On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:28:43 Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > In Openmoko, we're wondering whether we should make the Atheros AR6k > > Let me put that simpler for you Werner :-) > > "In Openmoko" we already use the nice rfkill interface to turn our USB > bluetooth device on and off... it certainly stops RF emissions from it. > > Now we plan to do the same for our AR6001 implementation... it has no > switched power to the module, it is "always on". It seems the only way > to get it to a low power state is an IOCTL that currently needs to be > set by a userspace app. > > In the same manner as we switch bluetooth, I have asked Werner to write > a patch that will use rfkill to issue the IOCTL to switch the AR6001 > into low power / no RF mode. > > Does that raise any eyebrows? Is the wireless kernel driver a binary blob? -- Greetings, Michael. -- 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
