linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support -v2

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:55:25 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Miguel Botón <mboton.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add power management support -v2

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:13:58AM +0100, Miguel Botón wrote:

> This patch adds power management support in mac80211.
> 
> This allows us to enable power management through the "iwconfig <device> power <off/on>" command.
> The code is based on "mac80211-10.0.0" but it is a little bit modified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Botón <mboton@...il.com>
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
> index 5fcc4c1..c82b6fa 100644
> --- a/include/net/mac80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
> @@ -452,6 +452,8 @@ struct ieee80211_conf {
>  	u8 antenna_max;
>  	u8 antenna_sel_tx;
>  	u8 antenna_sel_rx;
> +
> +	u8 power_management_enable;     /* flag to enable/disable power management */
>  };
>  
>  /**

I'm not overly happy with this.  What about folding this into the
flags variable?

John
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John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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