Hi Andy, On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 07:53 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > Right now, enabling power saving on iwlwifi is impossible, because > mac80211 won't tell iwlwifi that power saving is on (since > IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS is not set) and iwlwifi will ignore the > user's power_level setting until mac80211 asks for power saving. > Setting this flag allows the user to manually enable power saving if > desired. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> > > --- nack. http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2053 and http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2051 are two examples of what happens if power save support is enabled. In addition to this we are also seeing issues with 4965 that are described in the commit that disabled powersave in 2.6.31 in the first place (286d94906587901851906a5e2ddc09bc1a7ba1d9). > This fixes what looks to me like a regression: power_level used to > work but now fails silently. In 2.6.32 I think this code is going > away, but this patch seems like a safe stopgap measure. 2.6.32 will have power save support disabled also. Reinette -- 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
