On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:44:01PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > which userspace is using this btw? > > > > Ubuntu uses it to disable wireless hardware under certain circumstances. > > I believe that Suse's powernowd uses it to power down wired ethernet > > hardware when it's not in use.
Powersaved had implemented this, but it was always declared an experimental feature and AFAIK is gone since quite some time. > I flamed seife for this. It was always broken for 20%-or-so of > hardware. It is _not_ simple to fix. It was an experimental feature in the words sense: For experimentation. I never accepted any bugreports for that but told the reporters to go away :-) -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." - 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/
