[Contacting authors of the problematic commit with proposed patch] Hello,
I was investigating the regression in performance of wifi on my laptop (using rtl8192ce driver) and I believe that it is a result of recent commit 339162b: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf4747d7535a936105f0abe8d8109d3fe339162b I believe that during the refactoring the default name of the firmware file was erroneously changed to rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin (was rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin before this change) and, as a result, some logic used to determine the correct name of the firmware file for different sub-versions of the card was removed mistakenly as well. This causes wrong firmware to be loaded on my machine (rtl8192cfwU.bin instead of rtl8192cfw.bin), resulting in much more unstable link. Please consider applying the following patch to fix this situation: http://www.wooyd.org/tmp/rtl8192ce_firmware.patch I built a kernel with this patch applied, and the expected firmware was loaded as a result, fixing my problem: [ 13.202250] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin [ 13.253980] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [ 13.254434] rtlwifi: rtlwifi: wireless switch is on [ 13.460663] rtl8192ce 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin Cheers. -- Jurij Smakov | ju...@wooyd.org | Key ID: 43C30A7D
