[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "iwlwifi: dvm: run INIT firmware again upon .start()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    iwlwifi: dvm: run INIT firmware again upon .start()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 7b1d13cf84cddf68e160404a0ac780a3d442b59e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:08:07 +0200
Subject: iwlwifi: dvm: run INIT firmware again upon .start()

commit 9c8928f5176766bec79f272bd47b7124e11cccbd upstream.

The assumption before this patch was that we don't need to
run again the INIT firmware after the system booted. The
INIT firmware runs calibrations which impact the physical
layer's behavior.
Users reported that it may be helpful to run these
calibrations again every time the interface is brought up.
The penatly is minimal, since the calibrations run fast.
This fixes:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94341

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h   | 1 -
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/ucode.c | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
index 7434d9e..0db52ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
@@ -708,7 +708,6 @@ struct iwl_priv {
 	unsigned long reload_jiffies;
 	int reload_count;
 	bool ucode_loaded;
-	bool init_ucode_run;		/* Don't run init uCode again */

 	u8 plcp_delta_threshold;

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/ucode.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/ucode.c
index 6363794..0223d06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/ucode.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/ucode.c
@@ -424,9 +424,6 @@ int iwl_run_init_ucode(struct iwl_priv *priv)
 	if (!priv->fw->img[IWL_UCODE_INIT].sec[0].len)
 		return 0;

-	if (priv->init_ucode_run)
-		return 0;
-
 	iwl_init_notification_wait(&priv->notif_wait, &calib_wait,
 				   calib_complete, ARRAY_SIZE(calib_complete),
 				   iwlagn_wait_calib, priv);
@@ -446,8 +443,6 @@ int iwl_run_init_ucode(struct iwl_priv *priv)
 	 */
 	ret = iwl_wait_notification(&priv->notif_wait, &calib_wait,
 					UCODE_CALIB_TIMEOUT);
-	if (!ret)
-		priv->init_ucode_run = true;

 	goto out;

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1.9.1