On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:01 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > 1) improve powersave to only allow it when a single > > managed interface is active > > > > 2) disable PS when the maximum networking latency > > applications are are willing to put up with is > > smaller than the beacon interval -- in that case > > we cannot allow the AP to buffer frames > > No problem with these. I'll send these along with the software beacon filtering, I think. > > 3) enable powersave by default > > > > The last part might be controversial? > > I think this a bad idea. For normal users we should not enable powersave > by default, at least not yet. I believe that there would be so much > problems that we would have to revert the change eventually. We can go with the configurable one -- and default y in wireless-testing but default n in mainline for a while. Get press coverage etc. and at some point flip the switch. > > Should we have a default setting for the dynamic PS > > timeout? > > Yes. Having timeout zero makes no sense in normal laptop use. So, what's a good default? Fairly long I'd say, maybe 500ms? johannes
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