Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down
- From: Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:05:27 -0500
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 20:12, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Veering off at something of a tangent - how much of this should be trueSoftmac isn't the only wireless code that likes to be configured after going
for wireless devices? Softmac seems to be unhappy about setting the
essid unless the card is up, which breaks various assumptions...
up first. Configuring after the card goes up has generally been more
reliable, though that should not be necessary and is a bug IMHO.
Beyond that, I think your descriptions of up and down states make senseIn order to scan, we need to have the radio on and we need to be able to send
for userspace. As Arjan suggests, there's then the intermediate state of
"disable as much as possible while still providing scanning and link
detection".
and receive. What are you gonna turn off?
-Michael Wu
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