On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:53:08PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:44 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:17:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > This is pretty much unchanged from my previous v2 RFCs,
> > > except that I added a default of 500ms for the dynamic
> > > powersave timer.
> > >
> > > The fourth patch is new, it adds beacon filtering to
> > > mac80211 -- for the reasons explained in that patch.
> > >
> > > For 2.6.31, we should make MAC80211_DEFAULT_PS default
> > > off instead. John, how do you want to handle that?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand. Your patch (which would go to 2.6.31)
> > has it turned-on by default. Which way do you want it?
>
> I want it turned on by default, at least in wireless-testing; Kalle
> thinks that we should turn it off for a .31 release.
>
> I would think that since an easy workaround is available ("iwconfig
> wlan0 power off") and it doesn't affect most hardware yet anyway (only
> those supporting powersave) we should turn it on by default anyway,
> since otherwise we won't find any bugs -- but maybe that's just me.
Ah, OK -- let's leave it on for now and if it is a problem we can
turn it off in 2.6.31 during/after 2.6.31-rc1.
John
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