To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:40:04 +0300
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Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

>> I've planned to but I waited for some API design suggestions  you guys
>> will come from OLS but I didn't get much input.
>
> This particular thing I don't remember talking about except that we
> want, when powersave is on, be able to select the powersaving level
> based on information applications attach to their sockets, rather than
> requiring the user to make a guess.

We also talked about first implementing a simple interface to enable
and disable powersave. And also about having a timer which enables
powersave whenever where is no traffic, ie. sort of dynamic powersave.
That's a good enough solution which is still simple to implement.

-- 
Kalle Valo