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Re: [PATCH 2/2] brcmfmac: support wake on ping packet

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On 01/04/2019 8:17, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 1/3/2019 8:46 AM, Chi-Hsien Lin wrote:
>> From: Lo-Hsiang Lo <double.lo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Set up wiphy->wowlan_config and a dummy wowlan filter so brcmfmac can
>> remain connected during suspend. Enable an unicast packet filter during
>> suspend so ping packets can wake up the system.
> 
> This basically enables a default wowlan configuration, but why do we 
> want this in the driver. The struct wiphy::wowlan_config member is 
> primarily managed by cfg80211 (see nl80211_set_wowlan()) upon user-space 
> request.
> 
> If user-space reconfigures with no wowlan triggers the default 
> configuration is freed, but as we have no .set_wakeup() callback the 
> configuration in firmware remains unchanged so things are out of sync. 
> So I would discourage this default approach and just let user-space deal 
> with wowlan configuration.

Arend,

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Let's drop this 2/2 patch. I'll submit V2 
for 1/2 to fix the typos James pointed out.

Chi-hsien Lin

> 
> Regards,
> Arend
> .
> 




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