mac80211: allow driver to impose WoWLAN restrictions
If the driver can't support WoWLAN in the current
state, this patch allows it to return 1 from the
suspend callback to do the normal deconfiguration
instead of using suspend/resume calls. Note that
if it does this, resume won't be called.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index c9def42..2858b4d02 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1628,6 +1628,10 @@
* ask the device to suspend. This is only invoked when WoWLAN is
* configured, otherwise the device is deconfigured completely and
* reconfigured at resume time.
+ * The driver may also impose special conditions under which it
+ * wants to use the "normal" suspend (deconfigure), say if it only
+ * supports WoWLAN when the device is associated. In this case, it
+ * must return 1 from this function.
*
* @resume: If WoWLAN was configured, this indicates that mac80211 is
* now resuming its operation, after this the device must be fully
