Re: wireless powersaving (in NM?)

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:04 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 11:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > or maybe gnome-power-manager (and whatever the kde equivalent is) should
> > be driving this based on all the other policy decisions it makes?  it's
> > the thing that handles whether you're on battery or on AC, what your
> > drive spin-down time is, it knows when your laptop lid is closed, what
> > your display brightness is at, etc.
> > 
> > it might use some information from NM as input, but the overall power
> > manager is probably where the actual policy decisions should be made.
> 
> Makes sense too. I guess that Marcel makes a compelling case for it
> always being enabled, and Kalle says we need to have an override --
> which semantically needs to be in NM/connman since that's where the user
> will look if the connection is flaky (because the AP is broken)

Yeah, sounds OK.  Just to be clear, problems with this code will appear
on a *per-AP* basis, not a per-card basis, right?  ie there are some
stupid APs that won't work with it, but it won't be the case that a
chipset will be broken for all APs, right?

Dan