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Re: [RFC 0/3] mac80211 powersave improvements

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:01 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> 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.

That's a lot better. Gradually expanding the amount of users makes it
easier. Big bang is always difficult and usually doomed to a failure :)

>> > 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?

Yes, at least. Maybe even 1s? We can gradually start lowering it.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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