danctnix-besser: ship patch 0002 — filter 5 GHz scans at driver boundary
Adds 0002-bes2600-filter-5ghz-scan.patch on top of the existing cumulative series, addressing besser issue #1 (recurring wsm_generic_confirm 0x0007 / [SCAN] Scan failed (-22) pattern). The fix refuses 5 GHz hw_scan iterations in bes2600_hw_scan; the firmware-reject cascade for the 5 GHz leg of mac80211's per-band hw_scan loop is short-circuited. Source-of-truth commit lives on marfrit/bes2600-dkms branch bes2600/scan-filter-5ghz (sha 093a503). Predicted Phase 7 delta: Pattern A rate 14/h -> 0/h. See besser#1 comment 1171 for the full Phase 0-4 analysis and Phase 5 review. pkgrel bumped to 2.
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From 093a5038b8b68f316d976b7cb69609ca7f24f322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Markus Fritsche <fritsche.markus@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 11:27:40 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] bes2600: filter 5 GHz scans at the driver boundary (besser#1)
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The BES2600 firmware refuses WSM start-scan for 5 GHz with status 2
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("rejected by policy"). This shows up in dmesg as the recurring
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wsm_generic_confirm failed for request 0x0007.
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[SCAN] Scan failed (-22).
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pattern (besser issue #1, ~14-16/h on ohm/PineTab2 baseline).
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Trace shows every reject is the second of a back-to-back pair: mac80211
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splits multi-band hw_scan requests per band when the driver does not
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set IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS (we don't), then re-invokes
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drv_hw_scan from __ieee80211_scan_completed for each subsequent band.
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The 2.4 GHz iteration succeeds; the 5 GHz iteration is what the
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firmware rejects. See ieee80211_prep_hw_scan in net/mac80211/scan.c
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for the loop, and the existing memory reference_bes2600_5ghz_scan_reject
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for the firmware behaviour.
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The 056a71a defer-on-reject patch already in this tree handles the
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BT-A2DP-coex branch and the consecutive-reject backoff, but it cannot
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prevent the per-band-loop reject: by the time defer_should_scan is
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consulted, the per-band call is already in flight, and the reject_count
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gets reset on every successful 2.4 GHz scan in between (which is
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~36% of attempts), so the threshold never trips.
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The fix: refuse the 5 GHz iteration upfront in bes2600_hw_scan. The
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2.4 GHz scan still runs normally. The 5 GHz portion is reported as
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aborted to userspace -- same outcome as today, minus the dmesg storm
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and the wsm_generic_confirm WARN cascade.
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5 GHz band registration is intentionally left in place: direct-BSSID
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association to a known 5 GHz AP still works (no scan is needed for
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that path), and a future firmware update that fixes the scan behaviour
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should not be foreclosed by changing band advertisement.
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Contract: per include/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ops.hw_scan, a negative
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return aborts the scan without requiring ieee80211_scan_completed().
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-EOPNOTSUPP is the semantically accurate code (operation is legal,
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driver can't service it on this band today).
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Phase 3 evidence:
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- baseline N=3: rate ~14.3-23.6/h converged at 14.3/h (matches OP)
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- back-to-back scan gap: 6/6 rejected pairs <200us, 1/1 successful
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pair was 114ms (single-band-only, no 5 GHz leg)
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- defer log fires: 0/9 in 30-min window (056a71a structurally bypassed)
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Predicted Phase 7 delta: Pattern A 14/h -> 0/h.
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---
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bes2600/scan.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/bes2600/scan.c b/drivers/staging/bes2600/scan.c
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index fb1d298..a81afb6 100644
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--- a/drivers/staging/bes2600/scan.c
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+++ b/drivers/staging/bes2600/scan.c
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@@ -238,6 +238,28 @@ int bes2600_hw_scan(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
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/* Scan when P2P_GO corrupt firmware MiniAP mode */
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if (priv->join_status == BES2600_JOIN_STATUS_AP)
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return -EOPNOTSUPP;
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+
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+ /*
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+ * Firmware refuses WSM start-scan for 5 GHz with status 2 ("rejected
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+ * by policy"); see besser issue #1. mac80211 splits multi-band
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+ * hw_scan requests per-band when the driver does not set
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+ * IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS (we don't -- see
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+ * ieee80211_hw_set() calls in bes2600_main.c), so each per-band call
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+ * has req->channels[] from one band only (see ieee80211_prep_hw_scan
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+ * in net/mac80211/scan.c). Refuse the 5 GHz iteration at the driver
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+ * boundary so userspace gets a clean aborted-scan for that portion
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+ * rather than waiting for the firmware reject to cascade up. 5 GHz
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+ * band registration stays intact so direct-BSSID association to a
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+ * known 5 GHz AP still works (no scan needed for that path).
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+ *
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+ * Contract: per include/net/mac80211.h struct ieee80211_ops.hw_scan
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+ * documentation, a negative return aborts the scan without requiring
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+ * ieee80211_scan_completed().
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+ */
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+ if (req->n_channels > 0 &&
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+ req->channels[0]->band == NL80211_BAND_5GHZ)
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+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
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+
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#if 0
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if (work_pending(&priv->offchannel_work) ||
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(hw_priv->roc_if_id != -1)) {
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--
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2.54.0
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
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pkgbase=linux-pinetab2-danctnix-besser
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pkgver=7.0.danctnix1
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pkgrel=1
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pkgrel=2
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pkgdesc='PineTab2 (BESser bes2600 driver patchset)'
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_srcname=linux-pinetab2
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_srctag=v${pkgver%.*}-${pkgver##*.}
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ source=(
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https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v${pkgver%%.*}.x/linux-${pkgver%.*}.tar.{xz,sign}
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${_url_git}/releases/download/${_srctag}/${_srctag}.patch.zst{,.sig}
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0001-bes2600-besser-cumulative-series.patch
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0002-bes2600-filter-5ghz-scan.patch
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config # the main kernel config file
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)
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validpgpkeys=(
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@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ b2sums=('3d9795083c8938f80f480de0d10bfd9c525640e59d5c7f22983de3f12ee42c84c31be90
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'71fe98221e802b315e54b4b10d3e8c8f376695a36bae3541d876e5776a37f3fa33c8f8dfa6e51fcbd6f5396add02e5166634165f2351836a0ea0453c172fe56c'
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'SKIP'
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'fca0a5badf762d5dbc085261cccc07ddeef96384d2ae0a426fb0412acd7a180e068cabd59f01342b7575d41889afc0f47dfbc9256801ab809f746278e6dab510'
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'7efbd3e09f2d37aa1ed185f24775fab76b31036c7eab76f7b0a7950a24b0439c5978afcae80feb248d3e7776fa04e34ffe412a3073cc40677679f77cb18be433'
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'19c35c69a4ed40635fb6ad108d2e0ed3d0edc682972255b4a9b719d09e377aa916e533b2e29f4aed256d3a393d77df9e11b661b690acd96edcf61eafe016f55b')
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export KBUILD_BUILD_HOST=archlinux
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