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On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 14:25:55 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:35:43PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > up to 2.6.38, the iwl4965 driver was able to use power saving features
> > by invoking "iwconfig <interface> power on", at least when unsetting
> > the broken_powersave variable.
> > 
> > 2.6.39 introduced a new iwlegacy driver for iwl4965 hardware, which was
> > missing power saving.  I was able to port the 2.6.38 driver up to
> > kernel 3.1, but it got too complicated for me with 3.2. 
> > 
> > Are there any plans to fix this power usage regression at some point in
> > the iwlegacy driver? I think there are still a lot of iwl4965 users out
> > there.
> Yes, adding PS support is on my iwlegacy TODO list.

Thanks, I'd be glad if I could help, testing etc.

Regards,
Tino
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