[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "iwl4965: set power mode early" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Aug 23 09:37:36 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iwl4965: set power mode early

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c6beb63a0f0fc5bcf40b6fcee3333bd1be32ff0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:07:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] iwl4965: set power mode early

commit eca396d7a5bdcc1fd67b1b12f737c213ac78a6f4 upstream.

If device was put into a sleep and system was restarted or module
reloaded, we have to wake device up before sending other commands.
Otherwise it will fail to start with Microcode error.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
index ff5d689..b7528ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
@@ -5285,6 +5285,9 @@ il4965_alive_start(struct il_priv *il)

 	il->active_rate = RATES_MASK;

+	il_power_update_mode(il, true);
+	D_INFO("Updated power mode\n");
+
 	if (il_is_associated(il)) {
 		struct il_rxon_cmd *active_rxon =
 		    (struct il_rxon_cmd *)&il->active;
@@ -5315,9 +5318,6 @@ il4965_alive_start(struct il_priv *il)
 	D_INFO("ALIVE processing complete.\n");
 	wake_up(&il->wait_command_queue);

-	il_power_update_mode(il, true);
-	D_INFO("Updated power mode\n");
-
 	return;

 restart:
--
1.8.3.2





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