On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:04:19AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > You can currently only get away living without it if you are just
> > using iwl3945 or iwl4965 as they provide their own rate control
> > algorithms. In the future if other vendor drivers are added with their
> > own rate control algorithm this list grows.
>
> FWIW, I would like to see those algorithms be supported as part of
> mac80211 and not be internal like iwlwifi hacked them on, and have some
> sort of feature negotiation between the hardware and the RC algorithm
> when choosing one.
Do we need it as complicated as it is today?
Currently the infrastructure is:
- the default algorithm is built into mac80211
- other algorithms get into their own modules
The implementation of this complicated scheme is horrible
(just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new
algorithm will most likely not get it right at his first attempt.
Can we get one of either:
- all selected mac80211 algorithms are built into the mac80211 module or
- all selected mac80211 algorithms (including the default one) are in
their own modules
?
It wouldn't make any difference today for the CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n case,
but allows to make things less complicated and will make it easier to
add additional algorithms.
I'll be glad to provide a patch if one of these is considered
acceptable.
> johannes
cu
Adrian
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