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From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To: "Jonas Dreßler" <verdre@v0yd.nl>
Cc: "Amitkumar Karwar" <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
	"Ganapathi Bhat" <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
	"Xinming Hu" <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Tsuchiya Yuto" <kitakar@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Maximilian Luz" <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
	"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain hardware revision
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 10:21:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYLE/QFd+qeSlwU9@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc7432f4-824a-abe2-e304-5ba019ac8c89@v0yd.nl>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
> The issue only appeared for some community members using Surface devices,
> happening on the Surface Book 2 of one person, but not on the Surface Book
> 2 of another person. When investigating we were poking around in the dark
> for a long time and almost gave up until we found that those two devices
> had different hardware revisions of the same wifi card installed (ChipRev
> 20 vs 21).
> 
> So it seems pretty clear that with revision 21 they fixed some hardware
> bug that causes those spurious wakeups.

Seems reasonable, thanks for the thorough handling!

> FWIW, obviously a proper workaround for this would have to be implemented
> in the firmware.

Yeah, but you only get those if you're a paying customer apparently :(

I wonder if the original OEM got firmware fixes, but because they don't
use Linux, nobody bothered to roll those into the linux-firmware repo.

Brian

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-03 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28  7:37 [PATCH] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain hardware revision Jonas Dreßler
2021-10-28  8:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-10-28 12:14 ` Denis Kirjanov
2021-10-28 21:27 ` Brian Norris
2021-11-03 12:25   ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-11-03 12:29     ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-11-03 13:37     ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-11-03 14:15       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-03 17:21     ` Brian Norris [this message]

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