[PATCH 3/3] omap: board-sdp4430: declare support for MMC_PM_KEEP_POWER
Luciano Coelho
coelho at ti.com
Mon Nov 28 05:18:10 EST 2011
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:12 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Luciano Coelho <coelho at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:26 +0200, Igor Grinberg wrote:
> >> On 11/28/11 11:08, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >> > I may do it for panda later on, if I get the time to test it. For
> >> > beagle, it doesn't really apply, because the wl12xx support is
> >> > out-of-tree, unfortunately. :(
> >>
> >> If I understood correctly, you want to change all the
> >> board files supporting the wl12xx wifi chip to have this
> >> capability set, right?
> >> Isn't this immediately affects the power consumption in
> >> sleep state?
> >> Shouldn't this be runtime controllable?
> >> I bet there are many applications that do not care about WoW,
> >> but do care about the power consumption.
> >> How does this change affect them?
> >
> > Good point, I don't know. :) Probably Eliad has the answer for that.
> >
> see the discussion regarding patch [2/3] - we only declare here
> support for this capability, but it's disabled by default.
Great, thanks! :) I now also understand the difference between the
pm_flags and pm_caps. :)
So, back to where we started, we should add the capability to all boards
that define the MMC capabilities of the wl12xx chip. No matter who will
do it. :)
--
Cheers,
Luca.
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