[PATCH] handle broken V4 fw region code shift

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 16:29:41 EDT 2009


Dne Čt 16. července 2009 22:11:26 Luis R. Rodriguez napsal(a):
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Marek Vasut<marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dne Čt 16. července 2009 20:21:30 Dan Williams napsal(a):
> >> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 19:40 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > please consider applying/commenting on the following trivial fix. The
> >> > description is in the patch. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Please CC to linux-wireless at vger.kernel and I'll ack there so Linville
> >> will pick it up.  Any patch that you consider appropriate for actual
> >> inclusion at the time you send it is better on linux-wireless.
> >> libertas-dev should really be only for hardware/firmware discussions and
> >> not-yet-ready patches.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Dan
> >
> > Done, thanks! :-)
> > (sorry for sending it twice, I missed the address was incomplete in your
> > mail)
>
> Please resend inline
>
>  Luis

Here you go

From d69e6db9d424e40dade6bbf107dbab2ff4d692d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001                            
From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>                                                         
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:19:53 +0200                                                             
Subject: [PATCH] Fix problem with broken V4 firmware on CF8381                                    

Firmware V4 on CF8381 reports region code shifted by 1 byte to left.
The following patch checks for this and handles it properly.        

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>
---                                               
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c  |    8 +++++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h |    2 ++      
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)    

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
index 01db705..445288d 100644                                                         
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c                                             
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c                                             
@@ -135,8 +135,14 @@ int lbs_update_hw_spec(struct lbs_private *priv)                 
        /* Clamp region code to 8-bit since FW spec indicates that it should          
         * only ever be 8-bit, even though the field size is 16-bit.  Some 
firmware
         * returns non-zero high 8 bits here.
+        *
+        * Firmware version 4.0.102 used in CF8381 has region code shifted. We
+        * need to check for this problem and handle it properly.
         */
-       priv->regioncode = le16_to_cpu(cmd.regioncode) & 0xFF;
+       if (MRVL_FW_MAJOR_REV(priv->fwrelease) == MRVL_FW_V4)
+               priv->regioncode = (le16_to_cpu(cmd.regioncode) >> 8) & 0xFF;
+       else
+               priv->regioncode = le16_to_cpu(cmd.regioncode) & 0xFF;

        for (i = 0; i < MRVDRV_MAX_REGION_CODE; i++) {
                /* use the region code to search for the index */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h 
b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h
index 48da157..72f3479 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h
@@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ static inline void lbs_deb_hex(unsigned int grp, const 
char *prompt, u8 *buf, in
 /** Mesh enable bit in FW capability */
 #define MESH_CAPINFO_ENABLE_MASK                       (1<<16)

+/** FW definition from Marvell v4 */
+#define MRVL_FW_V4                                     (0x04)
 /** FW definition from Marvell v5 */
 #define MRVL_FW_V5                                     (0x05)
 /** FW definition from Marvell v10 */
--
1.6.3.3



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