Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:48038 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752187AbYHQSB1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:01:27 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1462444fgg.17 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808171101j8a7a94dn6be58fe1a8f46dbd@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080817_200132_923749_3DA03E56) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:01:26 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: CPU load after killing iwlagn with RF kill switch Cc: "Mirco Tischler" , "Leonid Podolny" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, IvDoorn@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080817170714.GA29938@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <48A5EC02.4070303@gmail.com> <20080817035921.4d35ae0e@mtlp.12thdimension> <1ba2fa240808170004p63b76db1l1fdfb1cf1cb41636@mail.gmail.com> <20080817150242.GA23926@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240808170920r67e11567h2da8b396b18729dd@mail.gmail.com> <20080817170714.GA29938@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:07 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:20:54PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM, John W. Linville >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:04:12AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> > >> >> There is gap in current rfkill implementation that we didn't close >> >> yet. There were also few patches that were not signed by Intel and >> >> are apparently wrong. >> > >> > Can you be more specific? Do you know which patches are wrong (even >> > if you don't know how to fix them)? >> > >> >> 80fcc9e28cf3a209fbfb39a7bbddc313c59c7424 >> This one is wrong and there are more then are not acked even though >> they cause no problem. In general I would prefer that patches will be >> acked by Yi or me. > > And in general, they are. In general I would prefer if you would > work upstream instead of working in iwlwifi-2.6 and periodically > dumping a dozen or more patches on me all at once. C'est la vie... We cannot because no OSV or OEM ships latest kernel and mac80211 is periodically broken. There is a reason why compat-wireless was brought to life. The innovation to stabilization and testing ratio is not good. This is of course more complex than that and I didn't find the golden way yet. >> I will try to rebase our rfkill fixes ASAP from iwlwifi-2.6. iwl5000 branch. > > Thanks! > > John > -- > John W. Linville > linville@tuxdriver.com >