2021-09-27 00:09:29

by Shawn Guo

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "brcmfmac: use ISO3166 country code and 0 rev as fallback"

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:19:05PM +0200, Soeren Moch wrote:
> This reverts commit b0b524f079a23e440dd22b04e369368dde847533.
>
> Commit b0b524f079a2 ("brcmfmac: use ISO3166 country code and 0 rev
> as fallback") changes country setup to directly use ISO3166 country
> codes if no more specific code is configured. This was done under
> the assumption that brcmfmac firmwares can handle such simple
> direct mapping from country codes to firmware ccode values.
>
> Unfortunately this is not true for all chipset/firmware combinations.
> E.g. BCM4359/9 devices stop working as access point with this change,
> so revert the offending commit to avoid the regression.
>
> Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] # 5.14.x

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <[email protected]>