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Ping-Ke Shih af8a41cccf rtlwifi: cleanup 8723be ant_sel definition
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 c18d8f5095 ("rtlwifi:
rtl8723be: Add antenna select module parameter"). There was still a
problem with Bluetooth coexistence, which was addressed with commit
baa1702290 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Implement antenna selection").
There were still problems, thus there were commit 0ff78adeef
("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: fix ant_sel code") and commit 6d62269283
("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: c18d8f5095 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Add antenna select module parameter")
Fixes: baa1702290 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Implement antenna selection")
Fixes: 0ff78adeef ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: fix ant_sel code")
Fixes: 6d62269283 ("rtlwifi: btcoexist: Fix antenna selection code")
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.7+
Reviewed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
2018-04-24 13:15:08 +03:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.