Re: Wi-Fi Disconnection on Suspend for no wowlan triggers

[Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>]

On 4/5/2018 9:59 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 09:41 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>
>> So for a full-mac device or a mac80211 device with certain offloads
>> (that we may already have, eg. 4way-hs offloads) you could keep up the
>> connection for a while, but if it is receiving data it probably wants to
>> wake-up the host at some point. So if such a device has means to do a
>> host wake-up you could keep the connection upon suspend. You could
>> consider such behavior a wowlan trigger as well and extend that.
>
> There's the "any" trigger that might be appropriate for that, or a
> "disconnect" trigger.
>
> But I'm basically thinking the same as Steve - if you're never going to
> wake up the host, there's not really much point in keeping the
> connection, and if you only suspend briefly like e.g. on Android then
> you probably *do* want to wake up the host for pretty much everything
> that's going on (hence the "any" trigger).

Agree, which is why I suggested to look at wowlan triggers. If we 
already have an appropriate "any" trigger even better ;-)

Regards,
Arend