This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ath9k_htc-fix-signal-strength-handling-issues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 838f427955dcfd16858b0108ce29029da0d56a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:37:25 +0100
Subject: ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 838f427955dcfd16858b0108ce29029da0d56a4e upstream.
The ath9k commit 2ef167557c0a26c88162ecffb017bfcc51eb7b29
(ath9k: fix signal strength reporting issues) fixed an issue where the
reported per-frame signal strength reported to mac80211 was being
overwritten with an internal average. The same issue is also present
in ath9k_htc.
In addition to preventing the driver from overwriting the value, this
commit also ensures that the internal average (which is used for ANI)
only tracks beacons of the AP that we're connected to.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/leds.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <net/mac80211.h>
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
@@ -1067,15 +1067,19 @@ static bool ath9k_rx_prepare(struct ath9
last_rssi = priv->rx.last_rssi;
- if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER))
- rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi,
- ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER);
+ if (ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control) &&
+ !is_zero_ether_addr(common->curbssid) &&
+ ether_addr_equal(hdr->addr3, common->curbssid)) {
+ s8 rssi = rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi;
- if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi < 0)
- rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = 0;
+ if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER))
+ rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi, ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER);
- if (ieee80211_is_beacon(fc))
- priv->ah->stats.avgbrssi = rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi;
+ if (rssi < 0)
+ rssi = 0;
+
+ priv->ah->stats.avgbrssi = rssi;
+ }
rx_status->mactime = be64_to_cpu(rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_tstamp);
rx_status->band = hw->conf.channel->band;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/ath9k_htc-fix-signal-strength-handling-issues.patch
queue-3.8/ath9k-fix-rssi-dummy-marker-value.patch
queue-3.8/ath9k_hw-improve-reset-reliability-after-errors.patch
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