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b43: reinit on too many PHY TX errors
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Restart the hardware on too many PHY TX errors. A thousand PHY TX errors
per 15 seconds means we won't be able to recover for sure.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Stefano Brivio authored and David S. Miller committed Jan 28, 2008
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h
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Expand Up @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ enum {
#define B43_DEFAULT_SHORT_RETRY_LIMIT 7
#define B43_DEFAULT_LONG_RETRY_LIMIT 4

#define B43_PHY_TX_BADNESS_LIMIT 1000

/* Max size of a security key */
#define B43_SEC_KEYSIZE 16
/* Security algorithms. */
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/* OFDM address read/write caching for hardware auto-increment. */
u16 ofdm_addr;
u8 ofdm_valid; /* 0: invalid, 1: read, 2: write */

/* PHY TX errors counter. */
atomic_t txerr_cnt;
};

/* Data structures for DMA transmission, per 80211 core. */
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17 changes: 16 additions & 1 deletion drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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Expand Up @@ -1394,8 +1394,17 @@ static void b43_interrupt_tasklet(struct b43_wldev *dev)
if (unlikely(reason & B43_IRQ_MAC_TXERR))
b43err(dev->wl, "MAC transmission error\n");

if (unlikely(reason & B43_IRQ_PHY_TXERR))
if (unlikely(reason & B43_IRQ_PHY_TXERR)) {
b43err(dev->wl, "PHY transmission error\n");
rmb();
if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&dev->phy.txerr_cnt))) {
atomic_set(&dev->phy.txerr_cnt,
B43_PHY_TX_BADNESS_LIMIT);
b43err(dev->wl, "Too many PHY TX errors, "
"restarting the controller\n");
b43_controller_restart(dev, "PHY TX errors");
}
}

if (unlikely(merged_dma_reason & (B43_DMAIRQ_FATALMASK |
B43_DMAIRQ_NONFATALMASK))) {
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/* OFDM address caching. */
phy->ofdm_valid = 0;

/* PHY TX errors counter. */
atomic_set(&phy->txerr_cnt, B43_PHY_TX_BADNESS_LIMIT);

err = 0;
b43dbg(dev->wl, "Chip initialized\n");
out:
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}
b43_phy_xmitpower(dev); //FIXME: unless scanning?
//TODO for APHY (temperature?)

atomic_set(&phy->txerr_cnt, B43_PHY_TX_BADNESS_LIMIT);
wmb();
}

static void do_periodic_work(struct b43_wldev *dev)
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