[OLPC-devel] Build image 76.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti at redhat.com> [060824 20:51]:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Interesting.  I'm glad we now know what was going on.
> > 
> > In theory, I would think the device driver should have responsibility
> > for enabling the power on devices; in Linux has knowledge of the bus
> > topology.
> 
> Not really - in this case its responsability of the BIOS to power up the
> device.
> 
> Richard, Ronald, please fixup LinuxBIOS to enable the WLAN_EC pin.

I agree, to some extent.

But: Could the driver save power by disabling the pin? In this case 
it might become interesting to have the driver know about it.

Stefan

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