On 7/3/19 3:42 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:42 PM Jes Sorensen [off-list ref] wrote:

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We definitely don't want to bring over the vendor code, since it's a
pile of spaghetti, but we probably need to get something sorted. This
went down the drain when the bluetooth driver was added without taking
it into account - long after this driver was merged.

Yeah, I didn't mean bring over quite so literally.. Chris is studying
it and figuring out the neatest way to reimplement the required bits.

As for the relationship with bluetooth.. actually the bug that Chris
is working on here is that the rtl8xxxu wifi signal is totally
unusable *until* the bluetooth driver is loaded.

So this is not my experience at all from when I wrote the code. The
8723bu dongle I used for it came up just fine.

Once the bluetooth driver is loaded, at the point of bluetooth
firmware upload, the rtl8xxxu signal magiaclly strength becomes good.
I think this is consistent with other rtl8xxxu problem reports that we
saw lying around, although they had not been diagnosed in so much
detail.

See this is the very opposite of what I have experienced. The bluetooth
driver ruins the signal when it's loaded with my dongle.

The rtl8723bu vendor driver does not suffer this problem, it works
fine with or without the bluetooth driver in place.

My point is this seems to be very dongle dependent :( We have to be
careful not breaking it for some users while fixing it for others.

Cheers,
Jes