[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "b43: N-PHY: increase initial value of "mind" in RSSI" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    b43: N-PHY: increase initial value of "mind" in RSSI

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:52:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] b43: N-PHY: increase initial value of "mind" in RSSI
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commit e67dd874e60529dbd2e8232babb1e23479ba2ffa upstream.

We're using "mind" variable to find the VCM that got the best polling
results. For each VCM we calculte "currd" which is compared to the
"mind". For PHY rev3+ "currd" gets values around 14k-40k. Looking for a
value smaller than 40 makes no sense, so increase the initial value.

This fixes a regression introduced in 3.4 by commit:
e0c9a0219a8f542e3946fe972a68aacf8c3f906c
(my BCM4322 performance dropped from 18,4Mb/s to 9,26Mb/s)

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
[ luis: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
index 1081188..5ae0b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ static void b43_nphy_rev3_rssi_cal(struct b43_wldev *dev)
 		}
 		for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
 			s32 curr;
-			s32 mind = 40;
+			s32 mind = 0x100000;
 			s32 minpoll = 249;
 			u8 minvcm = 0;
 			if (2 * core != i)
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ static void b43_nphy_rev2_rssi_cal(struct b43_wldev *dev, u8 type)
 	}

 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
-		s32 mind = 40;
+		s32 mind = 0x100000;
 		u8 minvcm = 0;
 		s32 minpoll = 249;
 		s32 curr;
--
1.8.1.2