[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: add WoW support

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:03:51AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:22 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 04:57:35AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:21 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > If we're associated and have not already gone into PS mode
> > > > we ensure send a nullfunc frame before going to suspend. Upon
> > > > resume we ensure we restore PS mode if it was enabled and inform
> > > > the driver accordingly, also notify the AP we're awake.
> > > > 
> > > > WoW requires the radio to be left on during suspend, to do this
> > > > we inform drivers of the requested wow triggers on the mac80211
> > > > stop callback.
> > > 
> > > I don't think this patch would work if ath9k unprogrammed the hardware
> > > correctly in ->remove_interface(), since you don't seem to skip that
> > > call.
> > 
> > We just stop ANI in remove interface and reclaim beacon resources.
> > As per documentation it seems we are not correctly removing the MAC
> > address in ath9k for the removed interface to stop sending ACKs back.
> > I'd rather see that as a separate patch fix, but you do have a point.
> > As is right now though this doesn't affect WoW.
> 
> You haven't understood my point -- it makes your WoW patch invalid
> because drivers that implement remove_interface properly cannot possibly
> implement WoW this way.

Ah sure, will respin and add some stuff for this...

  Luis