Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi

From: Kai Heng Feng
Date: Wed Oct 03 2018 - 05:27:52 EST




> On Oct 3, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>> To avoid the firmware loading race between Bluetooth and WiFi on Intel
>> 8260, load firmware exclusively when BT_INTEL is enabled.
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>> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Still the commit log tells nothing about the actual problem which makes
> review impossible.

Sorry for that. The first two patches [1] only sends to linux-bluetooth and LMKL.

I donât know what really happened at hardware/firmware level, but making btusb and iwlwifi load firmware sequentially can workaround the issue.

Matt Chen may be able to explain this issue with more detail.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/3/322

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