Hello Marcel,

> On Oct 4, 2018, at 2:25 AM, Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Kai-Heng,
>
>>> I think Canonical were facing some wifi fw load error from some 8260
>>> earlier module during the BT still loading the fw.
>>> I believe we had later 8260 sku that fixed this issue.
>>
>> But there are already 8260 that is affected by this bug in the wild.
>>
>> Search "Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to send firmware data (-38)” and there are 
>> lots of user are affected.
>
> which SKUs are these actually. What are the initial details about the boot 
> loader. For the Bluetooth side, you should be able to grab them from dmesg or 
> by running btmon.
>
> So I am not in favor of this kind of hack and creating dependencies between 
> drivers. If you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. And 
> this is a massive hammer trying to squash everything. This problem needs to 
> be debugged. And this starts by providing affected SKU information and 
> firmware information. So get the details about the SKU and its Bluetooth and 
> WiFi boot loaders.
>

I have a Lenovo Yoga 900 which presents this problem and has the same 
bootloader / firmware information as Kai-Heng already posted:

[    5.992426] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    5.992438] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    5.992442] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    5.992444] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    5.992450] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    6.004941] Bluetooth: hci0: Bootloader revision 0.0 build 2 week 52 2014
[    6.010922] Bluetooth: hci0: Device revision is 5
[    6.010923] Bluetooth: hci0: Secure boot is enabled
[    6.010924] Bluetooth: hci0: OTP lock is enabled
[    6.010925] Bluetooth: hci0: API lock is enabled
[    6.010926] Bluetooth: hci0: Debug lock is disabled
[    6.010927] Bluetooth: hci0: Minimum firmware build 1 week 10 2014
[    6.014253] bluetooth hci0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
intel/ibt-11-5.sfi
[    6.014256] Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.sfi
[    6.613961] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    6.613966] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    6.613974] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    6.983804] Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to send firmware data (-38)

And the following product id and revision, from usb-devices:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=06 Cnt=02 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=8087 ProdID=0a2b Rev=00.01
C:  #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb

I understand the drawbacks with the approach presented here and lack of clear 
explanation of the problem, but I can confirm these patches work around the 
problem on my machine. Is there any extra info or test result I can provide to 
help debug this? I can also dedicate time to help write a different solution if 
some guidance is provided.

Kai-Heng, did you end up filling a Bugzilla entry for this?

Please CC-me on the replies as I'm not receiving emails from linux-bluetooth or 
linux-wireless anymore.

Thanks,

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