Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:27112 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbYG2J07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:26:59 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so3326898waf.23 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240807290226n19ab0944u8e27f40cb688cfcc@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080729_112704_491958_9E888191) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:26:58 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187 Cc: "Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski" , "Hin-Tak Leung" , "Larry Finger" , "Pavel Roskin" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1217322974.10489.0.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <487f5f20.2lT57D3i0q99wrfY%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <48874F09.7060400@lwfinger.net> <3ace41890807281939y462c9b91n5fa952e167b6ff8c@mail.gmail.com> <200807290021.45400.herton@mandriva.com.br> <1217314430.15381.11.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240807290123n7673dbb9m7121c1e76fe57e94@mail.gmail.com> <1217320089.15381.25.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240807290138h7deced1cob0836ae3e3c1e71a@mail.gmail.com> <1217322974.10489.0.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:38 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> >> iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one >> >> patch posted that implements it. >> >> I wanted to expand it but wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing this >> >> command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in distros. >> > >> > Heh, fun. Time for putting that into cfg80211 instead if nobody can use >> > it with wext anyway? >> >> 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. PS setting is rather global NIC state and should be set as user preference rather then per application ... socket. If I understand correctly what you mean by application. What user actually selects is performance/power consumption trade off. Tomas. > johannes >