Re: brcmfmac: set p2p_disc error on BCM4350

[William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>]

Hello Arend,

Thanks for your quick answer.

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:31:52AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This has been reported before, but not been able to look into it. Diving
> into firmware it seems that error can only occur if the mac address for the
> p2pdev interface is already used. So if possible can you rebuild the driver
> with the patch below applied and provide dmesg output and output of
> 'ifconfig -a'.
> 
> Regards,
> Arend
> ---8<----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c
> b/drivers/n
> index 2ee5413..f96ad37 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c
> @@ -2065,6 +2065,7 @@ static struct wireless_dev
> *brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev(struc
>         int err;
>         u32 bsscfgidx;
> 
> +       brcmf_err("enter: mac=%pM\n", addr);
>         if (p2p->bss_idx[P2PAPI_BSSCFG_DEVICE].vif)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> 
>

Here is my brcmfmac dmesg output with patch applied
(please tell me if you need complete dmesg)

brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_map_chip_to_name: using brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie.bin for chip 0x004350(17232) rev 0x000008
brcmfmac 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie.txt failed with error -2
brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Oct 22 2015 06:16:26 version 7.35.180.119 (r594535) FWID 01-e791c176
brcmfmac 0000:3a:00.0 wlp58s0: renamed from wlan0
brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: enter: mac=00:00:00:00:00:00
brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: set p2p_disc error
brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface: add iface p2p-dev-wlp58s0 type 10 failed: err=-16

ifconfig shows:

wlp58s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.18.77  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.18.255
        inet6 fe80::3517:e1be:5bc7:899  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 30:52:cb:83:71:33  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 26557  bytes 34149730 (32.5 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 14965  bytes 2298777 (2.1 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Best,
-- 
William