Power management for wireless devices

A method, comprising:

• receiving, in an electronic device, a sleep message from a wireless networking adaptor coupled to the electronic device, wherein the sleep message specifies a sleep duration;
• in response to a determination that the steep duration specified in the sleep message exceeds a threshold, implementing a selective suspend operation on the electronic device, and monitoring for a wake event;
• and
• in response to a determination that the sleep duration specified in the sleep message does not exceed the threshold, flushing one or more bulk IN buffers, and monitoring for a wake event.

An article comprising logic instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium which, when executed on a processor on an electronic device, configure the processor to:

• receive, in a wireless networking driver stack, a sleep message from a wireless networking adaptor, wherein the sleep message specifies a sleep duration;
• in response to a determination that the sleep duration specified in the sleep message exceeds a threshold, implement a selective suspend operation on the electronic device, and monitor for a wake event;
• and
• in response to a determination that the sleep duration specified in the sleep message does not exceed a threshold, flush one or more bulk IN butlers, and monitoring for a wake event.