Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support

[<samuel@sortiz.org>]

Hi Thomas=0D
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:51:57 +0300, "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>=0D
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Johannes Berg=0D
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:=0D
>> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:55 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:=0D
>>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:40:58PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:=0D
>>> > Hi John,=0D
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>>> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:53:26PM +0100, Miguel Bot=C3=B3n wrote=
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>>> > > Ok, the previous patch had a little error.=0D
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>>> > > --=0D
>>> > >=0D
>>> > > This patch adds power management support in mac80211.=0D
>>> > Sorry for being late to the game, but would a similar patch again=
st=0D
> your=0D
>>> > -next-2.6 tree be considered for inclusion ?=0D
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>>> It seems like a reasonable start to me.  Anyone else have comments?=
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>> I had one about it returning -EINVAL for all errors that was never=0D
>> addressed afaict.=0D
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> Didn't Yi submitted this one like year ago and rejected?=0D
I searched through the mailing list, but couldnt find anything else=0D
than this patch.=0D
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> This is why we have currently implemented in iwlwif sysfs.=0D
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> /sys/class/net/wlanX/devices/power_level=0D
> there are defined 6 power levels=0D
> 0 - CAM mode (Continuous Aware Mode)=0D
> 6 - AUTO=0D
> 1 to 5 levels that specifies power save aggressiveness  empirically=0D
> developed.=0D
> AUTO - depends on system power source/level=0D
> system power level is AC or BATTERY  - currently we do not have=0D
> anything that tells us whether we run on battery or ac.=0D
> Other factor is association state.=0D
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> This can be expressed as=0D
> iwconfig power saving 1..5=0D
> iwconfig power off - > CAM mode=0D
> iwconfig power auto - this is unfortunately not defined by iwconfig=0D
> =0D
> If this acceptable we can submit the patch=0D
Are you talking about the wext patch, or the sysfs one ?=0D
I'd definitely be happy to have a look at the wext one.=0D
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Cheers,=0D
Samuel.

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