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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2012-06-06 13:55:02 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-06-17 11:21:25 -0700
commitf4c3d440c898725132291e5171b3244c2027c30e (patch)
tree487d1067de1c9ed35dc03a94ef44fe6bd9d6ceb6
parent5ca732f5673f2a1fa9e4d6451259ae5891fa6b60 (diff)
iwlwifi: disable the buggy chain extension feature in HW
commit d012d04e4d6312ea157b6cf19e9689af934f5aa7 upstream. This feature has been reported to be buggy and enabled by default. We therefore need to disable it manually. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
index 3b1069290fa9..dfd54662e3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
#define SCD_TXFACT (SCD_BASE + 0x10)
#define SCD_ACTIVE (SCD_BASE + 0x14)
#define SCD_QUEUECHAIN_SEL (SCD_BASE + 0xe8)
+#define SCD_CHAINEXT_EN (SCD_BASE + 0x244)
#define SCD_AGGR_SEL (SCD_BASE + 0x248)
#define SCD_INTERRUPT_MASK (SCD_BASE + 0x108)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
index 4d7b30d3e648..66df0166cfdc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
@@ -1128,6 +1128,11 @@ static void iwl_tx_start(struct iwl_trans *trans)
iwl_write_prph(trans, SCD_DRAM_BASE_ADDR,
trans_pcie->scd_bc_tbls.dma >> 10);
+ /* The chain extension of the SCD doesn't work well. This feature is
+ * enabled by default by the HW, so we need to disable it manually.
+ */
+ iwl_write_prph(trans, SCD_CHAINEXT_EN, 0);
+
/* Enable DMA channel */
for (chan = 0; chan < FH_TCSR_CHNL_NUM ; chan++)
iwl_write_direct32(trans, FH_TCSR_CHNL_TX_CONFIG_REG(chan),