Re: [PATCH v7 08/24] wfx: add bus_sdio.c

[Kalle Valo]

Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > > +static const struct sdio_device_id wfx_sdio_ids[] = {
>> > > +       { SDIO_DEVICE(SDIO_VENDOR_ID_SILABS, SDIO_DEVICE_ID_SILABS_WF200) },
>> > > +       { },
>> > > +};
>> > > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(sdio, wfx_sdio_ids);
>> > > +
>> > > +struct sdio_driver wfx_sdio_driver = {
>> > > +       .name = "wfx-sdio",
>> > > +       .id_table = wfx_sdio_ids,
>> > > +       .probe = wfx_sdio_probe,
>> > > +       .remove = wfx_sdio_remove,
>> > > +       .drv = {
>> > > +               .owner = THIS_MODULE,
>> > > +               .of_match_table = wfx_sdio_of_match,
>> >
>> > Is there no power management? Or do you intend to add that on top?
>>
>> It seems we already have had this discussion:
>>
>>   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAPDyKFqJf=vUqpQg3suDCadKrFTkQWFTY_qp=+yDK=_Lu9gJGg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/#r
>>
>> In this thread, Kalle said:
>> > Many mac80211 drivers do so that the device is powered off during
>> > interface down (ifconfig wlan0 down), and as mac80211 does interface
>> > down automatically during suspend, suspend then works without extra
>> > handlers.
>
> Yeah, it's been a while since I looked at this, thanks for the pointer.

I want to emphasize that what I said above was just a generic comment
about mac80211 drivers and just trying to give some ideas how to solve
this, I did not check how wfx driver behaves in this regard.

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