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Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.y] ath9k: re-enable ps by default for new single chip families

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:15:29AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 10:53 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:01:36AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >> On 06/16/2010 08:49 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Justin P. Mattock
> >>> <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> >>>> On 06/16/2010 01:12 AM, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:19:19PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> commit 14acdde6e527950f66c084dbf19bad6fbfcaeedc upstream.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The newer single chip hardware family of chipsets have not been
> >>>>>> experiencing issues with power saving set by default with recent
> >>>>>> fixes merged (even into stable). The remaining issues are only
> >>>>>> reported with AR5416 and since enabling PS by default can increase
> >>>>>> power savings considerably best to take advantage of that feature
> >>>>>> as this has been tested properly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I havent had any issues lately. But that said Ive moved on to
> >>>>> 2.6.33, 2.6.34 which seems to work fine. Believe you set
> >>>>> to disabled by default on those?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /Kristoffer
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> just tried to add this patch to the latest HEAD, but realized
> >>>> ath_set_hw_capab is missing(or I cant seem to grep it)
> >>>> if you have a patch for the latest tree let me know I can see if I'm hitting
> >>>> anything like before.
> >>>
> >>> The patch would already be merged since 2.6.33.y, this patch is a
> >>> backport for 2.6.32.y. I just hadn't had time to backport it yet,
> >>> until today.
> >>>
> >>>     Luis
> >>>
> >>
> >> so its already in there then..
> >
> > Right
> >
> >> if that's the case then the system runs
> >> good with powersave on then..
> >
> > Did you read the patch by chance? It only enables power save for
> > non-AR5416 hardware. What do you have?
> >
> >    Luis
> >
> 
> mine is the AR5008

Ok I should say, all AR5008 and AR9001 family chipsets have
power save disabled still. Only AR9002 and up have it enabled
now. The patch was doing the same for 2.6.32.

  Luis
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