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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2012-06-06 13:55:02 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-06-08 13:47:07 -0400
commitd012d04e4d6312ea157b6cf19e9689af934f5aa7 (patch)
tree30a6d24b32ddde7c821324e0af5d630f1ab64016
parentd6ee27eb13beab94056e0de52d81220058ca2297 (diff)
iwlwifi: disable the buggy chain extension feature in HW
This feature has been reported to be buggy and enabled by default. We therefore need to disable it manually. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
index 3b1069290fa9..dfd54662e3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
#define SCD_TXFACT (SCD_BASE + 0x10)
#define SCD_ACTIVE (SCD_BASE + 0x14)
#define SCD_QUEUECHAIN_SEL (SCD_BASE + 0xe8)
+#define SCD_CHAINEXT_EN (SCD_BASE + 0x244)
#define SCD_AGGR_SEL (SCD_BASE + 0x248)
#define SCD_INTERRUPT_MASK (SCD_BASE + 0x108)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
index ec6fb395b84d..79c6b91417f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,11 @@ static void iwl_tx_start(struct iwl_trans *trans)
iwl_write_prph(trans, SCD_DRAM_BASE_ADDR,
trans_pcie->scd_bc_tbls.dma >> 10);
+ /* The chain extension of the SCD doesn't work well. This feature is
+ * enabled by default by the HW, so we need to disable it manually.
+ */
+ iwl_write_prph(trans, SCD_CHAINEXT_EN, 0);
+
/* Enable DMA channel */
for (chan = 0; chan < FH_TCSR_CHNL_NUM ; chan++)
iwl_write_direct32(trans, FH_TCSR_CHNL_TX_CONFIG_REG(chan),