Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com wrote:
From: Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com
Some HP laptops have only a single wifi antenna. This would not be a problem except that they were shipped with an incorrectly encoded EFUSE. It should have been possible to open the computer and transfer the antenna connection to the other terminal except that such action might void the warranty, and moving the antenna broke the Windows driver. The fix was to add a module option that would override the EFUSE encoding. That was done with commit c18d8f509571 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Add antenna select module parameter"). There was still a problem with Bluetooth coexistence, which was addressed with commit baa170229095 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Implement antenna selection"). There were still problems, thus there were commit 0ff78adeef11 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: fix ant_sel code") and commit 6d6226928369 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Fix antenna selection code"). Despite all these attempts at fixing the problem, the code is not yet right. A proper fix is important as there are now instances of laptops having RTL8723DE chips with the same problem.
The module parameter ant_sel is used to control antenna number and path. At present enum ANT_{X2,X1} is used to define the antenna number, but this choice is not intuitive, thus change to a new enum ANT_{MAIN,AUX} to make it more readable. This change showed examples where incorrect values were used. It was also possible to remove a workaround in halbtcoutsrc.c.
The experimental results with single antenna connected to specific path are now as follows: ant_sel ANT_MAIN(#1) ANT_AUX(#2) 0 -8 -62 1 -62 -10 2 -6 -60
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com Fixes: c18d8f509571 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Add antenna select module parameter") Fixes: baa170229095 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Implement antenna selection") Fixes: 0ff78adeef11 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: fix ant_sel code") Fixes: 6d6226928369 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Fix antenna selection code") Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.7+ Reviewed-by: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
af8a41cccf8f rtlwifi: cleanup 8723be ant_sel definition