Hi! So I was looking through various drivers, and not all of them are able to handle radio_enabled gracefully. iwlwifi, for instance, turns off the radio but then is unable to fulfil any configuration requests coming in while the radio is disabled. The same is true, if I remember correctly what Ivo told me, for rt2x00. It is not true for b43/legacy, for example, which leaves the MAC running and thus can configure everything even if the radio is disabled. Similarly for Atheros hw, I think. Now, if we're going to use radio_enabled more, I wonder whether we should completely deconfigure the hardware when we want to turn off radio_enabled, and then completely reconfigure it once we enable the radio again. Pros: * configures all hardware correctly without the driver needing to do everything by itself * works with all hardware for sure Cons: * higher latency Also, sometimes we may want to disable the radio for just short periods of time, I think, for regulatory compliance? 11h or so? How's that handled, or rather supposed to be? johannes
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