On 25/09/2022 19:53, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 9/18/22 08:35, Bitterblue Smith wrote: >> Inform the firmware when connecting to a network. This makes the >> firmware enable the rate control, which makes the upload faster. >> >> Don't inform the firmware when disconnecting from a network, because >> that makes reconnecting impossible for some reason: > > Have you dug through the vendor driver to see what it does here? > > Thanks, > Jes > I hadn't investigated, but since you asked :) I looked into it today. The vendor driver doesn't do anything weird. Our report_connect function *should* work. And it turns out it does work! I restored the original form of the function to test something and reconnecting worked. I couldn't reproduce the problem anymore. Not much has changed in rtl8xxxu since the last time I tried this, so it was easy to find the reason: fixing the queue selection [0] fixed the reconnecting problem. Before, it was sending the auth attempts using queue 0x7 (TXDESC_QUEUE_VO). With the queue selection fix it uses queue 0x12 (TXDESC_QUEUE_MGNT). Perhaps queue 0x7 is not functional when the firmware knows it's not connected to a network? I guess I have to send a different patch for this now. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/7fa4819a-4f20-b2af-b7a6-8ee01ac49295@xxxxxxxxx/
