Hi John, On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:03 -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 23:18 -0700, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > Am Donnerstag, 26. März 2009 schrieb Reinette Chatre: > > > Remove STATUS_ALIVE checking when HW RF KILL disabled, the bit get > > > clear in __iwl_down() function; the additional checking will fail and > > > cause RF can not be turn back on. > > > > Maybe just checking for is_open instead of STATUS_ALIVE will fix the issue > > too? I only had a quick look but it looks possible. AFAICS is_open indicates > > if the interface was taken up by mac80211. So if the interface is up but > > STATUS_ALIVE is not set we want to restart the adapter after unkilling but > > if the interface is still down (is_open==0) we do not want to restart the > > adapter. Furthermore, is_open is also set in case the interface was taken > > up but wireless was rfkilled. > > Very good idea ... I'm looking into this. Could you please drop this patch? We will send a new fix for this problem using Helmut's suggestion. Thank you Reinette -- 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
