From: tino <tino.keitel@tikei.de>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Power saving features for iwl4965
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:50:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120419185055.GA1266@mac.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4F90204D.3060801@sipsolutions.net
------- Original message -------
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> To: tino.keitel@tikei.de
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: 19.4.'12, 16:25
>
> On 4/18/2012 1:35 PM, 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.
>
> This isn't quite correct. Yes, power saving was enabled there, but
> relatively frequently it caused the device to crash. Therefore, it was
> disabled as a stability fix, not to remove powersaving from you :)
Hi,
I was aware that it was disabled because of stability issues in certain
setups. I never experienced any issue when running with power saving
enabled, though. Other people did the same and even suggested patches to
clear broken_powersave with a module parameter.
Regards,
Tino
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-18 20:35 Power saving features for iwl4965 Tino Keitel
2012-04-19 14:25 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-19 18:50 ` tino [this message]
2012-04-25 12:25 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-05-03 18:28 ` Tino Keitel
2012-12-26 18:54 ` Tino Keitel
2013-01-07 11:08 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-01-08 1:48 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-01-08 8:47 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-06-03 8:52 ` Tino Keitel
2013-06-03 14:18 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-06-09 0:28 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-06-10 19:31 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-06-11 16:19 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-06-11 18:55 ` Tino Keitel
2013-06-14 12:50 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-06-14 13:18 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-06-25 14:25 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-07-11 21:02 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-07-16 10:27 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-07-16 11:02 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-07-17 11:48 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-07-31 12:08 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-08-04 14:24 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-08-04 14:53 ` Pedro Francisco
2013-10-17 9:06 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-10-17 13:32 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-06-11 18:51 ` Tino Keitel
2014-02-18 10:57 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2014-02-18 11:32 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-02-18 11:59 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2014-02-20 12:08 ` Pedro Francisco
2014-02-25 16:16 ` Pedro Francisco
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2012-10-01 16:06 Tino Keitel
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