Re: [PATCH] HID: intel_ish-hid: HBM: Use connected standby state bit during suspend/resume

[Srinivas Pandruvada]

On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 11:47 +0800, Ye, Xiang wrote:
> Hi Srinivas, Jiri
> 
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 08:00:41AM -0800, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 11:26 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Ye Xiang wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ISH firmware uses connected standby state bit
> > > > (CONNECTED_STANDBY_STATE_BIT bit 1)
> > > > to notify current power state to sensors instead of suspend
> > > > state
> > > > bit (bit 0).
> > > > So send both SUSPEND_STATE_BIT and CONNECTED_STANDBY_STATE_BIT
> > > > to
> > > > firmware
> > > > to be compatible with the previous version.
> > > 
> > > Could you please make the changelog more verbose -- namely what 
> > > user-visible issue this is fixing?
> > Xiang,
> > 
> > I think this change is for related to Elkhart Lake for support of
> > connected standby (keep listening for sensor events during Linux
> > suspend for some sensors). In this way some sensor can wake up the
> > system.
> This change is for all ISH platform. Currently, ISH firmware use
> both SUSPEND_STATE_BIT and CONNECTED_STANDBY_STATE_BIT to identify
> system state. It is related to system wake up by ISH and it enable
> each
> sensor in ISH to be notified the current system state, when system
> state
> change.
What will sensors do with this additional information?
I think the individual sensors in ISH can decide whether to power OFF
or ON based on this information to save power during system suspend to
idle.

Thanks,
Srinivas

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> Thanks
> Ye Xiang
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