On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:44:19 Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > 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? > > No, Openmoko won't have anything to do with in-kernel binary blobs. > There is binary firmware in it in flash though. Ok, it just sounded like this, because you were talking about ioctl and stuff... So if you receive a kill event, just send the command that puts the device into low power state to the device. I think that's perfectly fine. -- 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
