From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:00:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061220150009.1d697f15@griffin.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061220125314.GA24188@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:53:14 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The situation is more complicated for wireless. Userspace expects to be
> able to get scan results from the card even if the interface is down.
User space should get an error when trying to get scan results from the
interface that is down. Some drivers are broken and don't do this but
when they're fixed there is no problem here.
> In that case, I'm pretty sure we need a third state rather than just
> "up" or "down".
We have that third state, it's IFF_DORMANT. Not supported yet by any
wireless driver/stack, unfortunately.
Thanks,
Jiri
--
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-20 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-19 18:52 Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace Matthew Garrett
2006-12-19 19:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-19 19:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-19 20:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-19 20:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-19 20:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-19 20:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-19 20:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-21 0:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-19 21:34 ` David Brownell
2006-12-20 0:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 3:59 ` Changes to " David Brownell
2006-12-20 4:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 5:14 ` David Brownell
2006-12-20 5:34 ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 5:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 7:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 12:53 ` Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 13:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 14:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 15:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 22:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 23:37 ` Rick Jones
2006-12-19 23:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 0:11 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-20 0:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 11:18 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-21 1:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 2:05 ` Michael Wu
2006-12-21 2:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 2:38 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 2:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:08 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 3:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:37 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:29 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:14 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 13:14 ` jamal
2006-12-21 2:29 ` Daniel Drake
2006-12-21 2:10 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-12-21 8:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-22 1:03 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-23 8:54 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-20 15:27 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-20 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 16:40 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-20 17:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 20:40 ` Benny Amorsen
2006-12-20 21:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 21:15 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-12-20 14:00 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2006-12-20 18:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 1:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 1:57 ` Michael Wu
2006-12-21 2:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:02 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:06 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 3:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:32 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 13:19 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-12-21 17:16 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-21 18:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-22 1:25 ` Matt Domsch
2006-12-20 16:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-22 21:09 ` Changes to PM layer break userspace Pavel Machek
2006-12-24 7:02 ` David Brownell
2006-12-28 13:31 ` Alan
2006-12-28 16:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 5:27 ` David Brownell
2006-12-20 2:15 ` Changes to sysfs " Andrew Morton
2006-12-20 2:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-20 3:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-20 3:29 ` David Brownell
2006-12-21 3:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-21 4:56 ` David Brownell
2006-12-21 5:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-21 7:05 ` David Brownell
2006-12-21 8:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-22 20:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-23 14:02 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-12-19 21:22 ` David Brownell
2006-12-19 22:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-19 23:36 ` Changes to " David Brownell
2006-12-20 0:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 3:19 ` David Brownell
2006-12-20 3:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 4:15 ` David Brownell
2006-12-20 4:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state Matthew Garrett
2006-12-20 21:18 ` David Brownell
2006-12-21 1:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 3:04 ` David Brownell
2006-12-21 4:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-12-21 4:51 ` David Brownell
2007-01-25 5:00 ` [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression Matthew Garrett
2007-01-26 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 20:42 ` Greg KH
2007-01-27 1:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-27 17:19 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-26 20:41 ` Greg KH
2007-01-26 21:56 ` David Brownell
2007-01-26 22:19 ` Greg KH
2007-01-26 23:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-27 0:42 ` David Brownell
2007-01-27 0:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-27 2:40 ` David Brownell
2007-01-27 17:38 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-27 22:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-31 10:34 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-27 1:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-27 3:02 ` David Brownell
2007-01-29 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-27 13:17 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-30 18:43 ` Eric Piel
2007-01-30 18:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-01-30 19:01 ` Eric Piel
2007-01-31 10:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-01-31 11:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-20 4:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] Update feature-removal-schedule.txt Matthew Garrett
2006-12-22 20:47 ` Changes to PM layer break userspace Pavel Machek
2006-12-21 5:25 Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down David Brownell
2006-12-21 7:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-21 8:11 ` David Brownell
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