From patchwork Fri Aug 7 03:11:13 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" X-Patchwork-Id: 6964711 X-Patchwork-Delegate: kvalo@adurom.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-wireless@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-parsemail@patchwork2.web.kernel.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.136]) by patchwork2.web.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8AFC05AC for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 03:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF10205FA for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 03:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E11E205CB for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 03:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754034AbbHGDLR (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:11:17 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:36025 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752118AbbHGDLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:11:16 -0400 Received: by pacrr5 with SMTP id rr5so41743046pac.3 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id; bh=yCrZ+B2Qh5ybTwGLDUYxnGu5Ifz52RYF9H9Z45DX3o0=; b=hx6RrmsGykBYp+p9p9TCqQuLBxx/b0DkvT99xqPeKRdcoBJkRr11MgpXD2plhAnT5W HfjTRYph9a4z0abRpEuTrPXxK+CgwzHBGa9cguO/Na269b9bi/Lp2NDJnlAAyCxhRj6q dKpdGy01yNQxSL21XFWqJZXzo/G+XyRnj2R+mcI75Tb0wcgOrPIIk+vg0xKBLsGUBhmA slJ7zsityF0usjimSNN3hs011x3XmugWaB2H7vNCREBY9Q4ns+tl42mOHW67EQOIkRbA HI8NpP/XLGC6+WVXKY1e3vE1LRW373Ftm+8BKgX3QTRRpBNxiF5GRnBlIAfgEEjusEZV iRcQ== X-Received: by 10.68.250.5 with SMTP id yy5mr9990130pbc.34.1438917076479; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (61-221-51-174.HINET-IP.hinet.net. [61.221.51.174]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z16sm8126960pbt.3.2015.08.06.20.11.15 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:11:15 -0700 (PDT) From: AceLan Kao To: Larry Finger , Chaoming Li , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8723be: disable FW control power save Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:11:13 +0800 Message-Id: <1438917073-5720-1-git-send-email-acelan.kao@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_DKIM_INVALID,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP There are many rtl8723be wifi unstable issues that wifi lost connection after working for a while. The wifi signal and status it's show connected also ifconfig have IP but can not connect to internet and filed to ping 8.8.8.8 The problem should result from the power saving controlled by firmware. I'd suggest to disable it by default and re-enable it after firmware fixes this issue. BTW. the firmware I tested from linux-firmware git tree is rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin be225d6 Update firmware for rtl8723be Signed-off-by: AceLan Kao --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c index 1017f02..02fe2cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static struct rtl_mod_params rtl8723be_mod_params = { .sw_crypto = false, .inactiveps = true, .swctrl_lps = false, - .fwctrl_lps = true, + .fwctrl_lps = false, }; static struct rtl_hal_cfg rtl8723be_hal_cfg = {