[PATCH] wcn36xx: Implement Idle Mode Power Save

[Kalle Valo]

Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org> wrote:

> Idle Mode Power Save (IMPS) is a power saving mechanism which when called
> by wcn36xx will cause the radio hardware to enter power collapse.
> 
> This particular call maps nicely to a simple conjunction/disjunction around
> IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE and IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE.
> 
> Here we enter idle when we are not associated with an AP. The kernel will
> incrementally toggle idle on/off in the process of trying to establish a
> connection, thus saving power until we are connected to the AP again, at
> which point we give way to BMPS if power_save is on.
> 
> We've validated that with IMPS an apq8039 device which has the wcn36xx
> module loaded but, has not authenticated with an AP will get to VMIN on
> suspend and will not without IMPS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Benjamin Li <benl at squareup.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

0e159d2c0834 wcn36xx: Implement Idle Mode Power Save

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