On Saturday 02 August 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Hi Johannes! > > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 15:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Currently, rfkill would stand in the way of properly supporting wireless > > > devices that are capable of waking the system up from sleep or hibernation > > > when they receive a special wireless message. > > > > > > Since rfkill attempts to soft-block any transmitters during class suspend, > > > > why does it interfere with suspend anyway? > > The class makes sure that all transmitters are blocked on suspend. You'd > have to ask Ivo for the reason, but AFAIK, it is for both safety and to help > conserve power. I think that handler was added by Dmitry, but I see no real reason for issuing the BLOCK event during suspend. However the handlers should be used to prevent state changes to drivers after they have been suspended. Ivo -- 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
