Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

Kalle Valo
2008-12-11T13:29:54Z

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:32:37 Julian Calaby wrote:
>
>> What strikes me, watching this from the outside - is that rfkill and
>> power saving seem to be doing essentially the same thing: temporarily
>> powering down the radio / card.
>
> I think it's essentially a different thing. rfkill means -> turn off
> the radio; no matter what. PS means -> turn off the radio for
> whatever amount of microseconds and periodically wake up to see
> what's up. PS-core also takes place in the firmware of the device,
> where rfkill is a much higher layer thing.

I agree, they shouldn't be intermixed at all.

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Kalle Valo