On Thursday 21 December 2006 17:01, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:08:58PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > + radio_hw_enable = bcm43xx_is_hw_radio_enabled(bcm);
> > + if (unlikely(bcm->radio_hw_enable != radio_hw_enable)) {
> > + bcm->radio_hw_enable = radio_hw_enable;
> > + printk(KERN_INFO PFX "Radio hardware status changed to %s\n",
> > + (radio_hw_enable == 0) ? "disabled" : "enabled");
>
> Based on discussion on netdev, it seems that the desired behaviour when
> the radio is disabled is that the interface should be downed. This
> probably also means that it shouldn't be possible to bring the interface
> up if the radio is disabled.
Sure, but I don't think we want to implement this into bcm43xx-softmac,
as it just adds instability over very minor gain.
The only gain is reduced power consumption and not having a non-workable
device in ifconfig.
--
Greetings Michael.
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