Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:35119 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874AbZDUNJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:09:54 -0400 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so1749338bwz.37 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:09:53 -0700 (PDT) To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211 powersave work References: <20090416111723.904720021@sipsolutions.net> <20090420194430.GG3369@tuxdriver.com> <1240257188.4632.19.camel@johannes.local> <87ocuqfuk3.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <20090421125132.GC17805@tuxdriver.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:09:48 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20090421125132.GC17805@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message of "Tue\, 21 Apr 2009 08\:51\:32 -0400") Message-ID: <87d4b6f90j.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090421_150958_387609_CE1D03B2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "John W. Linville" writes: >> Yes, in my opinion the power save should not be enabled by default for >> the big masses, at least not yet. My understanding is that only few >> people have tested it and I would like to see more testing first. >> >> But if you (Johannes&John) think it's ready for the prime time, I'm not >> going to complain :) > > Well there is always a trade-off. But by the time 2.6.31 come around > the code will have been in wireless-testing, net-next, and linux-next > for a reasonably long time. Hopefully we will have good confidence > in it by then. If not, then we can disable it by default later. That sounds good. With those three trees there should be quite a lot of testers. -- Kalle Valo