Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> > > Without this patch, firmware will not run properly on rtl8821ae, and it > causes bad user experience. For example, bad connection performance with > low rate, higher power consumption, and so on. > > rtl8821ae uses two kinds of firmwares for normal and WoWlan cases, and > each firmware has firmware data buffer and size individually. Original > code always overwrite size of normal firmware rtlpriv->rtlhal.fwsize, and > this mismatch causes firmware checksum error, then firmware can't start. > > In this situation, driver gives message "Firmware is not ready to run!". > > Fixes: fe89707f0afa ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Simplify loading of WOWLAN > firmware") > Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> > Cc: Stable <[email protected]> # 4.0+ > Reviewed-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks. 9a98302de199 rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix firmware is not ready to run -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10492933/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
