On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:37:36AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > So, I personally prefer to have "Do an AP right" or "Don't do it at > > all". But please no general enablement. > > > > But, for example, having some CONFIG_AR9K_AP_MODE depending on > > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and a bit fat warning would do for me. Hopefully > > this would scara away distros, so that they don't turn this on for > > there standard kernel :-) > > I think EXPERIMENTAL is not enough, I would prefer that the user needs > to patch the driver to enable it. Or if that's not good enough, then > maybe depend on BROKEN. Here we go again... :-) So I definitely agree that it should be off by default. I also agree that it should be difficult to turn it on accidentally. We don't need any extra wierd bug reports. OTOH, I think we can all acknowledge that many people have reasonable use cases with their fleet of equipment. I wonder if a sysctl would be enough of a deterrent? They are fairly simple to turn-on, but you do have to know about them to do so... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
