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
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