Re: ath10k: fix core PCI suspend when WoWLAN is supported but disabled

[Kalle Valo]

Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For devices where the FW supports WoWLAN but user-space has not
> configured it, we don't do any PCI-specific suspend/resume operations,
> because mac80211 doesn't call drv_suspend() when !wowlan. This has
> particularly bad effects for some platforms, because we don't stop the
> power-save timer, and if this timer goes off after the PCI controller
> has suspended the link, Bad Things will happen.
> 
> Commit 32faa3f0ee50 ("ath10k: add the PCI PM core suspend/resume ops")
> got some of this right, in that it understood there was a problem on
> non-WoWLAN firmware. But it forgot the $subject case.
> 
> Fix this by moving all the PCI driver suspend/resume logic exclusively
> into the driver PM hooks. This shouldn't affect WoWLAN support much
> (this just gets executed later on).
> 
> I would just as well kill the entirety of ath10k_hif_suspend(), as it's
> not even implemented on the USB or SDIO drivers. I expect that we don't
> need the callback, except to return "supported" (i.e., 0) or "not
> supported" (i.e., -EOPNOTSUPP).
> 
> Fixes: 32faa3f0ee50 ("ath10k: add the PCI PM core suspend/resume ops")
> Fixes: 77258d409ce4 ("ath10k: enable pci soc powersaving")
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

96378bd2c6cd ath10k: fix core PCI suspend when WoWLAN is supported but disabled

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