On Monday 01 August 2011 18:43:13 Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Daniel > Modify the driver so that it does not function when the interface is > down, in preparation for runtime power management. > > No commands can be run while the interface is down, so the ndo_dev_stop > routine now directly does all necessary work (including asking the device > to disconnect from the network and disabling multicast functionality) > directly. > > power_save and power_restore hooks are added meaning that card drivers > can take steps to turn the device off when the interface is down. You mean completely off? And firmware needs to be reloaded after power up? > The MAC address can now only be changed when all interfaces are down; > the new address will be programmed when an interface gets brought up. > This matches mac80211 behaviour. > > Also, some small cleanups/simplifications were made in the surrounding > device handling logic. Regards Vasily -- 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
