Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:32:37 Julian Calaby wrote: > >> What strikes me, watching this from the outside - is that rfkill and >> power saving seem to be doing essentially the same thing: temporarily >> powering down the radio / card. > > I think it's essentially a different thing. rfkill means -> turn off > the radio; no matter what. PS means -> turn off the radio for > whatever amount of microseconds and periodically wake up to see > what's up. PS-core also takes place in the firmware of the device, > where rfkill is a much higher layer thing. I agree, they shouldn't be intermixed at all. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
