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On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 13:58 -0700, reinette chatre wrote:

> > Or will this test:
> >         if (!iwl_is_alive(priv))
> >                 return -EAGAIN;
> > 
> > kick us out before even getting to the rfkill test?
> 
> Yes ... and it is not immediately clear that it is caused by rfkill. The
> STATUS_ALIVE bit that is tested here is cleared when machine is
> suspended. When machine is resumed and HW rfkill is set then it will not
> come up fully, see __iwl_up() that returns early with success if rfkill
> is enabled. STATUS_ALIVE will only be set again after HW rfkill is
> disabled and we initialize ucode again.

Ok... Very confusing. Can you change the patch to have a comment that
this should also be changed back when rfkill is integrated with
mac80211? Maybe I'll even do that for .31.

Thanks,
Johannes

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