Re: [PATCH 2/3] iwlwifi: remove STATUS_ALIVE checking from rf_kill

[Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 27. M=C3=A4rz 2009 schrieb reinette chatre:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:58 -0700, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > Assume the following situation:
> >=20
> > You only have one killswitch for both, wireless and bluetooth. The =
wireless
> > interface is down because it is unused and the user wants to use bl=
uetooth
> > and enables it via the killswitch which also means that wireless ge=
ts
> > unkilled. Now restarting the adapter needs more power then keeping =
the
> > adapter down. In short: if the interface is down the user (space) d=
oes not
> > want to use the interface and probably wants to save power as well.
>=20
> Your measurements are very fine grained :) Will this be measureable?

Heh, you know the internals of the devive ;) but I guess waking up the
adapter (and thus starting the firmware) even if the interface is unuse=
d
will surely need more power than not doing so.

Helmut
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