From 58c48360541810109725864a09b0c16d9e23a792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Larry Finger Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:15:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Cc: Ping-Ke Shih Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c index 2bc6bace069c..b4302f41493c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c @@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u16 addr) } if (0 == tmp) { read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4; - ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr); + ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr); } return ret; } -- 2.39.5