Re: wifi: rtlwifi: Speed up firmware loading for USB

[Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>]

On 13/01/2024 08:35, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Currently it takes almost 6 seconds to upload the firmware for RTL8192CU
>> (and 11 seconds for RTL8192DU). That's because the firmware is uploaded
>> one byte at a time.
>>
>> Also, after plugging the device, the firmware gets uploaded three times
>> before a connection to the AP is established.
>>
>> Maybe this is fine for most users, but when testing changes to the
>> driver it's really annoying to wait so long.
>>
>> Speed up the firmware upload by writing chunks of 64 bytes at a time.
>> This way it takes about 110 ms for RTL8192CU (and about 210 ms for
>> RTL8192DU).
>>
>> PCI devices could upload it in chunks of 4 bytes, but I don't have any
>> to test and commit 89d32c9071aa ("rtlwifi: Download firmware as bytes
>> rather than as dwords") decided otherwise anyway.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
> 
> There's another version so I assume I can drop this one:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/0d262acd-4f94-41c2-8d15-83486aeb976b@gmail.com/
> 

Yes, you can drop this one. Sorry about that. I forgot to write
"[PATCH]" in the subject. I thought you wouldn't even notice this
one because of that.