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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support

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Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is why we have currently implemented in iwlwif sysfs.
>
> /sys/class/net/wlanX/devices/power_level
> there are defined 6 power levels
> 0 - CAM mode (Continuous Aware Mode)
> 6 - AUTO
> 1 to 5 levels that specifies power save aggressiveness  empirically developed.
> AUTO - depends on system power source/level
> system power level is AC or BATTERY  - currently we do not have
> anything that tells us whether we run on battery or ac.
> Other factor is association state.
>
> This can be expressed as
> iwconfig power saving 1..5
> iwconfig power off - > CAM mode
> iwconfig power auto - this is unfortunately not defined by iwconfig
>
> If this acceptable we can submit the patch

Sounds good to me, at least. It would be nice to have PSM support to
mac80211.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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