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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:56:41PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > Or am I misstating that long thread? David, your thoughts?
>
> My recollection of that thread was that *NOBODY* claimed that a
> replacement of that (broken-by-design) mechanism would ever exist.
>
> However, there was some interesting discussion of just how to fix
> the wireless adapters. There appeared to be consensus that the
> right solution involved "ifdown wlan0" (or whatever) ought to power
> down that adapter, in the way Matthew wanted.
>
> I thought the resolution was that fixing a few of those drivers
> should solve the problem Matthew needed resolved, and that in
> the meanwhile "rmmod drivername" should suffice. There also seemed
> to be agreement that power management for wireless devices needed
> more work; there might need to be a state between "down/off" and
> "configured and able to talk IP".

Ok, that sounds like what I thought the thread resolved too.

Andrew, please drop this patch from your queue, and I'll make sure the
stable tree doesn't get it either.

thanks,

greg k-h
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