[RESEND FIX PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mt7601u: add vnd_reset parameter to fix probe failure on Tenda U2

[RESEND FIX PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mt7601u: add vnd_reset parameter to fix probe failure on Tenda U2

[Herman Semenoff]

On certain MT7601U adapters, such as Tenda U2 (USB ID 148f:7601) and
other newer hardware revisions, driver initialization consistently fails
during probe with vendor request timeouts (-110 / -ETIMEDOUT):

    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: 76010500
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Firmware Version: 0.1.00 Build: 7640
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:07 off:09a8 failed:-110
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:02 off:09a8 failed:-110
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:07 off:0734 failed:-110
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:42 off:0230 failed:-110
    mt7601u 3-14:1.0: probe with driver mt7601u failed with error -110

The failure occurs because mt7601u_load_firmware() unconditionally calls
mt7601u_vendor_reset() (MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET) before uploading firmware
chunks. On these devices, issuing this vendor reset leaves the internal
MCU / FCE DMA engine in an unresponsive state after the first firmware
URB is submitted. As a result, reading MT_TX_CPU_FROM_FCE_CPU_DESC_IDX
(0x09a8) immediately times out.

The USB device is already reset during mt7601u_probe() via
usb_reset_device(), making this additional vendor-specific reset
redundant. The vendor driver never used it, and devices that work with
vendor reset also work properly without it.

Drop mt7601u_vendor_reset() and its definition to allow firmware upload
and probe to succeed on all MT7601U adapters.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1716301
Link: https://www.opena.tv/viewtopic.php?t=63919
Link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418850/the-problem-with-wi-fi-u2
Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224859
Link: https://reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1d6dfv5/mt7601u_usb_wifi_not_working/
Signed-off-by: Herman Semenoff <GermanAizek@aizekgroup.ru>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c | 3 ---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c | 6 ------
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h | 3 ---
 3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
index bad6ca821400..979bc506d4ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
@@ -459,9 +459,6 @@ static int mt7601u_load_firmware(struct mt7601u_dev *dev)
  mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x94c, 0);
  mt7601u_wr(dev, MT_FCE_PSE_CTRL, 0);

- mt7601u_vendor_reset(dev);
- msleep(5);
-
  mt7601u_wr(dev, 0xa44, 0);
  mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x230, 0x84210);
  mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x400, 0x80c00);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
index 9306870cbc91..0d38644c491e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
@@ -116,12 +116,6 @@ int mt7601u_vendor_request(struct mt7601u_dev
*dev, const u8 req,
  return ret;
 }

-void mt7601u_vendor_reset(struct mt7601u_dev *dev)
-{
- mt7601u_vendor_request(dev, MT_VEND_DEV_MODE, USB_DIR_OUT,
-       MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET, 0, NULL, 0);
-}
-
 /* should be called with vendor_req_mutex held */
 static u32 __mt7601u_rr(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, u32 offset)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
index 723025f84483..49fede310c3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
 #define MT_VEND_REQ_MAX_RETRY 10
 #define MT_VEND_REQ_TOUT_MS 300

-#define MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET 1
-
 #define MT_VEND_BUF sizeof(__le32)

 enum mt_vendor_req {
@@ -65,7 +63,6 @@ void mt7601u_complete_urb(struct urb *urb);
 int mt7601u_vendor_request(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, const u8 req,
    const u8 direction, const u16 val, const u16 offset,
    void *buf, const size_t buflen);
-void mt7601u_vendor_reset(struct mt7601u_dev *dev);
 int mt7601u_vendor_single_wr(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, const u8 req,
      const u16 offset, const u32 val);

-- 
2.55.0

base-commit: af5f12805e5cefa4fe68d6127c7e1fb78cd5535c

Re: [RESEND FIX PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mt7601u: add vnd_reset parameter to fix probe failure on Tenda U2

[Bitterblue Smith]

On 16/09/2026 04:33, Herman Semenoff wrote:
> On certain MT7601U adapters, such as Tenda U2 (USB ID 148f:7601) and
> other newer hardware revisions, driver initialization consistently fails
> during probe with vendor request timeouts (-110 / -ETIMEDOUT):
> 
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: 76010500
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Firmware Version: 0.1.00 Build: 7640
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:07 off:09a8 failed:-110
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:02 off:09a8 failed:-110
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:07 off:0734 failed:-110
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: Vendor request req:42 off:0230 failed:-110
>     mt7601u 3-14:1.0: probe with driver mt7601u failed with error -110
> 
> The failure occurs because mt7601u_load_firmware() unconditionally calls
> mt7601u_vendor_reset() (MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET) before uploading firmware
> chunks. On these devices, issuing this vendor reset leaves the internal
> MCU / FCE DMA engine in an unresponsive state after the first firmware
> URB is submitted. As a result, reading MT_TX_CPU_FROM_FCE_CPU_DESC_IDX
> (0x09a8) immediately times out.
> 
> The USB device is already reset during mt7601u_probe() via
> usb_reset_device(), making this additional vendor-specific reset
> redundant. The vendor driver never used it, and devices that work with
> vendor reset also work properly without it.
> 
> Drop mt7601u_vendor_reset() and its definition to allow firmware upload
> and probe to succeed on all MT7601U adapters.
> 

The subject ("add vnd_reset parameter...") doesn't match anymore what
the patch is doing.

When you send a new version of a patch please add "v2", "v3", etc next to
"PATCH".

"RESEND" is only for a patch that you send again completely unchanged for
whatever reason.

> Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1716301
> Link: https://www.opena.tv/viewtopic.php?t=63919
> Link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418850/the-problem-with-wi-fi-u2
> Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224859
> Link: https://reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1d6dfv5/mt7601u_usb_wifi_not_working/
> Signed-off-by: Herman Semenoff <GermanAizek@aizekgroup.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c | 3 ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c | 6 ------
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h | 3 ---
>  3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
> index bad6ca821400..979bc506d4ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
> @@ -459,9 +459,6 @@ static int mt7601u_load_firmware(struct mt7601u_dev *dev)
>   mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x94c, 0);
>   mt7601u_wr(dev, MT_FCE_PSE_CTRL, 0);
> 
> - mt7601u_vendor_reset(dev);
> - msleep(5);
> -
>   mt7601u_wr(dev, 0xa44, 0);
>   mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x230, 0x84210);
>   mt7601u_wr(dev, 0x400, 0x80c00);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
> index 9306870cbc91..0d38644c491e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.c
> @@ -116,12 +116,6 @@ int mt7601u_vendor_request(struct mt7601u_dev
> *dev, const u8 req,
>   return ret;
>  }
> 
> -void mt7601u_vendor_reset(struct mt7601u_dev *dev)
> -{
> - mt7601u_vendor_request(dev, MT_VEND_DEV_MODE, USB_DIR_OUT,
> -       MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET, 0, NULL, 0);
> -}
> -
>  /* should be called with vendor_req_mutex held */
>  static u32 __mt7601u_rr(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, u32 offset)
>  {
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
> b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
> index 723025f84483..49fede310c3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/usb.h
> @@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
>  #define MT_VEND_REQ_MAX_RETRY 10
>  #define MT_VEND_REQ_TOUT_MS 300
> 
> -#define MT_VEND_DEV_MODE_RESET 1
> -
>  #define MT_VEND_BUF sizeof(__le32)
> 
>  enum mt_vendor_req {
> @@ -65,7 +63,6 @@ void mt7601u_complete_urb(struct urb *urb);
>  int mt7601u_vendor_request(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, const u8 req,
>     const u8 direction, const u16 val, const u16 offset,
>     void *buf, const size_t buflen);
> -void mt7601u_vendor_reset(struct mt7601u_dev *dev);
>  int mt7601u_vendor_single_wr(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, const u8 req,
>       const u16 offset, const u32 val);
>