Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211 powersave work

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:28AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> 
> >> I'm not sure I understand.  Your patch (which would go to 2.6.31)
> >> has it turned-on by default.  Which way do you want it?
> >
> > I want it turned on by default, at least in wireless-testing; Kalle
> > thinks that we should turn it off for a .31 release.
> >
> > I would think that since an easy workaround is available ("iwconfig
> > wlan0 power off") and it doesn't affect most hardware yet anyway (only
> > those supporting powersave) we should turn it on by default anyway,
> > since otherwise we won't find any bugs -- but maybe that's just me.
> 
> Yes, in my opinion the power save should not be enabled by default for
> the big masses, at least not yet. My understanding is that only few
> people have tested it and I would like to see more testing first. 
> 
> But if you (Johannes&John) think it's ready for the prime time, I'm not
> going to complain :)

Well there is always a trade-off.  But by the time 2.6.31 come around
the code will have been in wireless-testing, net-next, and linux-next
for a reasonably long time.  Hopefully we will have good confidence
in it by then.  If not, then we can disable it by default later.

John
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