From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
hmh@hmh.eng.br
Subject: Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:28:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6ymkfi1.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812110227.26909.mb@bu3sch.de> (ext Michael Buesch's message of "Thu\, 11 Dec 2008 02\:27\:25 +0100")
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.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 15:09 [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code Matthew Garrett
2008-12-10 15:29 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 16:15 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-12-10 16:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-12-10 17:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 17:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 17:28 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 21:33 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-10 21:42 ` Michael Buesch
2008-12-10 17:31 ` Michael Buesch
2008-12-10 17:37 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 17:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-10 18:04 ` Michael Buesch
2008-12-10 18:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 18:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-10 18:29 ` Dan Williams
2008-12-10 18:33 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 18:59 ` Dan Williams
2008-12-10 20:07 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-29 18:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 0:32 ` Julian Calaby
2008-12-11 1:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-12-11 13:28 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-12-10 15:48 ` Michael Buesch
2008-12-10 16:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-11 16:55 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-12 4:28 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-17 15:48 ` John W. Linville
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