From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Subject: Re: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:06:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925080624.04C9960618@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170920211505.26171-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
> of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
> this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
> This regression was located using bisection.
>
> Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
> Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11+
> Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Should I queue this for 4.14?
(The first commit was v4.11-rc1.)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 21:15 [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem Larry Finger
2017-09-25 8:06 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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2017-09-25 15:39 ` Larry Finger
2017-10-02 13:04 ` Kalle Valo
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