History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/util.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 8986f0a9 28-Jun-2023 Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>

wifi: rtw88: simplify vif iterators

Since all iterators called by 'rtw_iterate_vifs()' never uses
'mac' argument, it may be omitted, and 'struct rtw_vifs_entry'
may be simplified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628072327.167196-4-dmantipov@yandex.ru


# 78d5bf92 02-Dec-2022 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

wifi: rtw88: iterate over vif/sta list non-atomically

The driver uses ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic()
and ieee80211_iterate_stations_atomic() in several places and does
register accesses in the iterators. This doesn't cope with upcoming
USB support as registers can only be accessed non-atomically.

Split these into a two stage process: First use the atomic iterator
functions to collect all active interfaces or stations on a list, then
iterate over the list non-atomically and call the iterator on each
entry.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Ping-Ke shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202081224.2779981-7-s.hauer@pengutronix.de


# 5c831644 25-Sep-2020 Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: handle and recover when firmware crash

This handles the situation when firmware crashes.
When firmware crashes, it will send an interrupt, and driver will queue
a work for recovery.
In the work, driver will reset it's internal association state, which
includes removing associated sta's macid, resetting vifs' states
and removing keys. After resetting the driver's state, driver will call
rtw_enter_ips() to force the chipset power off to reset the chip.
Finally, driver calls ieee80211_restart_hw() to inform mac80211 stack
to restart.
Since only 8822c firmware supports this feature, the interrupt will only
be triggered when 8822c chipset is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925061219.23754-3-tehuang@realtek.com


# 44bc17f7 19-Dec-2019 Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>

rtw88: support wowlan feature for 8822c

Wake on WLAN(wowlan) is a feature which allows devices
to be woken up from suspend state through wlan events.

When user enables wowlan feature and then let the device
enter suspend state, wowlan firmware will be loaded by
the driver and periodically monitors wifi packets.
Power consumption of wifi chip will be reduced in this
state.

If wowlan firmware detects that specific wlan event
happens, it will issue wakeup signal to trigger resume
process. Driver will load normal firmware and let wifi
chip return to the original state.

Currently supported wlan events include receiving magic packet,
rekey packet and deauth packet, and disconnecting from AP.

Signed-off-by: Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>


# e3037485 26-Apr-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The firmware for both can be found at linux-firmware.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
For RTL8822BE: rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin
For RTL8822CE: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin

And for now, only PCI buses (RTL8xxxE) are supported. We will add support
for USB and SDIO in the future. The bus interface abstraction can be seen
in this driver such as hci.h. Most of the hardware setting are the same
except for some TRX path or probing setup should be separated.

Supported:

* Basic STA/AP/ADHOC mode, and TDLS (STA is well tested)

Missing feature:

* WOW/PNO
* USB & SDIO bus (such as RTL8xxxU/RTL8xxxS)
* BT coexistence (8822B/8822C are combo ICs)
* Multiple interfaces (for now single STA is better supported)
* Dynamic hardware calibrations (to improve/stabilize performance)

Potential problems:

* static calibration spends too much time, and it is painful for
driver to leave IDLE state. And slows down associate process.
But reload function are under development, will be added soon!
* TRX statictics misleading, as we are not reporting status correctly,
or say, not reporting for "every" packet.

The next patch set should have BT coexistence code since RTL8822B/C are
combo ICs, and the driver for BT can be found after Linux Kernel v4.20.
So it is better to add it first to make WiFi + BT work concurrently.

Although now rtw88 is simple but we are developing more features for it.
Even we want to add support for more chips such as RTL8821C/RTL8814B.

Finally, rtw88 has many authors, listed alphabetically:

Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>