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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: give warning if building w/out rate ctrl algorithm

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On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:07 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:

> > > +comment "mac80211 will not work properly w/out rate control
> > > algorithm"
> > > +	depends on MAC80211_HAS_RC=n
> > 
> > Except that isn't true for hardware that doesn't require an algorithm,
> > or drivers that provide it themselves, like iwlagn or ath9k. I would
> > prefer it to be worded accordingly.
> > 
> 
> Noted.  I was wondering if there were any.
> 
> How about having drivers that need them depend upon MAC80211_HAS_RC or
> some such, and having the text say something like "most drivers require
> rate control"?

I guess that might make sense in that if you have any driver that needs
it, it'd remind you to select one. I'd be happy with that if you want to
do it, but that means touching all the driver Kconfig. Alternatively,
I'd just reword the warning to include that possibility.

johannes

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