[Acked] [Trusty][PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8723be: disable MSI interrupts mode
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Fri May 16 12:51:45 UTC 2014
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:52:21PM +0800, Adam Lee wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320070
>
> 94010fa0dd07e8b904e7c6b6589f15573008ab15 ("rtlwifi: add MSI interrupts
> mode support") introduced MSI interrupts mode support, which seemed
> safe enough with RTL8188EE and RTL8723BE as RealTek's testing results,
> but some users reported their RTL8188EE modules could not connect to
> any wireless network after the MSI mode was enabled by Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> So, let's fallback to pin-based mode until rtlwifi's MSI support get
> good compatibility.
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310512
> Signed-off-by: Adam Lee <adam.lee at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> (cherry picked from commit 329d6e299f92a591acb3a80f6d597a5f9dce7e6d)
Cannot find this commit in linus' tree? Where is it from?
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c
> index 7834ae5..8416362 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ int rtl8723be_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
> struct rtl_mac *mac = rtl_mac(rtl_priv(hw));
>
> rtl8723be_bt_reg_init(hw);
> - rtlpci->msi_support = true;
> + rtlpci->msi_support = false;
> rtlpriv->btcoexist.btc_ops = rtl_btc_get_ops_pointer();
>
> rtlpriv->dm.dm_initialgain_enable = 1;
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Looks ok modulo resolving its provenance.
-apw
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