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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] mac80211 dynamic power save
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:55:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230069346.31228.51.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081218213306.7248.64398.stgit@tikku> (sfid-20081218_223647_038092_06E155B0)

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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:35 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Here is v5 of my dynamic powersave patches. I have tested them with
> stlc45xx on Nokia N810.

> Power save related features which I'll implement later:
> o disable power save when software scanning
> o move dynamic_ps_timeout to hw.conf so that drivers can use it in
>   case they need to
> o beacon period (wakeup period) to the drivers, can be set from user
>   space but otherwise is bss's DTIM value

Now that these are in, and more things for user interface are on the
way, we should probably think about implementing the policy in
userspace. Should that be part of NM? It could take into account things
like the system power state (AC/battery) for the decision, at least by
default?

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-23 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 21:35 [PATCH v6 0/3] mac80211 dynamic power save Kalle Valo
2008-12-18 21:35 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] mac80211: enable IEEE80211_CONF_PS only when associated Kalle Valo
2008-12-18 21:35 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] mac80211: track master queue status Kalle Valo
2008-12-18 21:35 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] mac80211: implement dynamic power save Kalle Valo
2008-12-19  6:17   ` Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-19  6:21     ` Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-19  7:37       ` Kalle Valo
2008-12-19  7:45     ` Kalle Valo
2008-12-19  9:21       ` Ivo Van Doorn
2008-12-23 21:55 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-12-28 12:54   ` [PATCH v6 0/3] mac80211 " Kalle Valo

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