[Producdevity]

What does this change?

Disables Wi-Fi power saving while a cloud session is active and restores the previous setting afterward. Uses nl80211 directly from Zig.

Addresses #11.

How did you test it?

Tested on Miyoo Flip running SpruceOS 4.3.3. Confirmed the radio stops entering low-power mode during sessions and the original setting returns after cancellation, failure and graceful shutdown. Already-disabled power saving stays off.

All 453 tests and the ARM64 build passed. The 11 new tests also passed on the Flip.

Live gameplay remains unverified: both this build and unchanged v0.3.1 hit OfferTimeout before receiving video.

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Summary by cubic

Disables Wi-Fi power saving while a cloud session is active and restores the previous setting afterward, so the radio no longer drops into low-power mode during streams. Addresses #11.

• Talks to nl80211 directly from Zig; no external tools required.
• Only disables power saving when it was previously enabled; if it was already off, it stays off.
• Skips restoration if an interface was removed or replaced during the session.
• Adds 11 tests for rollback, kernel error mapping, and malformed replies; the full test suite and ARM64 build pass.

^{Written for commit 6713c55. Summary will update on new commits.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • On Linux, Wi-Fi power saving is temporarily disabled on connected wireless interfaces during a session. Previously enabled settings are restored when the session ends. If an interface changes during the session, its replacement is not affected.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The change adds Linux Wi-Fi power-save management through generic netlink. The guard disables enabled power save on eligible wireless interfaces when a game session starts and restores settings it changed during cleanup.

Changes

Linux Wi-Fi power-save session handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Netlink protocol and reply handling src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig	Adds nl80211 discovery, generic-netlink request construction, response polling, and reply parsing with error mapping. Tests cover message encoding and response handling.
Guard ownership and restoration src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig	Adds Guard.begin and Guard.end. The guard records successful changes and restores them only when an interface name still maps to its recorded index. Tests cover rollback, interface replacement, restoration failures, and capacity limits.
Release session integration src/app/release.zig, build.zig	Release begins the guard before starting a game session and ends it during cleanup. The host unit-test source list includes the guard tests.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Release
  participant Guard
  participant nl80211 kernel
  Release->>Guard: begin before game session
  Guard->>nl80211 kernel: query power-save state
  nl80211 kernel-->>Guard: return interface state
  Guard->>nl80211 kernel: disable enabled power save
  Release->>Guard: end during session cleanup
  Guard->>nl80211 kernel: restore recorded interface settings

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 6713c

Session startup may briefly delay loading feedback, and a crash can leave Wi-Fi power saving off until recovery. These are bounded risks rather than blockers to merging.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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[cubic-dev-ai]

3 issues found across 3 files

Confidence score: 3/5

• If rollback fails in wifi_power_save.zig, power saving can remain disabled without the interface being tracked for restoration. Keep the interface recoverable even when rollback fails.
• restore in wifi_power_save.zig can enable power saving on a replacement interface if the kernel reuses its name and ifindex. Validate a stable interface identity before restoring.
• In release.zig, a panic or SIGHUP can bypass restoration, and a later launch may not take ownership of an interface that is already disabled. Add a recovery path for interfaces left disabled after abnormal shutdown.

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig">

<violation number="1" location="src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig:60">
P2: If the rollback `set(..., true)` in this errdefer also fails, the error is swallowed and the interface is never recorded in `changed`. Power save then stays disabled with no later restore. Consider recording the interface as owned before the disabling write when the error is ambiguous, so `restore` retries it, and add a test where the rollback fails too.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig:70">
P2: `restore` can re-enable power saving on a replacement interface when the kernel reuses both the saved name and ifindex. Capture and validate a stable interface identity before restoring.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/app/release.zig">

<violation number="1" location="src/app/release.zig:495">
P2: Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.</violation>
</file>

<sub>Reply with feedback, questions, or to request a fix.

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[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: If the rollback set(..., true) in this errdefer also fails, the error is swallowed and the interface is never recorded in changed. Power save then stays disabled with no later restore. Consider recording the interface as owned before the disabling write when the error is ambiguous, so restore retries it, and add a test where the rollback fails too.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig, line 60:

<comment>If the rollback `set(..., true)` in this errdefer also fails, the error is swallowed and the interface is never recorded in `changed`. Power save then stays disabled with no later restore. Consider recording the interface as owned before the disabling write when the error is ambiguous, so `restore` retries it, and add a test where the rollback fails too.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,420 @@
+    fn disable(self: *Guard, backend: anytype, interface: Interface) !void {
+        if (self.count == max_interfaces) return error.TooManyInterfaces;
+        if (!(try backend.get(interface.index))) return;
+        errdefer backend.set(interface.index, true) catch {};
+        try backend.set(interface.index, false);
+        self.changed[self.count] = interface;
</file context>

[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At src/app/release.zig, line 495:

<comment>Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -490,6 +492,7 @@ pub const Release = struct {
 
     pub fn createSession(self: *Release) Result {
         if (self.title_id[0] == 0) return .failed;
+        self.wifi.begin();
         self.drawLoading("STARTING GAME", "ALLOCATING CLOUD SESSION", c.GO_HANDHELD_UI_ACTION_CANCEL);
         debug("Creating session ({s})\n", .{std.mem.sliceTo(&self.title_id, 0)});
</file context>

[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: restore can re-enable power saving on a replacement interface when the kernel reuses both the saved name and ifindex. Capture and validate a stable interface identity before restoring.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig, line 70:

<comment>`restore` can re-enable power saving on a replacement interface when the kernel reuses both the saved name and ifindex. Capture and validate a stable interface identity before restoring.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,420 @@
+    fn restore(self: *Guard, backend: anytype) void {
+        for (self.changed[0..self.count]) |interface| {
+            // Interface indexes can be reused after a USB radio disconnects.
+            if (backend.index(interface.slice()) != interface.index) continue;
+            backend.set(interface.index, true) catch |err| {
+                std.debug.print("Wi-Fi power-save restore failed on {s}: {s}\n", .{ interface.slice(), @errorName(err) });
</file context>

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- Line 495: In the startup flow, call drawLoading() before self.wifi.begin() so
the loading screen appears before the synchronous Wi-Fi probe; keep both calls
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Render the loading screen before the Wi-Fi probe.

Guard.begin() performs synchronous netlink requests with a 300 ms timeout. This call runs before drawLoading(), so a slow or non-responsive nl80211 path can leave the previous screen visible and delay cancellation feedback. Call drawLoading() first, then invoke self.wifi.begin(). (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Proposed fix

--- "a/src/app/release.zig"
+++ "b/src/app/release.zig"
@@ -492,8 +492,8 @@
 
     pub fn createSession(self: *Release) Result {
         if (self.title_id[0] == 0) return .failed;
-        self.wifi.begin();
         self.drawLoading("STARTING GAME", "ALLOCATING CLOUD SESSION", c.GO_HANDHELD_UI_ACTION_CANCEL);
+        self.wifi.begin();
         debug("Creating session ({s})\n", .{std.mem.sliceTo(&self.title_id, 0)});
         if (self.provider == .geforce_now) {
             const requested_width: u16 = @intCast(@min(

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @src/app/release.zig at line 495:
In the startup flow, call drawLoading() before self.wifi.begin() so the loading
screen appears before the synchronous Wi-Fi probe; keep both calls in the
existing flow.

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