[PATCH] staging: brcm80211: fix suspend/resume issue in brcmsmac

[Henry Ptasinski]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:08:29AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:59:27PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > PCI PM suspend callback took down the interface and resume brought
> > it back up. In the mac80211 context this is done in subsequent calls.
> > Rework implementation so that suspend only stores config, and sets
> > PCI power state. The resume return to full power state (D0), restores
> > the config, and brings hardware back up. Full bringup is done by
> > subsequent mac80211 calls.
> 
> Ah, does this solve the suspend/resume bug that a number of people have
> reported for the driver since the .36 release?  If so, should it go into
> the kernel now and be backported to older releases?


Yes, this should solve the suspend/resume bug that people have reported. 
(It doesn't solve the rfkill issues; Arend is working on a separate fix for
that.)

It should get backported, but it would be nice to get some confirmation from
people that it fixes the issues they're seeing first.

- Henry