Johan Hedberg [Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:22:28 +0000 (22:22 +0200)]
Bluetooth: Create a unified authentication request function
This patch adds a single function that's responsible for requesting
authentication for outgoing connections. This is preparation for the
next patch which will add automated name requests and thereby move the
authentication requests to a different location.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
Johan Hedberg [Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:11:51 +0000 (17:11 +0200)]
Bluetooth: Simplify remote features callback function logic
The current remote and remote extended features event callbacks logic
can be made simpler by using a label and goto statements instead of the
current multiple levels of nested if statements.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
Stefan Seyfried [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:49:08 +0000 (21:49 +0100)]
Bluetooth: Fix log spamming in btusb due to autosuspend
If a device is autosuspended an inability to resubmit URBs is
to be expected. Check the error code and only log real errors.
(Now that autosuspend is default enabled for btusb, those log
messages were happening all the time e.g. with a BT mouse)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@b1-systems.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
Commit dbbf1755b09eef8ff6dd21c8dafe1606f051ce12 "iwlwifi: use
antenna information in EEPROM" caused 4965 device breakage with
"Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000000." message.
This patch reverts 4965 part of that commit.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:19:34 +0000 (12:19 +0100)]
mac80211: Minor optimization in ieee80211_rx_h_data
Remove a superfluous ieee80211_is_data check as that was checked a few
lines before already and we wont't get here for non-data frames at all.
Second, the frame was already converted to 802.3 header format and
reading the fc and addr1 fields was only possible because the 802.3
header is short enough and didn't overwrite the relevant parts of the
802.11 header. Make the code more obvious by checking the ethernet
header's h_dest field.
Furthermore reorder the conditions to reduce the number of checks
when dynamic powersave is not needed (AP mode for example).
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All rt2x00 drivers except rt2800pci call ieee80211_tx_status() from
a workqueue, which causes "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08" messages.
To fix it, add ieee80211_tx_status_ni() similar to ieee80211_rx_ni()
which can be called from process context, and call it from
rt2x00lib_txdone(). For the rt2800pci special case a driver
flag is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:53:28 +0000 (21:53 +0200)]
ath5k: Set turbo bit on rf bank 2
* A diff between rfbuffer settings of turbo and non-turbo
modes indicates there is a bit on bank 2 related to turbo operation
(it's set on turbo modes). This bit is present on all radios except
RF5413 that seems to have a completely different bank 2. Also
since 2317 has the same rf-registers locations with 2425 and
since the bit exists on 2317 I assume it also exists on 2425/2417).
So in case we use turbo mode (40MHz) enable it on bank modification.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:51:38 +0000 (21:51 +0200)]
ath5k: Clean up turbo mode initvals/rfregs
* Clean up what's left of turbo mode, since we handle all
register modifications (rfbuffer comes next) on code there
is no need to have duplicated arrays.
* Rename change_channel to skip_pcu on initvals.c as we did
on reset.c
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <micklfemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:45:21 +0000 (21:45 +0200)]
ath5k: Skip tx power setting on AR5210 for now
* Don't return -EINVAL when trying to set tx power
on RF5110 because AR5210 reset will fail. We need to
add support for RF5110 and AR5210 eeprom in the future
but for now just skip it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:42:22 +0000 (21:42 +0200)]
ath5k: No need to save/restore staid flags on reset
* Since we set antenna flags on phy init and ack bitrate
mode on pcu init, there is no need to save/restore sta_id
flags on ath5k_hw_reset. Also we don't need to re-set our
mac address because it's not affected by resets.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:39:28 +0000 (21:39 +0200)]
ath5k: Support synth-only channel change for AR2413/AR5413
* Add synth-only channel change for AR2413/5413. When we call
ath5k_reset with a channel ath5k_hw_reset will first try to
set channel on PHY while PHY is running instead of doing a normal
full reset. To do this phy_init has to change to implement this
functionality.
* Clean up change_channel flag, what it really did was skip PCU
registers when setting initvals. This is done because on reset
PCU registers are not affected (except the registers we set
in pcu init and -due to hw problems- TSF). Use a new skip_pcu
flag that's not misleading instead. In the future we might use
that to also skip PCU reset and save us the TSF etc problems
(needs testing because standard practice is to reset everything).
* Use fast channel change only when setting channel, and set skip_pcu
to false only on init. When we reset the card due to DMA or PHY
problems skip pcu but never do a fast channel change.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:19:45 +0000 (21:19 +0200)]
ath5k: Set all IFS intervals, not just slot time
* Replace set_slot_time with set_ifs_intervals that also sets
the various inter-frame space intervals based on current bwmode.
* Clean up AR5210 mess from reset_tx_queue, AR5210 only has one
data queue and we set IFS intervals for that queue on set_ifs_intervals
so there is nothing left to do for 5210 on reset_tx_queue.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:12:23 +0000 (21:12 +0200)]
ath5k: Extend rate_duration
* Extend ieee80211_generic_frame_duration to support the various
bwmodes.
* Better document what's going on with ack bitrates and update
write_rate_duration to support the standard ack bitrates (when
we don't set the high bit).
* Get rid of set_ack_bitrate_high and introduce a flag on ath5k_hw
for this (we only called the function on init anyway so there is no
difference).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:04:43 +0000 (21:04 +0200)]
ath5k: Increase PHY settling parameters for turo mode
* On turbo mode increase PHY settling times, note that
we only increase switch settling time on AR5212 as indicated
by initvals.
* A few cleanups: Move frame control settings for AR5210 from
reset_tx_queue to tweak_initvals and remove phy_scal settings
from tweak_initvals (we tweak them alread on set_sleep_clock).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:02:20 +0000 (21:02 +0200)]
ath5k: Small cleanup on tweak_initvals
* Now that we properly set rx/tx latencies for AR5311 remove
that old buggy part of code left inside ath5k_hw_tweak_initval_settings
that was never executed (you can't have an RF5112 radio on a mac older
than AR5212). Also use a magic value for 5311 PHY_SCAL value.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:58:34 +0000 (20:58 +0200)]
ath5k: Add new field on ath5k_hw to track bandwidth modes
* Prepare for half/quarter/turbo support, introduce a new
ah_bwmode parameter and get rid of ah_turbo. Bwmode stands
for "bandwidth mode" and can have 4 values, default (20MHz),
turbo (40MHz), half rate (10MHz), and quarter rate (5MHz).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:55:17 +0000 (20:55 +0200)]
ath5k: Use new function to stop beacon queue
* Since we only use ath5k_hw_stop_tx_dma to stop the beacon
queue, introduce a new function ath5k_hw_stop_beacon_queue so
that we can use that instead and have better control. In the future
we can add more beacon queue specific stuff there (maybe tweak
beacon timers or something), for now just call ath5k_hw_stop_tx_dma.
* Also since we don't call ath5k_hw_stop_rx/tx_dma from outside
dma.c, make them static.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:50:16 +0000 (20:50 +0200)]
ath5k: Use DCU early termination correctly
* DCU early termination should be used to quickly flush QCU
according to docs so don't enable it for all queues, enable
it only when stopping each queue and disable it when we are
done.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:45:38 +0000 (20:45 +0200)]
ath5k: Use new dma_stop function on base.c
* Since we stop rx/tx dma and pcu durring reset there is no need to
call ath5k_hw_stop_rx/tx_dma before, also there is no need to call
them durring stop_locked since we can use ath5k_hw_dma_stop for
both.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:43:18 +0000 (20:43 +0200)]
ath5k: Stop PCU on reset
* Stop PCU receive logic (DRU) durring reset
We need to be sure pcu is not active when trying to stop rx dma
right now this is done on ath5k_reset (base.c) but later we are
going to clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:36:45 +0000 (20:36 +0200)]
ath5k: Reset cleanup and generic cleanup
* No functional changes
* Clean up reset:
Introduce init functions for each unit and call them instead
of having everything inside ath5k_hw_reset (it's just c/p for
now so nothing changes except calling order -I tested it with
various cards and it's ok-)
* Further cleanups:
ofdm_timings belongs to phy.c
rate_duration belongs to pcu.c
clock functions are general and belong to reset.c (more to follow)
* Reorder functions for better organization:
We start with helpers and other functions follow in categories,
init functions are last
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This feature is to mitigate the problem of certain 3
stream chips that exceed the PCIe power requirements.An EEPROM flag
controls which chips have APM enabled which is basically read from
miscellaneous configuration element of the EEPROM header.
This workaround will reduce power consumption by using 2 Tx chains for
Single and Double stream rates (5 GHz only).All self generated frames
(regardless of rate) are sent on 2 chains when this feature is
enabled(Chip Limitation).
Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:09:16 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
mac80211: fix RX aggregation locking
The RX aggregation locking documentation was
wrong, which led Christian to also code the
timer timeout handling for it somewhat wrongly.
Fix the documentation, the two places that
need to hold the reorder lock across accesses
to the structure, and the debugfs code that
should just use RCU.
Also, remove acquiring the sta->lock across
reorder timeouts since it isn't necessary, and
change a few places to GFP_KERNEL because the
code path here doesn't need atomic allocations
as I noticed when reviewing all this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:37:48 +0000 (19:37 +0100)]
ath9k: fix software retry counter tracking
The recent tx path cleanups moved the software retry count tracking
from the ath_buf to the skb cb, however the actual counter update
referred to the wrong location, confusing block-ack window tracking.
Fix this by using the retries counter in the struct ath_frame_info.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is not ideal to enable btcoex based on subsys id as it is
not unique, they are so random. It is also a pain keeping
all of them in a table to enable btcoex for a particular
hw. Going back to the old idea.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:02:30 +0000 (10:02 +0100)]
mac80211: implement off-channel mgmt TX
This implements the new off-channel TX API
in mac80211 with a new work item type. The
operation doesn't add a new work item when
we're on the right channel and there's no
wait time so that for example p2p probe
responses will be transmitted without delay.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:02:29 +0000 (10:02 +0100)]
nl80211/cfg80211: extend mgmt-tx API for off-channel
With p2p, it is sometimes necessary to transmit
a frame (typically an action frame) on another
channel than the current channel. Enable this
through the CMD_FRAME API, and allow it to wait
for a response. A new command allows that wait
to be aborted.
However, allow userspace to specify whether or
not it wants to allow off-channel TX, it may
actually want to use the same channel only.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:33:27 +0000 (11:33 -0800)]
iwlwifi: use mac80211 AC defines
Instead of hardcoding the numbers that must
match mac80211, use the constants. Not that
this means we could change the constants,
but at least this way it's clearer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:02 +0000 (11:55 -0800)]
iwlagn: advertise reliable TX status
Our hardware has reliable TX status, but we're
not currently advertising that to mac80211.
Since the packet loss monitoring will depend
on it, advertise it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:51:38 +0000 (11:51 -0800)]
iwlagn: fix station powersave accounting for aggregation
Since aggregation queues are station-specific, the
device will not reject packets in them but rather
will stop the appropriate aggregation queues when
a station goes to sleep. I forgot to account for
this in the driver, so if a station went to sleep
that had aggregation enabled, traffic would stop
indefinitely.
Fix this by only accounting frames queued on the
normal AC queues for associated station.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:51:04 +0000 (11:51 -0800)]
iwlagn: remove powersave warning
Through races, a packet may be enqueued for
transmission to a station while that station
is going to sleep, in which case the warning
here triggers. Instead of warning, check the
condition -- if this packet is not a PS-poll
response then we still enqueue it but it will
be rejected by the device since the station
is marked as asleep.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Categorize AR7010 & AR9287 devices based on driver_info
of usb_device_id, instead of PIDs. This avoids per-device cases
and minimize code changes for new device addition.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw: Fix eeprom offset for AR9287 devices (PCI/USB)
AR9287 devices (PCI/USB) use different eeprom start location
to read nvram. New devices might endup with same devid. So use
driver_info to set offset, instead of devid. driver_info is
valid for HTC devices alone which is filled in usb_device_id.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver_info stores the device category information which
is used to load appropriate device firmware, select firmware offset
and eeprom starting location. The driver_info is accessed across
ath9k_htc and ath9k_hw. Hence placed under common structure.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:10:06 +0000 (08:10 +0100)]
mac80211: implement packet loss notification
For drivers that have accurate TX status reporting
we can report the number of consecutive lost packets
to userspace using the new cfg80211 CQM event. The
threshold is fixed right now, this may need to be
improved in the future.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:10:05 +0000 (08:10 +0100)]
cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet loss
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events
to notify about packet loss for specific stations
(which could be the AP for the managed mode case).
Since the threshold might be determined by the
driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be
passed out of the driver to userspace in the event.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should help with latency issues which can happen when
using aggregation.
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Matt Smith <matt.smith@atheros.com> Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should help with latency issues which can happen when
using aggregation.
Cc: Matt Smith <matt.smith@atheros.com> Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:10:32 +0000 (03:10 +0100)]
mac80211: reduce the number of retries for nullfunc probing
Since nullfunc frames are transmitted as unicast frames, they're more
reliable than the broadcast probe requests, so we need fewer retries
to figure out whether the AP is really gone.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:10:31 +0000 (03:10 +0100)]
mac80211: use nullfunc instead of probe request for connection monitoring
nullfunc frames are better for connection monitoring, because probe requests
are answered even if the AP has already dropped the connection, whereas
nullfunc frames from an unassociated station will trigger a disassoc/deauth
frame from the AP (WLAN_REASON_CLASS3_FRAME_FROM_NONASSOC_STA), which allows
the station to reconnect immediately instead of waiting until it attempts to
transmit the next unicast frame.
This only works on hardware with reliable tx ACK reporting, any other hardware
needs to fall back to the probe request method.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- store the multicast rate as an index instead of the rate value
(reduces cpu overhead in a hotpath)
- validate the rate values (must match a bitrate in at least one sband)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:28:03 +0000 (20:28 +0100)]
mac80211: probe the AP when resuming
Check the connection by probing the AP (either using nullfunc or a
probe request). If nullfunc probing is supported and the assoc is no
longer valid, the AP will send a disassoc/deauth immediately.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:55:38 +0000 (22:55 +0100)]
mac80211: calculate beacon loss time accurately
Instead of using a fixed 2 second timeout, calculate beacon loss interval
from the advertised beacon interval and a frame count. With this beacon
loss happens after N (default 7) consecutive frames are missed which
for a typical setup (100TU beacon interval) is ~700ms (or ~1/3 previous).
Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:27:57 +0000 (13:27 +0100)]
b43: N-PHY: fix values for PHY regs in channel tables of 2055 radio
Additional comment by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
This change deserves a bit more explanation. You might include something like
"These tables came from reverse engineering the 5.10.56.46 version of the
Broadcom driver. Trace comparisons between b43 and the current Broadcom driver
(5.10.120.0) show byte reversals for the PHY register writes."
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix unbalanced call to sdio_release_host() on the error path.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:39:39 +0000 (15:39 +0100)]
ath9k_hw: fix A-MPDU key search issues on AR9003
Under load, a large number of frames can produce decryption errors, even when
no key cache update is being done. Performing a key search for every single
frame in an A-MPDU improves reliability.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Joe Perches [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:39:01 +0000 (18:39 -0800)]
rt2x00: Use static const
Using static const generally increases object text and decreases data size.
It also generally decreases overall object size.
text data bss dec hex filename
40197 56 8336 48589 bdcd drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.o.new
40205 56 8336 48597 bdd5 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.o.old
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>