Re: PROBLEM: 5.3.0-rc* causes iwlwifi failure

From: Stuart Little
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 19:38:20 EST


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:45:37PM +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> I'll have to look into all NIC/FW-version combinations that we have and
> update the iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support() function accordingly, which is,
> BTW, the easier place for you to change if you want to workaround the
> issue.

Thanks!

I didn't quite know how to interpret this suggestion (i.e. what the change should be), so I was poking around in there out of curiosity. One simple-minded thing that worked was to just pretend that that function always returns false:

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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
index 5de54d1559dd..8c0160e5588f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_get_sar_geo_profile(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
.data = { data },
};

- if (!iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(mvm))
+ /*if (!iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(mvm))*/
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

ret = iwl_mvm_send_cmd(mvm, &cmd);
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ static int iwl_mvm_sar_geo_init(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
int ret, i, j;
u16 cmd_wide_id = WIDE_ID(PHY_OPS_GROUP, GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT);

- if (!iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(mvm))
+ /*if (!iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(mvm))*/
return 0;

ret = iwl_mvm_sar_get_wgds_table(mvm);

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