On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:34:14AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I have no idea what AutoRun mode is (it seems that the stick already
> has a firmware and is happy with it) and I have no clue why the firmware
> decides to lie about it. I looked at the vendor driver I found at github
> (which seems to be from 2012-10-22, DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3) and
> well, I look again if someone says it is worth looking… They seem to do
> some kind "firmware is comming" magic which might be already done in the
> current driver at a different spot but I think the main question is why
> request is answered wrong. I *think* the vendor driver sends the
> USB_MODE_AUTORUN request only once but it is hard to tell…
Does the below patch solve the issue ?
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
index 9a2f44a..3a6cae8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ static int rt2800usb_write_firmware(struct rt2x00_dev
*rt2x00dev,
if (retval) {
rt2x00_info(rt2x00dev,
"Firmware loading not required - NIC in AutoRun
mode\n");
+ __clear_bit(REQUIRE_FIRMWARE, &rt2x00dev->cap_flags);
} else {
rt2x00usb_register_multiwrite(rt2x00dev, FIRMWARE_IMAGE_BASE,
data + offset, length);
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