On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:38 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> >> iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one >> >> patch posted that implements it. >> >> I wanted to expand it but wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing this >> >> command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in distros. >> > >> > Heh, fun. Time for putting that into cfg80211 instead if nobody can use >> > it with wext anyway? >> >> I've planned to but I waited for some API design suggestions you guys >> will come from OLS but I didn't get much input. > > This particular thing I don't remember talking about except that we > want, when powersave is on, be able to select the powersaving level > based on information applications attach to their sockets, rather than > requiring the user to make a guess. PS setting is rather global NIC state and should be set as user preference rather then per application ... socket. If I understand correctly what you mean by application. What user actually selects is performance/power consumption trade off. Tomas. > johannes > -- 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
