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rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:15:05 +0000 (16:15 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:38:08 +0000 (10:38 +0200)
commit5a6fb4920381b13ad3349c1c0288d19426fc2850
tree3ad447f2c67b446ff064d960290917fce4f32bbc
parentf1ae556a31dd59ebce9b8282bf271f307777646e
rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

commit b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 upstream.

In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
This regression was located using bisection.

Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c