On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:08:49PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060824 20:51]: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > > > Interesting. I'm glad we now know what was going on. > > > > > > In theory, I would think the device driver should have responsibility > > > for enabling the power on devices; in Linux has knowledge of the bus > > > topology. > > > > Not really - in this case its responsability of the BIOS to power up the > > device. > > > > Richard, Ronald, please fixup LinuxBIOS to enable the WLAN_EC pin. > > I agree, to some extent. > > But: Could the driver save power by disabling the pin? In this case > it might become interesting to have the driver know about it.
Might be useful... The firmware already supports deep sleep mode which allegedly consumes very little power, though. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
