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Re: [PATCH] Revert "wcn36xx: Enable firmware link monitoring"

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On 30/08/2021 18:09, Loic Poulain wrote:
This reverts commit 8def9ec46a5fafc0abcf34489a9e8a787bca984d.

The firmware keep-alive does not cause any event in case of error
such as non acked. It's just a basic keep alive to prevent the AP
to kick-off the station due to inactivity. So let mac80211 submit
its own monitoring packet (probe/null) and disconnect on timeout.

Note: We want to keep firmware keep alive to prevent kick-off
when host is in suspend-to-mem (no mac80211 monitor packet).
Ideally fw keep alive should be enabled in suspend path and disabled
in resume path to prevent having both firmware and mac80211 submitting
periodic null packets.

This fixes non detected AP leaving issues in active mode (nothing
monitors beacon or connection).

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8def9ec46a5f ("wcn36xx: Enable firmware link monitoring")
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c | 1 -
  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
index 216bc34..128d25d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,6 @@ static int wcn36xx_init_ieee80211(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
  	ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL);
  	ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS);
  	ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS);
-	ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, CONNECTION_MONITOR);
wcn->hw->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
  		BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |


But why is BSS heartbeat offload not running, it should be.

I agree we should switch this bit off for now since its obviously not working as intended.

But we need to root cause _why_

In suspend absent a working heartbeat monitor - if the AP goes away we stay in suspend indefinitely.

Given we don't have roam offload enabled either, in this reference, it also means we won't roam to a new AP until Linux resumes, which is certainly not the way we want this to work.

In any case, for now until we solve this bug

Acked-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx>






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