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    • Ivo van Doorn's avatar
      rt2x00: Fix race conditions in flag handling · 0262ab0d
      Ivo van Doorn authored
      
      Some of the flags should be accessed atomically to
      prevent race conditions. The flags that are most important
      are those that can change often and indicate the actual
      state of the device, queue or queue entry.
      
      The big flag rename was done to move all state flags to
      the same naming type as the other rt2x00dev flags and
      made sure all places where the flags were used were changed. ;)
      
      Thanks to Stephen for most of the queue flags updates,
      which fixes some of the most obvious consequences of the
      race conditions. Among those the notorious:
      
      rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the non-full queue 0.
      rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the non-full queue 0.
      rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the non-full queue 0.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      0262ab0d
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    • Bruno Randolf's avatar
      mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units · 566bfe5a
      Bruno Randolf authored
      
      trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
      confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
      what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
      the wireless extensions.
      
      this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
      clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
      provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
      
      for signal:
      
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW
      
      for noise we currently only have dBm:
      
        IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW
      
      if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
      to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
      to make sense of the signal values.
      
      i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
      but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
      doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
      the hardware flags of the driver.
      
      DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
      -----------------------------------------------------------------
      adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
      at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
      ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
      b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
      b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
      iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
      iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
      p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
      rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
        rt2400        dBm             n/a
        rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
        rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
        rt61pci       dBm             n/a
        rt73usb       dBm             n/a
      rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
      rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
      zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent
      
      drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      566bfe5a
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