Re: [PATCH v2] rtl8xxxu: fix RTL8723BU connection failure issue after warm reboot

[Chris Chiu]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:54 AM Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The RTL8723BU has problems connecting to AP after each warm reboot.
> Sometimes it returns no scan result, and in most cases, it fails
> the authentication for unknown reason. However, it works totally
> fine after cold reboot.
>
> Compare the value of register SYS_CR and SYS_CLK_MAC_CLK_ENABLE
> for cold reboot and warm reboot, the registers imply that the MAC
> is already powered and thus some procedures are skipped during
> driver initialization. Double checked the vendor driver, it reads
> the SYS_CR and SYS_CLK_MAC_CLK_ENABLE also but doesn't skip any
> during initialization based on them. This commit only tells the
> RTL8723BU to do full initialization without checking MAC status.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, I forgot to add Jes.

Chris
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> Note:
>   v2: fix typo of commit message
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