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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:51:39 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down > Yeah, I guess that's a problem. From a user perspective, the > functionality is only really useful if the latency is very small. I > think where possible we'd want to power down the chip while keeping the > phy up, but it would be nice to know how much power that would actually > cost us. I'm no expert but afaik the PHY is the power hungry part, the rest is peanuts. So if we can get the PHY to sleep most of the time that would be great. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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