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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2009-01-27 12:31:23 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-02-02 09:53:25 -0800
commitf113ce73199be055550c6ed242f499be208d0b30 (patch)
treedfda04ec1dc98c043e755605a38db5446e2fa24b
parent1fabb05a03cec301e40fbe5c8036c839b983c350 (diff)
rtl8187: Fix error in setting OFDM power settings for RTL8187L
commit eb83bbf57429ab80f49b413e3e44d3b19c3fdc5a upstream. After reports of poor performance, a review of the latest vendor driver (rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007) for RTL8187L devices was undertaken. A difference was found in the code used to index the OFDM power tables. When the Linux driver was changed, my unit works at a much greater range than before. I think this fixes Bugzilla #12380 and has been tested by at least two other users. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Martín Ernesto Barreyro <barreyromartin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_rtl8225.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_rtl8225.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_rtl8225.c
index 1bae89903410..487593f6efe2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_rtl8225.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_rtl8225.c
@@ -287,7 +287,10 @@ static void rtl8225_rf_set_tx_power(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, int channel)
ofdm_power = priv->channels[channel - 1].hw_value >> 4;
cck_power = min(cck_power, (u8)11);
- ofdm_power = min(ofdm_power, (u8)35);
+ if (ofdm_power > (u8)15)
+ ofdm_power = 25;
+ else
+ ofdm_power += 10;
rtl818x_iowrite8(priv, &priv->map->TX_GAIN_CCK,
rtl8225_tx_gain_cck_ofdm[cck_power / 6] >> 1);
@@ -540,7 +543,10 @@ static void rtl8225z2_rf_set_tx_power(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, int channel)
cck_power += priv->txpwr_base & 0xF;
cck_power = min(cck_power, (u8)35);
- ofdm_power = min(ofdm_power, (u8)15);
+ if (ofdm_power > (u8)15)
+ ofdm_power = 25;
+ else
+ ofdm_power += 10;
ofdm_power += priv->txpwr_base >> 4;
ofdm_power = min(ofdm_power, (u8)35);