Glitches with 3.15 stable kernel

[Vistaus]

Since the update to 3.15 stable yesterday, the driver isn't working well anymore. The issues are:

1 2 out of 4 bars max whereas on 3.14 it's 4 bars. 2 Frequent dropouts (e.g. connection loss). 3 Even on moments w/o dropouts it's very, very slow.

I had to downgrade to 3.14 and on 3.14 the driver still works perfectly, max bars, no dropouts, fast connection, etc.

Hopefully you can fix the driver for 3.15 :)

[lwfinger]

I cannot fix anything as I do not have the hardware. You can do two things.

(1) Try the current software in the kernel-version branch of this repo. (2) Download any of the regular kernel git repos and bisect the problem between v3.15 (bad) and v3.14 (good). You can speed up the process as only drivers/staging/rtl8723au/ needs to be tested.

[lwfinger]

I just realized that #2 above does not make sense. The in-kernel version is only in 3.15, not in 3.14. Please state where the code for the driver is coming from.

[Vistaus]

The code for the driver is coming from your Git repo (which works fine in 3.14, but in 3.15 it has issues, like I said in the OP).

[lwfinger]

As 3.15 has the driver built in, are you sure that 3.15 is using driver 8723au, and not r8723au? The former would come from the repo, and the latter from the in-kernel version.

[jdgiotta]

Driver doesn't work in the 3.15 kernels. Downgrading is the only option... except now my devels/headers are gone.