[OLPC Networking] Testing the Wireless driver changes

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Jan 17 19:36:28 EST 2008


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.

-- 
dwmw2



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