On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:28:51AM -0800, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > ath9k supports its own set of virtual wiphys, and it uses
> > the mac80211 idle notifications to know when a device needs
> > to be idle or not. We recently changed ath9k to force idle
> > on driver stop() and on resume but forgot to take into account
> > ath9k's own virtual wiphy idle states. These are used internally
> > by ath9k to check if the device's radio should be powered down
> > on each idle call. Without this change its possible that the
> > device could have been forced off but the virtual wiphy idle
> > was left on.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > I'm not yet sure if this actually fixes an issue but it
> > certainly is a proper ammendment to the other idle fix
> > submitted for stable for suspend/resume.
>
> Can you refresh me on which patch that is?
Sure, its:
ath9k: fix assumptions for idle calls on suspend/resume
Luis
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