 883a649b737cdbe3ede7e50f3f939fd706ed5c4e upstream.

This il-&gt;vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do
not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion
with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap().

Additionally this should address also
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface
at least one of the possible reasons of that warning.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath9k: fix max noise floor threshold</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T16:13:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rajkumar Manoharan</name>
<email>rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-15T00:38:04+00:00</published>
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commit 2ee0a07028d2cde6e131b73f029dae2b93c50f3a upstream.

Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The
assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help
de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous
interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are
collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too
much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips
specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the
connection stability in congested networks.

Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gary Morain &lt;gmorain@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan &lt;madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan &lt;rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2ee0a07028d2cde6e131b73f029dae2b93c50f3a upstream.

Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The
assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help
de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous
interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are
collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too
much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips
specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the
connection stability in congested networks.

Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gary Morain &lt;gmorain@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan &lt;madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan &lt;rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: rtl8192cu: rtl8192de: Fix low-gain setting when scanning</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T16:13:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-26T14:59:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba'/>
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commit 643c61e119459e9d750087b7b34be94491efebf9 upstream.

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207, slowdowns of driver
rtl8192ce are reported. One fix (commit a9b89e2) has already been applied,
and it helped, but the maximum RX speed would still drop to 1 Mbps. As in
the previous fix, the initial gain was determined to be the problem; however,
the problem arises from a setting of the gain when scans are started.

Driver rtl8192de also has the same code structure - this one is fixed as well.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Ivan Pesin &lt;ivan.pesin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 643c61e119459e9d750087b7b34be94491efebf9 upstream.

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207, slowdowns of driver
rtl8192ce are reported. One fix (commit a9b89e2) has already been applied,
and it helped, but the maximum RX speed would still drop to 1 Mbps. As in
the previous fix, the initial gain was determined to be the problem; however,
the problem arises from a setting of the gain when scans are started.

Driver rtl8192de also has the same code structure - this one is fixed as well.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Ivan Pesin &lt;ivan.pesin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtlwifi: Convert to asynchronous firmware load</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T17:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-30T15:54:49+00:00</published>
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commit b0302aba812bcc39291cdab9ad7e37008f352a91 upstream.

This patch addresses a kernel bugzilla report and two recent mail threads.

The kernel bugzilla report is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42632,
which reports a udev timeout on boot.

The first mail thread, which was on LKML (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/
linux/kernel/1112.3/00965.html) was for a WARNING that occurs after a
suspend/resume cycle for rtl8192cu.

The scond mail thread (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&amp;m=132655490826766&amp;w=2)
concerned changes in udev that break drivers that delay while firmware is loaded
on modprobe.

This patch converts all rtlwifi-based drivers to use the asynchronous firmware
loading mechanism. Drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu and rtl8192de share a common
callback routine. Driver rtl8192se needs different handling of the firmware,
thus it has its own code.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit b0302aba812bcc39291cdab9ad7e37008f352a91 upstream.

This patch addresses a kernel bugzilla report and two recent mail threads.

The kernel bugzilla report is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42632,
which reports a udev timeout on boot.

The first mail thread, which was on LKML (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/
linux/kernel/1112.3/00965.html) was for a WARNING that occurs after a
suspend/resume cycle for rtl8192cu.

The scond mail thread (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&amp;m=132655490826766&amp;w=2)
concerned changes in udev that break drivers that delay while firmware is loaded
on modprobe.

This patch converts all rtlwifi-based drivers to use the asynchronous firmware
loading mechanism. Drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu and rtl8192de share a common
callback routine. Driver rtl8192se needs different handling of the firmware,
thus it has its own code.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>p54spi: Release GPIO lines and IRQ on error in p54spi_probe</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T17:31:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-29T20:40:08+00:00</published>
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commit 62ebeed8d00aef75eac4fd6c161cae75a41965ca upstream.

This makes it possible to reload driver if insmod has failed due to
missing firmware.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter &lt;chunkeey@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 62ebeed8d00aef75eac4fd6c161cae75a41965ca upstream.

This makes it possible to reload driver if insmod has failed due to
missing firmware.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter &lt;chunkeey@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath9k: fix going to full-sleep on PS idle</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T17:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-10T12:57:04+00:00</published>
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commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214 upstream.

The check for PS_WAIT_FOR_TX_ACK was inverted, the hardware should only go
to full sleep if no tx is pending.

Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan &lt;c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214 upstream.

The check for PS_WAIT_FOR_TX_ACK was inverted, the hardware should only go
to full sleep if no tx is pending.

Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan &lt;c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iwlwifi: always monitor for stuck queues</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T17:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-04T16:50:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b095ac6bb999e75e7e032881ceb950fe2e33cf66'/>
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commit 342bbf3fee2fa9a18147e74b2e3c4229a4564912 upstream.

If we only monitor while associated, the following
can happen:
 - we're associated, and the queue stuck check
   runs, setting the queue "touch" time to X
 - we disassociate, stopping the monitoring,
   which leaves the time set to X
 - almost 2s later, we associate, and enqueue
   a frame
 - before the frame is transmitted, we monitor
   for stuck queues, and find the time set to
   X, although it is now later than X + 2000ms,
   so we decide that the queue is stuck and
   erroneously restart the device

It happens more with P2P because there we can
go between associated/unassociated frequently.

Reported-by: Ben Cahill &lt;ben.m.cahill@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy &lt;wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 342bbf3fee2fa9a18147e74b2e3c4229a4564912 upstream.

If we only monitor while associated, the following
can happen:
 - we're associated, and the queue stuck check
   runs, setting the queue "touch" time to X
 - we disassociate, stopping the monitoring,
   which leaves the time set to X
 - almost 2s later, we associate, and enqueue
   a frame
 - before the frame is transmitted, we monitor
   for stuck queues, and find the time set to
   X, although it is now later than X + 2000ms,
   so we decide that the queue is stuck and
   erroneously restart the device

It happens more with P2P because there we can
go between associated/unassociated frequently.

Reported-by: Ben Cahill &lt;ben.m.cahill@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy &lt;wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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