[PATCH 1/2] UBUNTU: Redpine: enable power save by default for coex mode

Amitkumar Karwar amitkarwar at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 11:35:09 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Shrirang Bagul
<shrirang.bagul at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 17:54 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> On 27.07.2017 17:22, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
>> > From: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706991
>> >
>> > When Coex mode is enabled, enabling power save will improve
>> > radio sharing. Hence PS on by default flag is set.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs at gmail.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <amit.karwar at redpinesignals.com>
>> > ---
>>
>> Which release should those patches go into (guessing Xenial but nothing does say
>> this)?
>> Since this is not part of upstream Linux it would be "UBUNTU: SAUCE".
>> The bug report should contain some SRU (stable release update) justification
>>
>> --- TEMPLATE ---
>> == SRU Justification ==
>>
>> Impact:
>>
>> Fix:
>>
>> Testing:
>> --- END --
>>
>> which is supposed to help (non-kernel-team) members of the sru team to get a
>> feeling about the risk associated with some fixes.
>>
>> For sending to the mailing list it would be good to use a cover email
>>
>> Subject: [Xenial SRU] <summary>
>>
>> with some more technical background (summarized) about the patches.
>>
>> -Stefan
> For the Redpine driver in Xenial - ubuntu/rsi, please try and follow this subject
> line template:
>
> Subject: [Xenial SRU][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Redpine: <summary>
> (for reference: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2017-June/084584.html)
>
> Also helps to have the SRU justification on the launchpad bug, in case some one goes
> looking for it.
> Please  re-send the patch-set with suggested changes. I'll NAK this version for now.

Thanks for explaining the procedure.
I have just resent the patches with modified subject line and updated
bug with SRU justification.
I will follow the same for further patches.

Regards,
Amitkumar Karwar

>
> -Shrirang
>> >  ubuntu/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c | 3 +++
>> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/ubuntu/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c b/ubuntu/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c
>> > index 003f49d..8a4100a 100644
>> > --- a/ubuntu/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c
>> > +++ b/ubuntu/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c
>> > @@ -2835,6 +2835,9 @@ int rsi_mac80211_attach(struct rsi_common *common)
>> >  //                     NL80211_FEATURE_P2P_GO_OPPPS);
>> >  #endif
>> >
>> > +   if (common->coex_mode > 1)
>> > +           wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_PS_ON_BY_DEFAULT;
>> > +
>> >     status = ieee80211_register_hw(hw);
>> >     if (status) {
>> >             ven_rsi_dbg(ERR_ZONE, "Failed to register to mac80211\n");
>> >
>>
>>




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