From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38056 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753514AbdBJVLX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:11:23 -0500 Subject: Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix loading of incorrect firmware" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: jurij@wooyd.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:10:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1486761058154186@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix loading of incorrect firmware to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtlwifi-rtl8192ce-fix-loading-of-incorrect-firmware.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 52f5631a4c056ad01682393be56d2be237e81610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jurij Smakov Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:41:36 -0600 Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix loading of incorrect firmware From: Jurij Smakov commit 52f5631a4c056ad01682393be56d2be237e81610 upstream. In commit cf4747d7535a ("rtlwifi: Fix regression caused by commit d86e64768859, an error in the edit results in the wrong firmware being loaded for some models of the RTL8188/8192CE. In this condition, the connection suffered from high ping latency, slow transfer rates, and required higher signal strengths to work at all See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853073, https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017471, and https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/203 for descriptions of the problems. This patch fixes all of those problems. Fixes: cf4747d7535a ("rtlwifi: Fix regression caused by commit d86e64768859") Signed-off-by: Jurij Smakov Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/sw.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/sw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/sw.c @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ int rtl92c_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80211 struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw); struct rtl_pci *rtlpci = rtl_pcidev(rtl_pcipriv(hw)); struct rtl_hal *rtlhal = rtl_hal(rtl_priv(hw)); - char *fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin"; + char *fw_name; rtl8192ce_bt_reg_init(hw); @@ -168,8 +168,13 @@ int rtl92c_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80211 } /* request fw */ - if (IS_81XXC_VENDOR_UMC_B_CUT(rtlhal->version)) + if (IS_VENDOR_UMC_A_CUT(rtlhal->version) && + !IS_92C_SERIAL(rtlhal->version)) + fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin"; + else if (IS_81XXC_VENDOR_UMC_B_CUT(rtlhal->version)) fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin"; + else + fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin"; rtlpriv->max_fw_size = 0x4000; pr_info("Using firmware %s\n", fw_name); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jurij@wooyd.org are queue-4.9/rtlwifi-rtl8192ce-fix-loading-of-incorrect-firmware.patch