Hi On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 07:54:25PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 20:28:53 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 14:25:55 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:35:43PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > > > > up to 2.6.38, the iwl4965 driver was able to use power saving features > > > > by invoking "iwconfig <interface> power on", at least when unsetting > > > > the broken_powersave variable. > > > > > > > > 2.6.39 introduced a new iwlegacy driver for iwl4965 hardware, which was > > > > missing power saving. I was able to port the 2.6.38 driver up to > > > > kernel 3.1, but it got too complicated for me with 3.2. > > > > > > > > Are there any plans to fix this power usage regression at some point in > > > > the iwlegacy driver? I think there are still a lot of iwl4965 users out > > > > there. > > > Yes, adding PS support is on my iwlegacy TODO list. > > > > Thanks, I'd be glad if I could help, testing etc. > > Hi Stanislaw, > > is there any progress regarding this? If not, I could try to implement > it in the current kernel. However, I don't have any knowlegde about > hardware related features. If you have, maybe I could use your > knowledge to do it myself. I posted patch here http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=135601033021616&w=2 But I did not review code regarding power save to catch possible problems. Testing are bug reporting are welcome ... Thanks Stanislaw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
