On Wednesday 02 January 2008 09:52:14 Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Building an algorithm optionally into mac80211 seems rather odd. In > > case mac80211 the algorithms should be their own modules and you should > > use request_module to make sure at least one is loaded. > > We actually do that but people still manage to mess it up because they > don't install the modules properly or whatever. > > > Or if you > > really want to make sure one is alway avaiabable always build the > > simplest one directly and unconditionally into mac80211.ko. > > That'd be an alternative too, I think we have something like that now. I > don't really like it that much though because for 99% of people it's > just dead code. Anyway, I'll look into Sam's mail and do a new patch > depending on that. What about simply _not_ failing the initialization of mac80211, if no rc algo is available? I mean, we can just use a fixed rate we get through WEXT and stuff. Simply start at 1M on init in that case and stay at a fixed 1M until the user sets a different fixed rate through WEXT. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
