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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-21 01:14:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-21 01:14:25 -0700
commit87eb367003887cdc81a5d183efea227b5b488961 (patch)
tree40f617e25a9364d573e3cd2189c9e7fa56c8a0fe /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c
parentccb7c7732e2ceb4e81a7806faf1670be9681ccd2 (diff)
parent05d17608a69b3ae653ea5c9857283bef3439c733 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c net/core/dev.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c')
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c
index 0471c3f8713..f1fd00b1a65 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c
@@ -808,6 +808,18 @@ void iwl_chain_noise_calibration(struct iwl_priv *priv,
}
}
+ /*
+ * The above algorithm sometimes fails when the ucode
+ * reports 0 for all chains. It's not clear why that
+ * happens to start with, but it is then causing trouble
+ * because this can make us enable more chains than the
+ * hardware really has.
+ *
+ * To be safe, simply mask out any chains that we know
+ * are not on the device.
+ */
+ active_chains &= priv->hw_params.valid_rx_ant;
+
num_tx_chains = 0;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_RX_CHAINS; i++) {
/* loops on all the bits of