iwl3945: disable hw scan by default
PATCH 1/1 iwl3945: disable hw scan by default
After new NetworkManager 0.8.996 changes, hardware scanning is causing microcode errors as reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683571
and sometimes kernel crashes:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688252
Also with hw scan there are very bad performance on some systems as reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671366
Since Intel no longer supports 3945, there is no chance to get proper firmware fixes, we need workaround problems by disable hardware scanning by default.
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This patch should be also applied on .38-stable (on older kernels software scan have performance problems), but need manual backport due to driver split. I will post to stable when it gets mainline.
John, please post upstream ASAP, together with commit c24057cbcd7480602ece65be3f7e039499499007 "iwl3945: do not deprecate software scan"
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945-base.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945-base.c +2 -1
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");struct iwl_mod_params iwl3945_mod_params = { .sw_crypto =1 , .restart_fw =1 , + .disable_hw_scan =1 ,/* the rest are 0 by default */ };
@@ -4279,7 +4280,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(swcrypto, "using software crypto (default 1 [software])");module_param_named (disable_hw_scan, iwl3945_mod_params.disable_hw_scan, int,S_IRUGO ); -MODULE_PARM_DESC (disable_hw_scan,"disable hardware scanning (default 0)" ); +MODULE_PARM_DESC (disable_hw_scan,"disable hardware scanning (default 1)" );#ifdef CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEGACY_DEBUG module_param_named (debug, iwlegacy_debug_level, uint,S_IRUGO |S_IWUSR );MODULE_PARM_DESC (debug,"debug output mask" );
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