From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933875Ab2DKXQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:16:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:35695 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933825Ab2DKXQV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:16:21 -0400 Message-Id: <20120411231023.489450259@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-19.1 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:10:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Paul Stewart , Gary Morain , Madhan Jaganathan , Rajkumar Manoharan , "John W. Linville" Subject: [ 31/78] ath9k: fix max noise floor threshold In-Reply-To: <20120411231102.GA6404@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rajkumar Manoharan commit 2ee0a07028d2cde6e131b73f029dae2b93c50f3a upstream. Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the connection stability in congested networks. Cc: Paul Stewart Tested-by: Gary Morain Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ /* Common calibration code */ -#define ATH9K_NF_TOO_HIGH -60 static int16_t ath9k_hw_get_nf_hist_mid(int16_t *nfCalBuffer) { @@ -346,10 +345,10 @@ static void ath9k_hw_nf_sanitize(struct "NF calibrated [%s] [chain %d] is %d\n", (i >= 3 ? "ext" : "ctl"), i % 3, nf[i]); - if (nf[i] > ATH9K_NF_TOO_HIGH) { + if (nf[i] > limit->max) { ath_dbg(common, CALIBRATE, "NF[%d] (%d) > MAX (%d), correcting to MAX\n", - i, nf[i], ATH9K_NF_TOO_HIGH); + i, nf[i], limit->max); nf[i] = limit->max; } else if (nf[i] < limit->min) { ath_dbg(common, CALIBRATE,