Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:12:51PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

Entirely correct. If the card is DOWN, the radio should be off (both TX
& RX) and it should be in max power save mode. If userspace expects to
be able to get the card to do _anything_ when it's down, that's just
110% wrong. You can't get link events for many wired cards when they
are down, so I fail to see where userspace could expect to do anything
with a wireless card when it's down too.

Because it works on the common hardware? If there's documentation about
what userspace can legitimately expect, then I'm happy to defer to that.
But in the absence of any indication as to what functionality users can
depend on, deciding that existing functionality is a bug is, well,
impolite.

Also, how does rfkill fit into this? rfkill implies killing TX, but do
we have the granularity to still receive while the transmit paths are
powered down?

Is rfkill not just primarily an interface for us getting events when the
radio changes state? Every time I read up on it I get a little more
confused - some time I really need to make sense of it...

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