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    Subject[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 031/273] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix 5G failure when EEPROM is incorrectly encoded
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    4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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    From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

    commit c72fc9093718a3f8597249863a1bac345ba00859 upstream.

    Recently, it has been reported that D-Link DWA-582 cards, which use an
    RTL8812AE chip are not able to scan for 5G networks. The problems started
    with kernel 4.2, which is the first version that had commit d10101a60372
    ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix problem with regulatory information"). With this
    patch, the driver went from setting a default channel plan to using
    the value derived from EEPROM.

    Bug reports at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111031 and
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279653 are examples of this
    problem.

    The problem was solved once I learned that the internal country code was
    resulting in a regulatory set with only 2.4 GHz channels. With the RTL8821AE
    chips available to me, the country code was such that both 2.4 and 5 GHz
    channels are allowed. The fix is to allow both bands even when the EEPROM
    is incorrectly encoded.

    Fixes: d10101a60372 ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix problem with regulatory information")
    Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
    Cc: littlesmartguy@gmail.com
    Cc: gabe@codehaus.org
    Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
    ---
    drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/regd.c | 2 +-
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

    diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/regd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/regd.c
    index a62bf0a..5be3411 100644
    --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/regd.c
    +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/regd.c
    @@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ static const struct ieee80211_regdomain *_rtl_regdomain_select(
    case COUNTRY_CODE_SPAIN:
    case COUNTRY_CODE_FRANCE:
    case COUNTRY_CODE_ISRAEL:
    - case COUNTRY_CODE_WORLD_WIDE_13:
    return &rtl_regdom_12_13;
    case COUNTRY_CODE_MKK:
    case COUNTRY_CODE_MKK1:
    @@ -360,6 +359,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_regdomain *_rtl_regdomain_select(
    return &rtl_regdom_14_60_64;
    case COUNTRY_CODE_GLOBAL_DOMAIN:
    return &rtl_regdom_14;
    + case COUNTRY_CODE_WORLD_WIDE_13:
    case COUNTRY_CODE_WORLD_WIDE_13_5G_ALL:
    return &rtl_regdom_12_13_5g_all;
    default:
    --
    2.7.0
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