Re: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly

2018-02-07 Thread Kalle Valo
i: Fix alignment issues"); however, this change led to > instability in the connection. To restore stability, this change > was reverted in commit b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection > lost problem"). > > Unfortunately, the unaligned access causes machine che

Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly

2018-02-06 Thread Kalle Valo
i: Fix alignment issues"); however, this change led to > instability in the connection. To restore stability, this change > was reverted in commit b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection > lost problem"). > > Unfortunately, the unaligned access causes machine che

Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly

2018-02-05 Thread James Cameron
quot;rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"); however, this change led to > instability in the connection. To restore stability, this change > was reverted in commit b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection > lost problem"). > > Unfortunately, the unaligned access causes ma

[PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly

2018-02-05 Thread Larry Finger
connection. To restore stability, this change was reverted in commit b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem"). Unfortunately, the unaligned access causes machine checks in ARM architecture, and we were finally forced to find the actual cause of the problem on x86

Re: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

2017-10-02 Thread Kalle Valo
.11+ > Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pks...@realtek.com> Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks. b8b8b16352cd rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9962615/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

Re: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

2017-09-25 Thread Larry Finger
On 09/25/2017 03:06 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: Larry Finger wrote: In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.

Re: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

2017-09-25 Thread Kalle Valo
Larry Finger wrote: > In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read > of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi > this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection. > This regression was located using

[PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

2017-09-20 Thread Larry Finger
In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection. This regression was located using bisection. Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment