On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:44:01PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > which userspace is using this btw?
> >
> > Ubuntu uses it to disable wireless hardware under certain circumstances.
> > I believe that Suse's powernowd uses it to power down wired ethernet
> > hardware when it's not in use.
Powersaved had implemented this, but it was always declared an experimental
feature and AFAIK is gone since quite some time.
> I flamed seife for this. It was always broken for 20%-or-so of
> hardware. It is _not_ simple to fix.
It was an experimental feature in the words sense:
For experimentation. I never accepted any bugreports for that but told
the reporters to go away :-)
--
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."
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