power drain after wifi connection

[Paul Fertser]

Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> writes:
> On Thursday 26 May 2011 13:01:05 Alfa21-mobile wrote:
>> and are executables... but I do not know neither if they are called
>> after a wifi disconnection, nor if after an unbind/bind cycle the
>> power consumption during stdby returns to the same state like after a
>> reboot (now I'm testing this one)
>
> I am quite sure they are not called after disconnect. I think that the kernel 
> is responsible to turn wifi off in suspend (unless you want to keep it on during 
> suspend e.g. for wake-on-wlan function).

Yes, in suspend the kernel turns off the module completely, it
shouldn't drain anything, at least it never used to.

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