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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2010-12-07 23:13:23 (GMT)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-12-08 20:38:46 (GMT)
commit69f4aab1157d2a386e7ea4de77cc253629d1b4f2 (patch)
treefe8ff23504e3e40ed1460cac9c8af54abcb16ab9 /drivers/net
parentff9f0b639f33c92a89b0799263ab625444be6ee1 (diff)
downloadlinux-69f4aab1157d2a386e7ea4de77cc253629d1b4f2.tar.xz
ath9k_hw: warn if we cannot change the power to the chip
Suspend requires the device to be in fullsleep otherwise upon resume the device becomes unresponsive. We need to ensure that when we want the device to go to sleep it yields to the request, otherwise we'll have a useless devices upon resume. Warn when changing the power fails as we need to look into these issues. Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
index 9f4398c..516227f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
@@ -1608,6 +1608,13 @@ bool ath9k_hw_setpower(struct ath_hw *ah, enum ath9k_power_mode mode)
}
ah->power_mode = mode;
+ /*
+ * XXX: If this warning never comes up after a while then
+ * simply keep the ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE() but make
+ * ath9k_hw_setpower() return type void.
+ */
+ ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE(!status);
+
return status;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ath9k_hw_setpower);