Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:19:33 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, akpm@osdl.org
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression
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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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