Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Ignore BTCOEX events from the 88W8897 firmware

[Kalle Valo]

Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The firmware of the 88W8897 PCIe+USB card sends those events very
> unreliably, sometimes bluetooth together with 2.4ghz-wifi is used and no
> COEX event comes in, and sometimes bluetooth is disabled but the
> coexistance mode doesn't get disabled.
> 
> This means we sometimes end up capping the rx/tx window size while
> bluetooth is not enabled anymore, artifically limiting wifi speeds even
> though bluetooth is not being used.
> 
> Since we can't fix the firmware, let's just ignore those events on the
> 88W8897 device. From some Wireshark capture sessions it seems that the
> Windows driver also doesn't change the rx/tx window sizes when bluetooth
> gets enabled or disabled, so this is fairly consistent with the Windows
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

84d94e16efa2 mwifiex: Ignore BTCOEX events from the 88W8897 firmware

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