mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain hardware revision
The 88W8897 PCIe+USB card in the hardware revision 20 apparently has a hardware issue where the card wakes up from deep sleep randomly and very often, somewhat depending on the card activity, maybe the hardware has a floating wakeup pin or something. This was found by comparing two MS Surface Book 2 devices, where one devices wifi card experienced spurious wakeups, while the other one didn't. Those continuous wakeups prevent the card from entering host sleep when the computer suspends. And because the host won't answer to events from the card anymore while it's suspended, the firmwares internal power saving state machine seems to get confused and the card can't sleep anymore at all after that. Since we can't work around that hardware bug in the firmware, let's get the hardware revision string from the firmware and match it with known bad revisions. Then disable auto deep sleep for those revisions, which makes sure we no longer get those spurious wakeups. Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@v0yd.nl> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211103201800.13531-3-verdre@v0yd.nl
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