On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I discovered that if EMBEDDED=y, one can accidentally build a mac80211 stack > w/ no rate control algorithm. When RC_MINISTREL and RC_PID are both disabled, > the RC_DEFAULT string (which rate.c uses as the fallback algorithm) will be > "". That'll cause the rate_control_alloc to fail, which will in turn cause > ieee80211_register_hw to fail. IOW, no driver will load. > > This will tell kconfig to provide a warning if no rate control algorithms > have been selected. That'll at least warn the user that they're about to > build a broken wireless stack. Please Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx here as well, I think we've had this for a while. > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Luis -- 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
