From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"Samuel Ortiz" <samuel@sortiz.org>,
"Miguel Botón" <mboton.lkml@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:14:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wskb7bvt.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240806261451n53e5cb8an70aad7b072121c2e@mail.gmail.com> (ext Tomas Winkler's message of "Fri\, 27 Jun 2008 00\:51\:57 +0300")
Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> writes:
> This is why we have currently implemented in iwlwif sysfs.
>
> /sys/class/net/wlanX/devices/power_level
> there are defined 6 power levels
> 0 - CAM mode (Continuous Aware Mode)
> 6 - AUTO
> 1 to 5 levels that specifies power save aggressiveness empirically developed.
> AUTO - depends on system power source/level
> system power level is AC or BATTERY - currently we do not have
> anything that tells us whether we run on battery or ac.
> Other factor is association state.
>
> This can be expressed as
> iwconfig power saving 1..5
> iwconfig power off - > CAM mode
> iwconfig power auto - this is unfortunately not defined by iwconfig
>
> If this acceptable we can submit the patch
Sounds good to me, at least. It would be nice to have PSM support to
mac80211.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-27 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-16 18:29 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 18:29 ` Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 18:53 ` Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 18:53 ` Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 19:02 ` Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 19:02 ` Miguel Botón
2007-11-16 21:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-26 17:40 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-06-26 17:55 ` John W. Linville
2008-06-26 18:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-26 21:51 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-26 22:10 ` samuel
2008-06-27 4:14 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-07-04 8:49 ` [PATCH] mac80211: power management wext hooks (was [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support) Samuel Ortiz
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