netdev - [PATCH] mwifiex: Ignore BTCOEX events from the 88W8897 firmware

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Date:   Wed,  3 Nov 2021 21:58:27 +0100
From:   Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
To:     Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>,
        Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@...il.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: Ignore BTCOEX events from the 88W8897 firmware

The firmware of the 88W8897 PCIe+USB card sends those events very
unreliably, sometimes bluetooth together with 2.4ghz-wifi is used and no
COEX event comes in, and sometimes bluetooth is disabled but the
coexistance mode doesn't get disabled.

This means we sometimes end up capping the rx/tx window size while
bluetooth is not enabled anymore, artifically limiting wifi speeds even
though bluetooth is not being used.

Since we can't fix the firmware, let's just ignore those events on the
88W8897 device. From some Wireshark capture sessions it seems that the
Windows driver also doesn't change the rx/tx window sizes when bluetooth
gets enabled or disabled, so this is fairly consistent with the Windows
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h      | 2 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c      | 3 +++
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
index 90012cbcfd15..486315691851 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
@@ -1055,6 +1055,8 @@ struct mwifiex_adapter {
 	void *devdump_data;
 	int devdump_len;
 	struct timer_list devdump_timer;
+
+	bool ignore_btcoex_events;
 };
 
 void mwifiex_process_tx_queue(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
index c3f5583ea70d..d5fb29400bad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
@@ -3152,6 +3152,9 @@ static int mwifiex_init_pcie(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_alloc_buffers;
 
+	if (pdev->device == PCIE_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88W8897)
+		adapter->ignore_btcoex_events = true;
+
 	return 0;
 
 err_alloc_buffers:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
index 68c63268e2e6..80e5d44bad9d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,9 @@ int mwifiex_process_sta_event(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
 		break;
 	case EVENT_BT_COEX_WLAN_PARA_CHANGE:
 		dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "EVENT: BT coex wlan param update\n");
+		if (adapter->ignore_btcoex_events)
+			break;
+
 		mwifiex_bt_coex_wlan_param_update_event(priv,
 							adapter->event_skb);
 		break;
-- 
2.33.1