Ulf,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:49 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 1) As kind of stated above, did you consider a solution where the core
> > simply disables the SDIO IRQ in case it isn't enabled for system
> > wakeup? In this way all host drivers would benefit.
>
> I can give it a shot if you can give me a bunch of specific advice,
> but I only have access to a few devices doing anything with SDIO and
> they are all using Marvell or Broadcom on dw_mmc.
>
> In general I have no idea how SDIO wakeup (plumbed through the SD
> controller) would work. As per below the only way I've seen it done
> is totally out-of-band. ...and actually, I'm not sure I've actually
> ever seen even the out of band stuff truly work on a system myself.
> It's always been one of those "we should support wake on WiFi" but
> never made it all the way to implementation. In any case, if there
> are examples of people plumbing wakeup through the SD controller I'd
> need to figure out how to not break them. Just doing a solution for
> dw_mmc means I don't have to worry about this since dw_mmc definitely
> doesn't support SDIO wakeup.
>
> Maybe one way to get a more generic solution is if you had an idea for
> a patch that would work for many host controllers then you could post
> it and I could test to confirm that it's happy on dw_mmc? ...similar
> to when you switched dw_mmc away from the old kthread-based SDIO
> stuff?
Unless you have time to help dig into all the possibilities here to
help understand how this should behave across all the different host
controllers / wakeup setups, maybe we could just land ${SUBJECT} patch
for now and when there is more clarity we can revisit?
Thanks!
-Doug
