On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:15:14PM -0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Alternatively, we could just power down the whole WLAN module. That is > easily done and very reliable. However, MAC state (ESSID, keys, and a > host of other settings) is obliterated if we do this. A watchful user > space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) could then restore the status quo ante. Some platform rfkill methods will perform a logical PCI hotplug of the device, without any means of notifying the driver beforehand. Since this will destroy the driver structure, I think we really need to leave state restoration up to userspace. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
