On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:18 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > Tomas pointed my assertion "iwlwifi cannot get MAC address without > firmware being loaded first" is not true. Here is a updated patch to > get iwlwifi device MAC address from EEPROM before firmware being > loaded. With this function, I don't need the mac80211 change for "set > interface MAC address after driver's start() is called". Nice :) > BTW, I also pci_enable_device() and pci_disable_device() in the > driver's start() and stop() handler. Hope it will make the device > consume less power when the interface is not up. You should probably double-check this with the hardware guys. With Broadcom hardware we've seen it consume *more* power if we don't at least enable the device and turn off things on the device itself. johannes
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