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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 10:21:01 -0700
From: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@...il.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain
hardware revision
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
> The issue only appeared for some community members using Surface devices,
> happening on the Surface Book 2 of one person, but not on the Surface Book
> 2 of another person. When investigating we were poking around in the dark
> for a long time and almost gave up until we found that those two devices
> had different hardware revisions of the same wifi card installed (ChipRev
> 20 vs 21).
>
> So it seems pretty clear that with revision 21 they fixed some hardware
> bug that causes those spurious wakeups.
Seems reasonable, thanks for the thorough handling!
> FWIW, obviously a proper workaround for this would have to be implemented
> in the firmware.
Yeah, but you only get those if you're a paying customer apparently :(
I wonder if the original OEM got firmware fixes, but because they don't
use Linux, nobody bothered to roll those into the linux-firmware repo.
Brian
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