On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:34 -0700, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Hmm... it seems odd to completely kill the feature rather than to flag > it as "beware, it's brittle" (e.g. only allow to turn it on with > "iwconfig wlanX power on-and-I-promise-I-wont-report-a-bug-if-its-buggy"). I do not see a way to communicate this to users. > > Also, it puzzles me: my 3945 has been working fine with power-saving for > more than 2 years (and earlier with ipw3945 as well) and I haven't > noticed any unreliability. Have I just been lucky or did the problem > only start to manifest in more "recent" versions of the driver, for > reasons we don't understand? The previous power saving implementation was very simple. Nothing was directed from upper layers and user had to manually choose a power index, which is communicated to device once and device remained in that power saving state from then on. Recent advances in power saving meant that more was asked from devices as they were asked to enter and exit power saving frequently. This new behavior is what is causing issues in 3945 and 4965. 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
