Bluetooth: btusb: Always fallback to alt 1 for WBS
When alt mode 6 is not available, fallback to the kernel <= 5.7 behavior of always using alt mode 1. Prior to kernel 5.8, btusb would always use alt mode 1 for WBS (Wide Band Speech aka mSBC aka transparent SCO). In commit baac6276 ("Bluetooth: btusb: handle mSBC audio over USB Endpoints") this was changed to use alt mode 6, which is the recommended mode in the Bluetooth spec (Specifications of the Bluetooth System, v5.0, Vol 4.B §2.2.1). However, many if not most BT USB adapters do not support alt mode 6. In fact, I have been unable to find any which do. In kernel 5.8, this was changed to use alt mode 6, and if not available, use alt mode 0. But mode 0 has a zero byte max packet length and can not possibly work. It is just there as a zero-bandwidth dummy mode to work around a USB flaw that would prevent device enumeration if insufficient bandwidth were available for the lowest isoc mode supported. In effect, WBS was broken for all USB-BT adapters that do not support alt 6, which appears to nearly all of them. Then in commit 461f95f0 ("Bluetooth: btusb: USB alternate setting 1 for WBS") the 5.7 behavior was restored, but only for Realtek adapters. I've tested a Broadcom BRCM20702A and CSR 8510 adapter, both work with the 5.7 behavior and do not with the 5.8. So get rid of the Realtek specific flag and use the 5.7 behavior for all adapters as a fallback when alt 6 is not available. This was the kernel's behavior prior to 5.8 and I can find no adapters for which it is not correct. And even if there is an adapter for which this does not work, the current behavior would be to fall back to alt 0, which can not possibly work either, and so is no better. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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