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Power consumption on Linux with 802.11

This section covers all aspects of power consumption and power saving with 802.11 on Linux.

• IEEE 802.11 power saving - Review of how this stuff works as per the IEEE 802.11

• Dynamic power save - support for dynamic power save on mac80211

• PM Quality of service - tuning the wireless subsystem through pm-qos

• Bluetooth-coexistence - If you want to use Bluetooth and 802.11 read this

• ASPM - ASPM support on Linux and 802.11

Devices measured power consumption

This section documents extensive power consumption details by supported devices:

• ath9k power consumption details