Hi, Am Freitag, 27. März 2009 schrieb reinette chatre: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:58 -0700, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > Assume the following situation: > > > > You only have one killswitch for both, wireless and bluetooth. The wireless > > interface is down because it is unused and the user wants to use bluetooth > > and enables it via the killswitch which also means that wireless gets > > unkilled. Now restarting the adapter needs more power then keeping the > > adapter down. In short: if the interface is down the user (space) does not > > want to use the interface and probably wants to save power as well. > > Your measurements are very fine grained :) Will this be measureable? Heh, you know the internals of the devive ;) but I guess waking up the adapter (and thus starting the firmware) even if the interface is unused will surely need more power than not doing so. Helmut -- 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
