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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel