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James Ketrenos wrote: > I don't know if all the distributions have moved away from this model. > If they have and the devices are brought up regardless of link, then > going back to delaying radio initialization until the open() is called > is workable. When the interface is not up, we ideally want the device to be as passive as possible. Most net drivers shut down as much as possible at dev->close() time, and it would really be good if wireless drivers followed suit. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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