The interrupt of the wl12xx is a level interrupt in nature, since the
interrupt line is not auto-reset. However, since resetting the interrupt
requires bus transactions, this cannot be done from an interrupt
context. Thus, requesting a level interrupt would require to disable the
irq and re-enable it after the HW is acknowledged. Since we now request
a threaded irq, this can also be done by specifying the IRQF_ONESHOT
flag.
Triggering on an edge can be problematic in some platforms, if the
sampling frequency is not sufficient for detecting very frequent
interrupts. In case an interrupt is missed, the driver will hang as the
interrupt line will stay high until it is acknowledged by the driver,
which will never happen.
Fix this by requesting a level triggered interrupt, with the
IRQF_ONESHOT flag.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To achieve maximal throughput, it is very important to react to
interrupts as soon as possible. Currently the interrupt handler wakes up
a worker for handling interrupts in process context. A cleaner and more
efficient design would be to request a threaded interrupt handler. This
handler's priority is very high, and can do blocking operations such as
SDIO/SPI transactions.
Some work can be deferred, mostly calls to mac80211 APIs
(ieee80211_rx_ni and ieee80211_tx_status). By deferring such work to a
different worker, we can keep the irq handler thread more I/O
responsive. In addition, on multi-core systems the two threads can be
scheduled on different cores, which will improve overall performance.
The use of WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_PENDING & WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_RUNNING was
changed. For simplicity, always query the FW for more pending
interrupts. Since there are relatively long bursts of interrupts, the
extra FW status read overhead is negligible. In addition, this enables
registering the IRQ handler with the ONESHOT option.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
In wl12xx cards AP-mode requires a separate FW file. Add this file to
the module info.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
If debugging is turned on, then wl1271_dump() dereferences a freed
variable.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
All files name prefix removed due to the fact that wl12xx driver supports
wl1271 and wl1273.
Also the definition in Kconfig and header files changed respectively.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Now that all 1271 files are split, we can add wl1251_ prefix to the files.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vidhya Govindan <vidhya.govindan@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for block reading (multiple bytes) from a fixed chipset
register address. This is required for the wl1271 TX data path.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the wl1271 implementation, we need to read memory from the register
partition using fixed addresses. This change adds the possibility to request
fixed address when calling wl12xx_spi_read() or wl12xx_spi_reg_read().
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some cases we need to read more than 32 bits from the register area.
These functions were added to support that, like the existing
wl12xx_spi_mem_read() and wl12xx_spi_mem_write() already do for large blocks
in the memory area.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wl12xx is a driver for TI wl1251 802.11 chipset designed for embedded
devices, supporting both SDIO and SPI busses. Currently the driver
supports only SPI. Adding support 1253 (the 5 GHz version) should be
relatively easy. More information here:
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?contentId=4711&navigationId=12494&templateId=6123
(Collapsed original sequence of pre-merge patches into single commit for
initial merge. -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
