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SubjectRe: CPU load after killing iwlagn with RF kill switch
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:07 PM, John W. Linville
<linville@tuxdriver.com> 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
>> <linville@tuxdriver.com> 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
>


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