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

[Chris Chiu]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:26 AM Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:54 AM Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > ---
> >
> > Note:
> >   v2: fix typo of commit message
> >
> >

Gentle ping. Cheers.

Chris