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b43: fall back gracefully to PIO mode after fatal DMA errors
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This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when
DMA doesn't work.

The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user
reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it
automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is
wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO
case.

(Some post-2.6.33 merge fixups by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
and yours truly... -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored and John W. Linville committed Feb 26, 2010
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17 changes: 16 additions & 1 deletion drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config B43
depends on SSB_POSSIBLE && MAC80211 && HAS_DMA
select SSB
select FW_LOADER
select SSB_BLOCKIO
---help---
b43 is a driver for the Broadcom 43xx series wireless devices.

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If unsure, say N.

#Data transfers to the device via PIO. We want it as a fallback even
# if we can do DMA.
config B43_PIO
bool
depends on B43
select SSB_BLOCKIO
default y

config B43_NPHY
bool "Pre IEEE 802.11n support (BROKEN)"
depends on B43 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
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for production use.
Only say Y, if you are debugging a problem in the b43 driver sourcecode.

config B43_FORCE_PIO
bool "Force usage of PIO instead of DMA"
depends on B43 && B43_DEBUG
---help---
This will disable DMA and always enable PIO instead.

Say N!
This is only for debugging the PIO engine code. You do
_NOT_ want to enable this.
7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h
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Expand Up @@ -702,6 +702,7 @@ struct b43_wldev {
bool radio_hw_enable; /* saved state of radio hardware enabled state */
bool qos_enabled; /* TRUE, if QoS is used. */
bool hwcrypto_enabled; /* TRUE, if HW crypto acceleration is enabled. */
bool use_pio; /* TRUE if next init should use PIO */

/* PHY/Radio device. */
struct b43_phy phy;
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return dev->__using_pio_transfers;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO
# define B43_PIO_DEFAULT 1
#else
# define B43_PIO_DEFAULT 0
#endif

/* Message printing */
void b43info(struct b43_wl *wl, const char *fmt, ...)
__attribute__ ((format(printf, 2, 3)));
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14 changes: 8 additions & 6 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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Expand Up @@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ int b43_modparam_verbose = B43_VERBOSITY_DEFAULT;
module_param_named(verbose, b43_modparam_verbose, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "Log message verbosity: 0=error, 1=warn, 2=info(default), 3=debug");

static int modparam_pio;
module_param_named(pio, modparam_pio, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(pio, "enable(1) / disable(0) PIO mode");
int b43_modparam_pio = B43_PIO_DEFAULT;
module_param_named(pio, b43_modparam_pio, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(pio, "Use PIO accesses by default: 0=DMA, 1=PIO");

static const struct ssb_device_id b43_ssb_tbl[] = {
SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 5),
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dma_reason[4], dma_reason[5]);
b43err(dev->wl, "This device does not support DMA "
"on your system. Please use PIO instead.\n");
b43err(dev->wl, "Unload the b43 module and reload "
"with 'pio=1'\n");
/* Fall back to PIO transfers if we get fatal DMA errors! */
dev->use_pio = 1;
b43_controller_restart(dev, "DMA error");
return;
}
if (merged_dma_reason & B43_DMAIRQ_NONFATALMASK) {
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if ((dev->dev->bus->bustype == SSB_BUSTYPE_PCMCIA) ||
(dev->dev->bus->bustype == SSB_BUSTYPE_SDIO) ||
modparam_pio) {
dev->use_pio) {
dev->__using_pio_transfers = 1;
err = b43_pio_init(dev);
} else {
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if (!wldev)
goto out;

wldev->use_pio = b43_modparam_pio;
wldev->dev = dev;
wldev->wl = wl;
b43_set_status(wldev, B43_STAT_UNINIT);
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