Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:32:37 Julian Calaby wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:29, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> >> The final change is that I removed the code for changing the wireless
> >> state in response to the txpower configuration in mac80211. Right now, I
> >> can't see any way for this to work correctly - if the user disables the
> >> radio via rfkill, mac80211 doesn't flag the radio as disabled. As a
> >> result, the next time the configuration callback is called, b43
> >> reenables the radio again, even though the user has explicitly disabled
> >> it. I don't think any of the other drivers handle this case, so I'm not
> >> really sure what the best way to handle this in future is. The current
> >> situation certainly seems broken.
> >
> > We're going to have to integrate rfkill with mac80211, but nobody cares.
> 
> 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.

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Greetings, Michael.