I talked with Nick and I finally agree with him that this code is completely 
unuseful.
I misunderstood the legacy code. Sorry.

I will try to work in a simpler task and I will appreciate if you have any 
suggestions.

Best regards,

-- 
Tulio Magno


On Wednesday 04 February 2009 02:29:40 Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <[email protected]>:
> > Separate both calibrations and call noise floor calibrations only when 
> > necessary.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c |    4 ++++
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/phy.c  |    8 --------
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/reg.h  |    1 +
> >  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c 
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> > index 697450d..251d022 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> > @@ -2518,6 +2518,10 @@ ath5k_calibrate(unsigned long data)
> >                        ieee80211_frequency_to_channel(
> >                                sc->curchan->center_freq));
> >
> > +       if(ah->ah_regdomain & AR5K_PHY_NFC) {
> > +               ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration(ah, 
> > sc->curchan->center_freq);
> > +       }
> > +
> >        mod_timer(&sc->calib_tim, round_jiffies(jiffies +
> >                        msecs_to_jiffies(ath5k_calinterval * 1000)));
> >  }
> 
> How is regdomain related to nf calibration ?
> Also where does ah_regdomain gets updated ?
> 
> This way nf calibration never happens...
> 
> > @@ -1325,12 +1323,6 @@ static int ath5k_hw_rf511x_calibrate(struct ath5k_hw 
> > *ah,
> >
> >  done:
> >
> > -       /* TODO: Separate noise floor calibration from I/Q calibration
> > -        * since noise floor calibration interrupts rx path while I/Q
> > -        * calibration doesn't. We don't need to run noise floor calibration
> > -        * as often as I/Q calibration.*/
> > -       ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration(ah, channel->center_freq);
> > -
> >        /* Initiate a gain_F calibration */
> >        ath5k_hw_request_rfgain_probe(ah);
> >
> 
> I've put that TODO there because there is a plan about this that
> includes stopping tx queues etc, it's not that simple...
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/reg.h 
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/reg.h
> > index d023eb5..e8a10b8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/reg.h
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/reg.h
> > @@ -2032,6 +2032,7 @@
> >  #define        AR5K_PHY_NF_THRESH62_S          12
> >  #define        AR5K_PHY_NF_MINCCA_PWR          0x0ff80000      /* ??? */
> >  #define        AR5K_PHY_NF_MINCCA_PWR_S        19
> > +#define AR5K_PHY_NFC                   4 /* Bit to identify when it is 
> > necessary floor calibration */
> >
> >  /*
> >  * PHY ADC saturation register [5110]
> 
> There is no such bit on the register and if there was such bit you'll
> probably want to AND ah_regdomain against 0x10
> 
> 


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