From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
"Hante Meuleman" <meuleman@broadcom.com>,
"Pieter-Paul Giesberts" <pieterpg@broadcom.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org (open list:BROADCOM BRCM80211
IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER),
brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com (open list:BROADCOM BRCM80211
IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER),
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: Re: [V2] brcmfmac: fix setting AP channel with new firmwares
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:07:33 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160616150733.8C8546141F@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464376045-8220-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com>
Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> Firmware for new chipsets is based on a new major version of code
> internally maintained at Broadcom. E.g. brcmfmac4366b-pcie.bin (used for
> BCM4366B1) is based on 10.10.69.3309 while brcmfmac43602-pcie.ap.bin was
> based on 7.35.177.56.
>
> Currently setting AP 5 GHz channel doesn't work reliably with BCM4366B1.
> When setting e.g. 36 control channel with VHT80 (center channel 42)
> firmware may randomly pick one of:
> 1) 52 control channel with 58 as center one
> 2) 100 control channel with 106 as center one
> 3) 116 control channel with 122 as center one
> 4) 149 control channel with 155 as center one
>
> It seems new firmwares require setting AP mode (BRCMF_C_SET_AP) before
> specifying a channel. Changing an order of firmware calls fixes the
> problem. This requirement resulted in two separated "chanspec" calls,
> one in AP code path and one in P2P path.
>
> This fix was verified with BCM4366B1 and tested for regressions on
> BCM43602.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:
8707e08dbc1f brcmfmac: fix setting AP channel with new firmwares
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9138883/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-16 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 9:09 [PATCH] brcmfmac: fix setting AP channel with new firmwares Rafał Miłecki
2016-05-25 21:08 ` Arend van Spriel
2016-05-25 21:49 ` Rafał Miłecki
2016-05-27 19:07 ` [PATCH V2] " Rafał Miłecki
2016-06-16 15:07 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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