[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ath9k: Fix noisefloor calibration" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    ath9k: Fix noisefloor calibration

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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>From 2747ba98aa8b52311afb4679f43d97fda861b97c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha at qca.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:49:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: Fix noisefloor calibration

commit 696df78509d1f81b651dd98ecdc1aecab616db6b upstream.

The commits,

"ath9k: Fix regression in channelwidth switch at the same channel"
"ath9k: Fix invalid noisefloor reading due to channel update"

attempted to fix noisefloor calibration when a channel switch
happens due to HT20/HT40 bandwidth change. This is causing invalid
readings resulting in messages like:

"ath: phy16: NF[0] (-45) > MAX (-95), correcting to MAX".

This results in an incorrect noise being used initially for reporting
the signal level of received packets, until NF calibration is done
and the history buffer is updated via the ANI timer, which happens
much later.

When a bandwidth change happens, it is appropriate to reset
the internal history data for the channel. Do this correctly in the
reset() routine by checking the "chanmode" variable.

Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha at qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c   | 3 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 7 -------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
index c24402b..a1ef2c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
@@ -1774,7 +1774,8 @@ int ath9k_hw_reset(struct ath_hw *ah, struct ath9k_channel *chan,

 	ah->caldata = caldata;
 	if (caldata && (chan->channel != caldata->channel ||
-			chan->channelFlags != caldata->channelFlags)) {
+			chan->channelFlags != caldata->channelFlags ||
+			chan->chanmode != caldata->chanmode)) {
 		/* Operating channel changed, reset channel calibration data */
 		memset(caldata, 0, sizeof(*caldata));
 		ath9k_init_nfcal_hist_buffer(ah, chan);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index e8da084..278ce3d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1624,13 +1624,6 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
 		ath_update_survey_stats(sc);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&common->cc_lock, flags);

-		/*
-		 * Preserve the current channel values, before updating
-		 * the same channel
-		 */
-		if (ah->curchan && (old_pos == pos))
-			ath9k_hw_getnf(ah, ah->curchan);
-
 		ath9k_cmn_update_ichannel(&sc->sc_ah->channels[pos],
 					  curchan, conf->channel_type);

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1.8.1.2