linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 035/149] rt2800: fix wrong TX power compensation

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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:46:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Stanislaw Gruszka" <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 035/149] rt2800: fix wrong TX power compensation

3.2.52-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>

commit 6e956da2027c767859128b9bfef085cf2a8e233b upstream.

We should not do temperature compensation on devices without
EXTERNAL_TX_ALC bit set (called DynamicTxAgcControl on vendor driver).
Such devices can have totally bogus TSSI parameters on the EEPROM,
but still threaded by us as valid and result doing wrong TX power
calculations.

This fix inability to connect to AP on slightly longer distance on
some Ralink chips/devices.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fabien ADAM <id2ndr@...cobox.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: use rt2x00_eeprom_read()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
@@ -2067,6 +2067,13 @@ static int rt2800_get_gain_calibration_d
 	int i;
 
 	/*
+	 * First check if temperature compensation is supported.
+	 */
+	rt2x00_eeprom_read(rt2x00dev, EEPROM_NIC_CONF1, &eeprom);
+	if (!rt2x00_get_field16(eeprom, EEPROM_NIC_CONF1_EXTERNAL_TX_ALC))
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
 	 * Read TSSI boundaries for temperature compensation from
 	 * the EEPROM.
 	 *

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