Alexis Lothoré <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ajay Singh <[email protected]>
>
> WILC driver currently applies some default configuration whenever the firmware
> is initialized, and sets the default preamble size to short. However, despite
> this passed option, firmware is also able to successfully connect to access
> points only using long preamble, so this setting does not really enforce short
> preambles and is misleading regarding applied configuration.
>
> Update default configuration and make it match the firmware behavior by passing
> the existing WILC_FW_PREAMBLE_AUTO value (2 instead of 0). The updated setting
> does not really alter firmware behavior since it is still capable to connect to
> both short preamble and long preamble access points, but at list the setting now
> expresses for real the corresponding firmware behavior.
>
> More info: it has been implemented to address the transmission (Tx) blackout
> issue observed in the 802.11b mode. The modification has no impact on the other
> modes, which will continue to work as they did in the previous implementation.
> This change will allow the 802.11b transmission (2, 5.5, 11Mbps) to use long
> preamble.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <[email protected]>
Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
a8e5fefa9123 wifi: wilc1000: set preamble size to auto as default in wilc_init_fw_config()
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