Commit 811ea256 authored Jan 17, 2011 by Rajkumar Manoharan Committed by John W. Linville Jan 17, 2011

ath9k_hw: do PA offset calibration only on longcal interval



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).

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent dc738cb6

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9002_calib.c

+5 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -679,10 +679,6 @@ static bool ar9002_hw_calibrate(struct ath_hw *ah,

		/* 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.
		@@ -697,8 +693,12 @@ static bool ar9002_hw_calibrate(struct ath_hw *ah,
		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;