netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix non-working BSS STA mode

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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:56:15 +0800
From:   Kai Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     pkshih@...ltek.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix non-working BSS STA mode



> On Dec 20, 2018, at 14:42, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> 
> Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
>> Once BSS STA mode gets started, it can be scanned by other clients but
>> cannot entablish a connection.
>> 
>> Turns out the set_bcn_reg() and its *_set_beacon_related_registers()
>> callbacks never get called so it has problem beaconing.
>> 
>> Enable the function in rtl_op_bss_info_changed() can make BSS STA mode
>> start to work.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
> 
> The commit log is quite misleading. It implies that the client mode is broken
> for all rtlwifi hardware and that can't be the case, otherwise we would be
> flooded by bug reports. So please improve the commit log and describe clearly
> the problem you are solving.

You are right. I'll wait for PKShih’s test result and update commit log afterwards.

Kai-Heng

> 
> -- 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10725537/
> 
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
>