On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:15:56PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi! > > Just had this idea -- when our networking interfaces are UP, but not > actually doing anything, the RF chains consume power. This is, often, > the default state, since you'll have your wifi on due to NM wanting to > find APs, but not associated, for example when on the road. Sure, you > can manually turn it off, but... > > However, it doesn't seem necessary. When we are not associated to an AP, > and there are no extra interfaces in mac80211 active like monitor > interfaces, it seems that we could very well turn off the radio while > not scanning. It would be entirely trivial for mac80211 to do this, > probably a 20 line patch or so (need some bookkeeping about why radio is > disabled so it's not just four lines). Makes sense to me... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
