wl1271: Update TX packet life time handling with higher resolution time

This patch uses a higher precision timer to synchronize with the firmware
clock. Improved precision is needed as on some platforms a jiffy may be up to
tens of milliseconds, and the required precision is closer to TU's.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
index 9f741686405..4c4d22acaee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static void wl1271_power_on(struct wl1271 *wl)
 static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl,
                              struct wl1271_fw_status *status)
 {
+        struct timespec ts;
         u32 total = 0;
         int i;
 
@@ -402,8 +403,9 @@ static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl,
                 ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work);
 
         /* update the host-chipset time offset */
-        wl->time_offset = jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies) -
-                le32_to_cpu(status->fw_localtime);
+        getnstimeofday(&ts);
+        wl->time_offset = (timespec_to_ns(&ts) >> 10) -
+                (s64)le32_to_cpu(status->fw_localtime);
 }
 
 #define WL1271_IRQ_MAX_LOOPS 10