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rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:15:05 +0000 (16:15 -0500)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:23:18 +0000 (11:23 -0200)
commit58c48360541810109725864a09b0c16d9e23a792
tree71569ff308ce0d89afb2e65b19d3f79fed03ea87
parenteb5b68622592cf17736e9dd7d21cfab66f25f6de
rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1731951
commit b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 upstream.

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 issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c