On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:49 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:32:55AM +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > > 2009/1/21 Stefanik Gábor <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > I think EMBEDDED is for options that replace full-featured Linux > > > components with dumbed-down, "low-profile" equivalents (like SLOB) - > > > PID vs. minstrel is more like SLAB vs. SLUB. > > > > > > Gábor > > > > > > > Minstrell performs very well even on embedded devices, i don't think > > it's that heavy compared to pid. > > I think his point was that people should be able to select multiple > algorithms without having to select EMBEDDED. The reason it was originally under EMBEDDED is that this allows you to turn off _all_ algorithms, and that breaks, but might be desirable if you have a system where you know you're using iwlagn or ath9k only which have their own algorithms. johannes
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