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Re: [PATCH] iwlcore: Allow runtime configuration of no_sleep_autoadjust

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On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:30 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> Runtime adjustment of no_sleep_autoadjust seems fine, both looking at
> the code and in practice.  This makes it easier to test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> I've been running this patch (and twiddling the setting) for a couple
> months now, and it seems to work fine.  I think it's a bit late for
> 2.6.32, even though it's pretty much impossible for this to cause any
> regressions, but it would be nice to see it go in for 2.6.33 until
> no_sleep_autoadjust goes away.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c
> index 60be976..4eba1ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
>   * adjusting ...
>   */
>  bool no_sleep_autoadjust = true;
> -module_param(no_sleep_autoadjust, bool, S_IRUGO);
> +module_param(no_sleep_autoadjust, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_sleep_autoadjust,
>  		 "don't automatically adjust sleep level "
>  		 "according to maximum network latency");

I think this change is a bit deceiving since making this writable does
not result in what you write to it at runtime being communicated to the
device.

Reinette


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