From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:25:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061222012554.GA28632@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612211827.kBLIRtqC025054@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:27:55PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:06:51 EST, Dan Williams said:
> > It's also complicated because some switches are supposed to rfkill both
> > an 802.11 module _and_ a bluetooth module at the same time, or I guess
> > some laptops may even have one rfkill switch for each wireless device.
>
> On my Dell D820, it's bios-selectable if the switch is enabled, or if
> it controls just the 802.11 card, or 802.11 and bluetooth, or just bluetooth,
> or 802.11 and mobile broadband, or ...
>
> This way lies madness. :)
>
> (Oddest part - said bios config screen offers the choices for bluetooth
> and mobile broadband even though the hardware config doesn't include it. ;)
In this case changing the UI based on presence (and thus the printed
docs etc.) winds up being difficult. Think of it as an embedded
advertisement - you too could have bluetooth and mobile broadband... :-)
-Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
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2006-12-20 12:53 ` Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 13:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 14:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 15:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 22:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 23:37 ` Rick Jones
2006-12-19 23:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 0:11 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-20 0:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 11:18 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-21 1:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 2:05 ` Michael Wu
2006-12-21 2:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 2:38 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 2:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:08 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 3:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:37 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:29 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:14 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 13:14 ` jamal
2006-12-21 2:29 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 2:10 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-12-21 8:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-22 1:03 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-23 8:54 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-20 15:27 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-20 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 16:40 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-20 17:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 20:40 ` Benny Amorsen
2006-12-20 21:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 21:15 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-12-20 14:00 ` Jiri Benc
2006-12-20 18:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 1:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 1:57 ` Michael Wu
2006-12-21 2:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:02 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:06 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:32 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 13:19 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-12-21 17:16 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 18:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-22 1:25 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-12-20 16:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-21 5:25 David Brownell
2006-12-21 7:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 8:11 ` David Brownell
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