Recent driver changes destabilized QCA9377 connection quality

[Valo, Kalle]

Tobias Predel <tobias.predel at gmail.com> writes:

> I just want to report a negative development I have been experiencing
> for a week now.
>
> Recent changes in ath10k driver code seem to destabilize QCA9377
> connection quality in 802.11b/g networks, as hardware and software
> configuration (wpa_supplicant) hasn't changed. Before, I have managed
> to have a fair connection quality for around three months. At the
> moment I encounter multiple connection losses.
>
> dmesg reports usual losses and timeouts on both linux-lts 4.4.44 and
> linux 4.8.13 (Arch Linux).
>
> Please restore former functionality.

You mention recent changes, so what kernel exact version works without
problems? Has the firmware version remained the same all the time?

If it's a regression in kernel, can you bisect to find the commit which
broke it? You would need to compile your own kernels to do that.

-- 
Kalle Valo