On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Dmitry Shmidt wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Imagine your device is keeping connection during suspend. You got packet -
> >> wlan will wake application processor
> >> through external irq line and linux starts resume. You can not find wlan
> >> card again - it is too slow.
> >
> > What?  I'm not following you anymore.
> >
> > The Libertas firmware can be configured to filter incoming packets and
> > only assert the IRQ signal only when a specific packet comes in, just
> > like wake-on-LAN for Ethernet devices.
> 
> This is not an issue of the ability to handle packets, but to handle
> them quickly.
> This is important for VoIP for example. If you need to recognize
> device each time you are coming from suspend -
> it is not a good idea sometimes.

I simply don't see why you'd want to suspend while a VoIP session is 
active then.  Those methods you want to inhibit are meant for long term 
deep suspending, not for inter-packet power saving during a call.


Nicolas

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