linux-kernel - [patch 059/176] ath9k_hw: do PA offset calibration only on longcal interval

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Message-Id: <20110216002105.008874550@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:20:27 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>,
	Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [patch 059/176] ath9k_hw: do PA offset calibration only on longcal interval

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>

commit 811ea256b30b37091b5bbf41517404cf98ab56c1 upstream.

The power detector adc offset calibration has to be done
on 4 minutes interval (longcal * pa_skip_count). But the commit
"ath9k_hw: fix a noise floor calibration related race condition"
makes the PA calibration executed more frequently beased on
nfcal_pending value. Running PAOffset calibration lesser than
longcal interval doesn't help anything and the worse part is that
it causes NF load timeouts and RX deaf conditions.

In a very noisy environment, where the distance b/w AP & station
is ~10 meter and running a downlink udp traffic with frequent
background scan causes "Timeout while waiting for nf to load:
AR_PHY_AGC_CONTROL=0x40d1a" and moves the chip into deaf state.
This issue was originaly reported in Android platform where
the network-manager application does bgscan more frequently
on AR9271 chips. (AR9285 family usb device).

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9002_calib.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9002_calib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9002_calib.c
@@ -710,10 +710,6 @@ static bool ar9002_hw_calibrate(struct a

 	/* Do NF cal only at longer intervals */
 	if (longcal || nfcal_pending) {
-		/* Do periodic PAOffset Cal */
-		ar9002_hw_pa_cal(ah, false);
-		ar9002_hw_olc_temp_compensation(ah);
-
 		/*
 		 * Get the value from the previous NF cal and update
 		 * history buffer.
@@ -728,8 +724,12 @@ static bool ar9002_hw_calibrate(struct a
 			ath9k_hw_loadnf(ah, ah->curchan);
 		}

-		if (longcal)
+		if (longcal) {
 			ath9k_hw_start_nfcal(ah, false);
+			/* Do periodic PAOffset Cal */
+			ar9002_hw_pa_cal(ah, false);
+			ar9002_hw_olc_temp_compensation(ah);
+		}
 	}

 	return iscaldone;

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