[Gta04-owner] Updates for 3.2-gta04 kernel.

[NeilBrown]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:15:01 +0100 Lukas Märdian
<lukasmaerdian at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 02.03.2012 22:03, NeilBrown wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:16 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:30:03 +0000 Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.homelinux.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Any thoughts?  It's not urgent; I can always revert to the previous
> >>>> kernel for the time being.
> >>>
> >>> If you find time for a bit of experimenting, it might be useful to know:
> >>
> >> Actually, don't bother.  I had a bit of a look my self and found something
> >> very silly that almost certainly explains the problem.
> >> I want to do a bit more exploring and testing before I push out a fix, so
> >> just revert to the previous kernel for now.
> > 
> > OK, you can try again.
> > 
> > I've just pushed out a new 3.2-gta04 with a few fixes.
> > 
> >   git://neil.brown.name/gta04 3.2-gta04
> > 
> > The USB networking should work the same as before - I found what I broke and
> > fixed it.
> > 
> > I have a recurring problem where the GTA04 won't stay asleep.  It wakes
> > immediately after suspending with no real indication why.  I spent a good
> > deal of time trying to figure out why to little avail.  I've added a couple
> > of patches which seemed to make a difference once, but not always.
> > 
> 
> I had/have the same problem on SHR and learned today that the GPS chip
> will wake the phone from suspend if it is powered on (which is somehow
> randomly choosen at boot time). So you could check if it's the GPS chip
> for you as well.

Looks like we have a winner!!

I added some code to my GUI so I can easily check the status of the GPS, and
turn it on and off.  Every time since then that sleep hasn't worked, the GPS
has been on.  Turning it off fixed it.

Thanks.

This means I really need to find a good way to make this all automatic -
preferably in the kernel.  There must be a way ... 

NeilBrown
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