From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:19:07 -0500 Message-ID: <45AEAEEB.6050603@pobox.com> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <20070117141103.0e468bf4@griffin.suse.cz> <1169046072.2750.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169047134.9175.49.camel@johannes.berg> <1169055788.2550.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169056847.2550.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070117230945.GB9387@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Williams , Johannes Berg , Jiri Benc , Marcelo Tosatti , netdev , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:39374 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbXAQXT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:19:29 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20070117230945.GB9387@infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:00:47PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: >> Furthermore, I might add that the entire reason this part was chosen for >> OLPC was because it _is_ fullmac. >> >> To drive down power consumption, the OLPC puts the host CPU to sleep but >> keeps the 8388 powered on. That consumes around 400mW max. But it >> allows the 8388 to continue routing other laptops' packets over the mesh >> *while the host CPU is asleep*. > > We're not going to put a lot of junk into the kernel just because the OLPC > folks decide to do odd powermanagment schemes. We're not going to ignore useful power management schemes just because they don't fit neatly into a pre-existing category. I think the request to determine how all this maps into MLME is fair, though. Jeff