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From: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1271: how to use without runtime pm
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:08:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101231010847.79a55fda@lair> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim55FJ_cBE1M7HmhVagfphntZZBLSs9NjTmK_F+@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:22:05 +0200
Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Sergey Matyukevich
> <geomatsi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So the question is: what is the proper use of wl1271 driver in the
> > case when  wl1271 card is powered all the time ?
> 
> The wl1271 driver assumes it can control the power of the card.
> 
> If your card's power is always on, you will not be able to toggle the
> interface down and up (as you have experienced).
> 
> It might be possible to change the driver around this "limitation",
> but I'm not sure anyone has ever really tried.

A simple solution which comes to mind would be to perform some kind of
'complete soft reset procedure' for wl1271 card in the beginning of the
function 'wl1271_op_add_interface'. But I guess such a feature is not
available for this card. Qtherwise it would be already implemented by
Luciano and his colleagues.

Thanks, 
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-30 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-29 21:07 wl1271: how to use without runtime pm Sergey Matyukevich
2010-12-29 21:22 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-30 22:08   ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2010-12-31  8:00     ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-15  9:57       ` Santosh Shukla

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