Isn't Wifi supposed to be off by default?

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Fri Jan 16 12:10:53 CET 2009


Andy Green wrote:
> It's mainly just it is SDIO device on an SDIO bus that can't use SDIO
> interrupt line, and we want it modular.

Hmm, but the SDIO interrupt has nothing to do with rfkill :-)
Also, the modular angle comes from how the SDIO stack handles
suspend/resume, namely by removing the driver. The underlying
mechanism for rmmod/unbind/suspend is pretty much the same.
So even if we made the kernel monolithic, we'd still have all
the same issues.

> If the Atheros module had a kill pin we could drive it would have been
> trivial, same as if we had a dedicated switchable regulator (or MOSFET
> to control the power anyway) to supply the WLAN module.

Yeah, that would have made this quite a bit easier. Now we have
a very elaborate way for turning a request to change a single
bit into a series of complex transactions that in the end again
change a single bit we care a bout (and lots that we don't).

- Werner



More information about the openmoko-kernel mailing list