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Re: [patch 4/9] mac80211: Make PID rate control algorithm the default

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:56:14AM +0100, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 02:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > That was my original proposal, but during a recent discussion John
> > > suggested not to remove rc80211-simple right now, as it's currently
> > > almost working for a lot of people. John, any suggestions?
> > 
> > Those people can fix the bitrate at 1M if the pid algorithm becomes
> > problematic, that's what simple currently does in practice.
> 
> Agreed. So what flavour of this patch do you want? John?

My "Spidey sense" tells me it would be good to keep the old one around
for a little while... :-)

Besides, as we have seen recently people often get quite upset when
you remove a feature that they perceive to be working for them --
no matter how much better the alternative may be.  It would be better
to give them some warning.

John
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John W. Linville
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