Re: 4.9.62 breaks brcmfmac WiFi network scan

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 02:57:21PM +0100, Lambdadroid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded from 4.9.61 to 4.9.63 and noticed that there are no
> longer any WiFi networks found after upgrading.
> 
> After looking through the patches, it seems to be this brcmfmac commit
> from 4.9.62. Reverting it fixes the WiFi network scan.
> be5125d4fa9e: brcmfmac: setup wiphy bands after registering it first
> 
> However, looking further at the patch, it seems like it was submitted
> together with another patch that wasn't applied to 4.9:
> 9ea0c307609f: brcmfmac: don't preset all channels as disabled
> 
> Applying this patch additionally instead of reverting the broken patch
> seems to fix the issue as well.
> 
> Either way works. I'm not sure why only one of the patches were
> applied to stable. They were submitted together on linux-wireless:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg157813.html
> 
> For reference, I tested with a BCM43362 on Android and Arch Linux.
> Both didn't show any WiFi networks anymore after the update to
> 4.9.62+.

Thanks for letting us know about this, I've now queued up the extra
patch to the 4.9-stable tree.

thanks,

greg k-h



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