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Re: [compat-masters] Backported MQ requirement on 802.11n for older kernels

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:12:41PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>
>> > Johannes -- why do we have the requirement for NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE
>> > on CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS? My current config doesn't have it it and
>> > CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS still works right now enabled. Of course the
>> > driver I'm testing doesn't have 11n though.
>>
>> because otherwise skb_get_queu_mapping always returns 0 and you use only
>> one queue.
>>
>> > Shouldn't we just make MAC80211_QOS depend on NET_SCHED and figure out
>> > we can't support 11n based on NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE?
>>
>> no, 11e also needs multiple queues.
>
> Thanks, since MAC80211_QOS was there before the issue is some
> kernels may have this enabled but they never got to MQ. This is why
> certain compiles will complain about missing symbols.
>
> So how about we disable it if we determine MQ and NET_SCHED are off?
> Like this:
>
> diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk
> index e8dc469..b72e37e 100644
> --- a/config.mk
> +++ b/config.mk
> @@ -27,7 +27,16 @@ ifeq ($(shell test $(KERNEL_SUBLEVEL) -lt 23 && echo yes),yes)
>  CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS=y
>  else
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE),)
> -$(warning "WARNING: You are running a kernel >= 2.6.23, you should enable CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE for 802.11n support")
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_NET_SCHED),)
> +$(warning "WARNING: You are running a kernel >= 2.6.23, you should enable CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE and CONFIG_NET_SCHED for 802.11[ne] support")
> +else
> +# Disable CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS if you had it enabled befofre in your old .config
> +$(warning "WARNING: You are running a kernel >= 2.6.23, you should enable CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE for 802.11[ne] support")
> +CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS=n
> +endif
> +else
> +# Disable CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS if you had it enabled befofre in your old .config
> +CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS=n
>  endif
>  endif
>  endif
>
One thing it's not clear for me. What do you mean by old .config
CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS flags is available only in wireless-testing?
The makefile is feed by compat.mk and DOTconfig from the target kernel
(KLIB) (in my case 2.6.25)
>From what I see the flags from wireless-testing  need to be always
reflected in compat.mk.

Thanks
Tomas
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