Atheros 1525/QCA6174 BT issue

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 03:28:06 EST


Hi,

we've got a but report about the broken Atheros BT on the recent
kernels:
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082504

In short, btusb can't load the patch ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu, and
this could be worked around by the patch to move 0cf3:3004 blacklist
entry to use BTUSB_QCA_ROM instead of BTUSB_ATH3012.

And this looks like a long-standing problem, at least for over two
years. Many web pages suggest the same patch, but it's never merged
to upstream.

So this made me wonder what's going on. I see that the BTUSB_ATH3012
quirk was originally introduced just for this chip id (0cf3:3004).
Is it a different variant from the original chip that causes a
problem?

I'm happy to get any fix patch and can provide a test kernel to the
reporter.


FWIW, the device looks like:

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=09 Cnt=03 Dev#= 4 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0cf3 ProdID=3004 Rev= 0.01
C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 2 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 3 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 4 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 5 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=btusb
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms

And the lsusb output:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:3004 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR3012
Bluetooth 4.0


thanks,

Takashi