From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix non-working BSS STA mode Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20181220064209.E5AD9606FC@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <20181212051335.22580-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pkshih@realtek.com, davem@davemloft.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kai-Heng Feng To: Kai-Heng Feng Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181212051335.22580-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > Once BSS STA mode gets started, it can be scanned by other clients but > cannot entablish a connection. > > Turns out the set_bcn_reg() and its *_set_beacon_related_registers() > callbacks never get called so it has problem beaconing. > > Enable the function in rtl_op_bss_info_changed() can make BSS STA mode > start to work. > > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng The commit log is quite misleading. It implies that the client mode is broken for all rtlwifi hardware and that can't be the case, otherwise we would be flooded by bug reports. So please improve the commit log and describe clearly the problem you are solving. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10725537/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches