On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, reinette chatre<reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). > Fair enough. Would you accept a patch to remove power_level from sysfs instead? > >> 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. Any ETA for getting this fixed for real? I like my battery life :) --Andy -- 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
