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
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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 [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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