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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf•ucam.org>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk•net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl•org>,
	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 02:18:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061221021832.GA723@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612202105.31093.flamingice@sourmilk.net>

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:05:27PM -0500, Michael Wu wrote:

> Softmac isn't the only wireless code that likes to be configured after going 
> up first. Configuring after the card goes up has generally been more 
> reliable, though that should not be necessary and is a bug IMHO. 

Ok, that's nice to know. 

> In order to scan, we need to have the radio on and we need to be able to send 
> and receive. What are you gonna turn off?

The obvious route would be to power the card down, but come back up 
every two minutes to perform a scan, or if userspace explicitly requests 
one. Would this cause problems in some cases?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf•ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <200612191959.43019.david-b@pacbell.net>
     [not found]   ` <20061220042648.GA19814@srcf.ucam.org>
     [not found]     ` <200612192114.49920.david-b@pacbell.net>
     [not found]       ` <20061220053417.GA29877@suse.de>
     [not found]         ` <20061220055209.GA20483@srcf.ucam.org>
     [not found]           ` <1166601025.3365.1345.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
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 [this message]
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
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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