linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.17 098/146] Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"

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Message-Id: <20141028033347.730106769@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:34:00 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.17 098/146] Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"

3.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>

commit 171cdab8c78bb169d9693d587e1d02d2dd5a0274 upstream.

This reverts commit 09efc56345be4146ab9fc87a55c837ed5d6ea1ab

I've received reports that this change is decreasing throughput in some
rare conditions on an AR9280 based device

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c
@@ -1004,9 +1004,11 @@ static bool ar5008_hw_ani_control_new(st
 	case ATH9K_ANI_FIRSTEP_LEVEL:{
 		u32 level = param;
 
-		value = level;
+		value = level * 2;
 		REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_FIND_SIG,
 			      AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_FIRSTEP, value);
+		REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_LOW,
+			      AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_FIRSTEP_LOW, value);
 
 		if (level != aniState->firstepLevel) {
 			ath_dbg(common, ANI,


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