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. > > For more details on this issue see the bug report: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14267 > > We leave AR5416 with PS disabled by default, that seems to require > some more work. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Greg, this is the long promised backport of the patch titled > "ath9k: re-enable ps by default for new single chip families" backported > down to 2.6.32.y. This just goes test compiled. Manual backport > was required from the upstream Linus patch since the flag > WIPHY_FLAG_PS_ON_BY_DEFAULT was not used back on 2.6.32 so instead > we use the equivalent hw->wiphy->ps_default bool. > > Apologies for the delay, was just stuck with other stuff. > > I'll remove this from the stable pending list for 802.11 [1] once > this gets sucked in. Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h -- 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
