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Re: Power saving features for iwl4965

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 01:32:44PM +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:51:20PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 16:18:05 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> >>
> >> > Could you try this experimental patch?
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> on top of kernel 3.9.4 (with TuxOnIce patch), iwconfig wlan0 power on
> >> now saves more than 1 W on my ThinkPad X61s with iwl4965. I can finally
> >> switch to a recent kernel. Thanks a lot.
> >
> > This patch stuck on mailing list far too long, I'll post it. Even if it
> > crash firmware on 3945, power save is disabled by default.
> >
> 
> I'd be very surprised if this patch helped. I guess you took the code
> from iwlwifi in which we have enabled shadow registers for 7000
> series. This HW is problematic but it doesn't exit on 4965.

It is besed on old iwlwifi code (when iwlwifi & iwlegacy were one driver).

Stanislaw
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