Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: fix suspend/resume issue in brcmsmac

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:44:39AM -0800, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:08:29AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:59:27PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > > PCI PM suspend callback took down the interface and resume brought
> > > it back up. In the mac80211 context this is done in subsequent calls.
> > > Rework implementation so that suspend only stores config, and sets
> > > PCI power state. The resume return to full power state (D0), restores
> > > the config, and brings hardware back up. Full bringup is done by
> > > subsequent mac80211 calls.
> > 
> > Ah, does this solve the suspend/resume bug that a number of people have
> > reported for the driver since the .36 release?  If so, should it go into
> > the kernel now and be backported to older releases?
> 
> 
> Yes, this should solve the suspend/resume bug that people have reported. 
> (It doesn't solve the rfkill issues; Arend is working on a separate fix for
> that.)
> 
> It should get backported, but it would be nice to get some confirmation from
> people that it fixes the issues they're seeing first.

Ok, that would be good to have :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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