On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 06:53 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:03:07AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > > > We are much too early to enumerate hardware, so it would be hard to > > integrate something like mac addresses etc. > > Stupid question --- is there a reason why the minstrel code is > initialized so early when it is compiled into the kernel? Can we > change it so it gets initialized later, after the devices are > initialized and we get the mac addresses? It's a bit of a chicken & egg problem - the minstrel rate control is needed for the wireless device to get registered - if anything were to fail there then we wouldn't want to register. johannes -- 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
