The rtl8187 cards don't seem to receive multicast frames, which,
among other things, makes them fail to receive RAs in IPv6 networks.
The cause seems to be that the RTL818X_RX_CONF_MULTICAST flag doesn't
have the desired effect.
Fix the issue by setting RTL818X_RX_CONF_MONITOR instead, which puts the
card into monitor mode and resolves the problem so that multicast frames
are sucessfully passed to the kernel.
The existence of the problem and the effectiveness of the solution has
originally been confirmed on an 8187B based card with the USB id of
0bda:8197. Subsequent testing by Larry Finger on an 8187L based card,
which follows the second (8187, i.e. "non-b") code path in the driver,
has confirmed that the fix does not cause any noticeable regresssions
there either.
Signed-off-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
rtl818x_ioread8_idx: 151 bytes, 29 calls
rtl818x_ioread16_idx: 151 bytes, 11 calls
rtl818x_ioread32_idx: 151 bytes, 5 calls
rtl818x_iowrite8_idx: 157 bytes, 117 calls
rtl818x_iowrite16_idx: 158 bytes, 74 calls
rtl818x_iowrite32_idx: 157 bytes, 22 calls
Each of these functions has a pair of mutex lock/unlock ops,
both of these ops perform atomic updates of memory (on x86, it boils down to
"lock cmpxchg %reg,mem" insn), which are 4-8 times more expensive than call+return.
text data bss dec hex filename
95894242 20860288 35991552 152746082 91ab862 vmlinux_before
95872674 20860320 35991552 152724546 91a6442 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
CC: Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Now that a new mac80211-based driver for Realtek devices has been submitted,
it is time to reorganize the directories. Rather than having directories
rtlwifi and rtl818x be in drivers/net/wireless/, they will now be in
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/. This change simplifies the directory
structure, but does not result in any configuration changes that are
visable to the user.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
