On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:29 +0200, Fabien Crespel wrote: > Dan Williams wrote : > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 19:06 +0200, Fabien Crespel wrote: > > > >> Indeed, I think it would be better to let the driver choose the default state > >> (initialization) instead of forcing it when registering. This would allow drivers > >> to restore the device state after a reboot or shutdown (provided the firmware > >> stores it, which is the case at least on my ASUS F3JC laptop). > >> > > > > Do you mean your laptop BIOS stores the value in nvram somewhere? What > > specific driver reads that value back out? > > > > Dan > > > Yes, the laptop BIOS stores the value. Reading it back is done the same > way as reading the WLAN/BT status later (through an ACPI method), so the > driver only has to read and write the status at initialization to > restore the device status & LEDs (because the reported status doesn't > reflect the hardware status at boot time). Yeah, but what driver -is- that? asus-laptop or something? Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
