Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: prevent watchdog from interfering with scanning and connecting

[Fu, Zhonghui]

On 2014/8/5 0:52, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 12:36:49AM +0800, Fu, Zhonghui wrote:
>> Hi, Arend
>>
>> I investigated this issue, and its root cause is still that sdio
>> controller can't receive interrupts from WiFi chip on sdio bus when
>> sdio controller is in runtime suspend status. I am running 3.16-rc5
>> linux kernel on ASUS T100TA tablet, and using sdhci-acpi driver.
> That's the root cause.  I fixed this with the Freescale i.MX SD driver
> which is now able to report pending SDIO interrupts while runtime PM
> suspended.
>
> Other host drivers probably need fixing too, or having runtime PM
> disabled on them - if you can't receive SDIO interrupts while runtime
> PM suspended, then entering runtime PM while you have a SDIO device
> attached is a bug.
>
> This is something for the MMC people to deal with rather than Arend.
>
Yes, this should be sdhci-acpi bug, I will contact MMC people for this issue.


Thanks,
Zhonghui
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