On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:56:41PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > Or am I misstating that long thread? David, your thoughts? > > My recollection of that thread was that *NOBODY* claimed that a > replacement of that (broken-by-design) mechanism would ever exist. > > However, there was some interesting discussion of just how to fix > the wireless adapters. There appeared to be consensus that the > right solution involved "ifdown wlan0" (or whatever) ought to power > down that adapter, in the way Matthew wanted. > > I thought the resolution was that fixing a few of those drivers > should solve the problem Matthew needed resolved, and that in > the meanwhile "rmmod drivername" should suffice. There also seemed > to be agreement that power management for wireless devices needed > more work; there might need to be a state between "down/off" and > "configured and able to talk IP".
Ok, that sounds like what I thought the thread resolved too. Andrew, please drop this patch from your queue, and I'll make sure the stable tree doesn't get it either. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
