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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:19:33 -0800 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, akpm@...l.org Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:56:41PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > Or am I misstating that long thread? David, your thoughts? > > My recollection of that thread was that *NOBODY* claimed that a > replacement of that (broken-by-design) mechanism would ever exist. > > However, there was some interesting discussion of just how to fix > the wireless adapters. There appeared to be consensus that the > right solution involved "ifdown wlan0" (or whatever) ought to power > down that adapter, in the way Matthew wanted. > > I thought the resolution was that fixing a few of those drivers > should solve the problem Matthew needed resolved, and that in > the meanwhile "rmmod drivername" should suffice. There also seemed > to be agreement that power management for wireless devices needed > more work; there might need to be a state between "down/off" and > "configured and able to talk IP". Ok, that sounds like what I thought the thread resolved too. Andrew, please drop this patch from your queue, and I'll make sure the stable tree doesn't get it either. thanks, greg k-h - 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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