Testing the Wireless driver changes

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote:
> > It must be noted that the important issue of this discussion is how to have
> > the radio blocked from BEFORE the XO boots, so as not to be conflicting with
> > the airline regulations.
> 
> We should change the firmware so that it isn't active automatically as
> soon as it's loaded -- let the driver activate it when it's appropriate.
> Then the decision as to whether the radio is blocked can properly be
> handled in userspace, and the device can be left quiescent if
> appropriate.

Yes.  The active antennas firmware would need to be slightly altered to
start on firmware boot, but the normal XO firmware should certainly be
radio-off-until-driver-enabled (by setting IFF_UP or device open).

Dan