On 02/09/2017 01:43 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
[+cc rtl8192ce folks in case they've seen this]
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 03:45:01PM +0100, rupert THURNER wrote:
hi,
not technical expert enough, i just wanted to give a short user
feedback. for realtek wlan on atom, kernels up to 4.9.5 are ok, and
kernel 4.10.0-rc7-g926af6273fc6 (arch linux-git version numbering) as
well. kernels 4.9.6, 4.9.7, and 4.9.8 fail, i.e. connection to a WLAN
hotspot is possible then drops, or connecting to wlan fails
alltogether.
Thanks very much for your report, and sorry for the inconvenience.
v4.10-rc7 works, so I guess we don't need to worry about fixing v4.10.
But the stable kernels v4.9.6, v4.9.7, and v4.9.8 are broken, so we
need to figure out why and make sure we fix the v4.9 stable series.
I can't tell yet whether this is PCI-related or not. If it is,
4922a6a5cfa7 ("PCI: Enumerate switches below PCI-to-PCIe bridges")
appeared in v4.9.6, and there is a known issue with that. The issue
should be fixed by 610c2b7ff8f6 ("PCI/ASPM: Handle PCI-to-PCIe bridges
as roots of PCIe hierarchies"), which appeared in v4.9.9, so I guess
the first thing to do would be to test v4.9.9.
If it's not fixed in v4.9.9, can you share the complete dmesg log
(output of "dmesg" command) and "lspci -vv" output for v4.9.5 (last
known working version) and v4.9.6 (first known broken version)? On
v4.9.6, collect the dmesg output after the failure occurs.
24: PCI 300.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.366]
Model: "Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter"
Device: pci 0x8176 "RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter"
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "rtl8192ce"
Driver Modules: "rtl8192ce"
Device File: wlp3s0
Features: WLAN
It would be helpful if someone were to bisect this issue. The only issue that
comes to mind was fixed in commit 52f5631a4c05 ("rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix loading
of incorrect firmware") which is in 4.10-rc7 and will be backported to 4.9.
The above issue is one that could not be reproduced on my hardware, thus it took
Jurij Smakov to find the fix. Without his bisection of the problem, who knows
how long it would have taken to find my edit mistake.
Larry
