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mwifiex: Add quirk resetting the PCI bridge on MS Surface devices
The most recent firmware of the 88W8897 card reports a hardcoded LTR value to the system during initialization, probably as an (unsuccessful) attempt of the developers to fix firmware crashes. This LTR value prevents most of the Microsoft Surface devices from entering deep powersaving states (either platform C-State 10 or S0ix state), because the exit latency of that state would be higher than what the card can tolerate. Turns out the card works just the same (including the firmware crashes) no matter if that hardcoded LTR value is reported or not, so it's kind of useless and only prevents us from saving power. To get rid of those hardcoded LTR reports, it's possible to reset the PCI bridge device after initializing the cards firmware. I'm not exactly sure why that works, maybe the power management subsystem of the PCH resets its stored LTR values when doing a function level reset of the bridge device. Doing the reset once after starting the wifi firmware works very well, probably because the firmware only reports that LTR value a single time during firmware startup.
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