From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.31] iwlwifi: Reenable power_level
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:54:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251910457.13180.160.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb0375e10909020941qa54215cqb6af7ac01e87ccb3@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Andrew,
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> Fair enough. Would you accept a patch to remove power_level from sysfs instead?
No. This file is used when users want to manually reduce the power used
by device. This is the file you want to change if you want to extend
your battery life.
> >> This fixes what looks to me like a regression: power_level used to
> >> work but now fails silently. In 2.6.32 I think this code is going
> >> away, but this patch seems like a safe stopgap measure.
> >
> > 2.6.32 will have power save support disabled also.
>
> Any ETA for getting this fixed for real? I like my battery life :)
We are working on it.
Reinette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 14:53 [PATCH 2.6.31] iwlwifi: Reenable power_level Andrew Lutomirski
2009-09-02 15:56 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-02 16:41 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-09-02 16:54 ` reinette chatre [this message]
2009-09-02 17:03 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-02 17:17 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-02 17:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-02 17:38 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-09-02 18:23 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-02 16:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-02 16:57 ` reinette chatre
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