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The key condition to check in wrapper of setting TX power is whether entity is active or not. Before entity is active, we restrict TX power from being set by outside callers, e.g. SAR/regulatory. We mark entity as inactive when powering off MAC. Then, we will mark it as active when we initialize HW channel stuffs after MAC power on. Although we can get an active entity after leaving idle phase, TX power doesn't be set well for default channel until stack set target channel for connection. It causes that RF things cannot use better TX power during this interval. Below are some cases which may encounter this or a similar situation. * hw scan process before connection As described above. * right after restart hardware process (SER L2) HW stuffs of target channel is initialized after mac80211 restart hardware, but we unexpectedly need to wait one more command to set channel again or to set TX power. To fix it and improve RF behavior in that interval, during setting channel, we don't need to check entity state before setting TX power, which actually is used to restrict outside callers. It means we call chip ops directly to replace the wrapper call. Then, TX power can be initialized as long as we initialize/setup HW stuffs on one channel. Besides, all chips should configure ops of setting TX power, so we remove trivial check on pointer. Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531060713.57203-4-pkshih@realtek.com
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.