Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Without this patch, firmware will not run properly on rtl8821ae, and it
> causes bad user experience. For example, bad connection performance with
> low rate, higher power consumption, and so on.
>
> rtl8821ae uses two kinds of firmwares for normal and WoWlan cases, and
> each firmware has firmware data buffer and size individually. Original
> code always overwrite size of normal firmware rtlpriv->rtlhal.fwsize, and
> this mismatch causes firmware checksum error, then firmware can't start.
>
> In this situation, driver gives message "Firmware is not ready to run!".
>
> Fixes: fe89707f0afa ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Simplify loading of WOWLAN firmware")
> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.0+
> Reviewed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
9a98302de199 rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix firmware is not ready to run
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10492933/
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