Kernel package and modules

Michael Lauer mickey at openmoko.org
Tue Aug 5 13:54:33 CEST 2008


Am 05.08.2008 um 12:48 schrieb Andy Green:

> Anyway if it cheers you up, currently bringing up WLAN by default in
> monolithic kernel costs 300ms.  If someone can figure out a way to
> provoke a rescan nicely, we can defer that until someone turns WLAN  
> on,
> saving power and 300ms at boot, enough to hide a ton of driver inits.
> So we can get to waiting for the userspace boot that much quicker.
>
> I already have a patch to enable and disable WLAN down /sys, just  
> can't
> see how to tell the SDIO stack about it in a way that works.

Ah, thanks for that. We can add proper wifi power control then in the  
odevice daemon. Previously I did this with setting txtransmit, but  
begin able to "completely" shut it down would be appreciated.

:M:




More information about the devel mailing list