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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:54:25 +0100
From: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Power saving features for iwl4965
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On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 20:28:53 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 14:25:55 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:35:43PM +0200, 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.
> > > 
> > > 2.6.39 introduced a new iwlegacy driver for iwl4965 hardware, which was
> > > missing power saving.  I was able to port the 2.6.38 driver up to
> > > kernel 3.1, but it got too complicated for me with 3.2. 
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans to fix this power usage regression at some point in
> > > the iwlegacy driver? I think there are still a lot of iwl4965 users out
> > > there.
> > Yes, adding PS support is on my iwlegacy TODO list.
> 
> Thanks, I'd be glad if I could help, testing etc.

Hi Stanislaw,

is there any progress regarding this? If not, I could try to implement
it in the current kernel.  However, I don't have any knowlegde about
hardware related features.  If you have, maybe I could use your
knowledge to do it myself.

Regards,
Tino