On 01/23/2011 09:45 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > I'm trying to use a special rate-control algorithm. ATM, this is necessary > because I don't know how to get the retry info from the firmware. This setup > worked fine with rtl8192ce using a fixed name compiled in the rate_control_ops > struct. The problem is that this code is also used by a new USB driver named > rtl8192cu that shares the rtlwifi module with the PCIe driver. When both are > loaded, the second gets a duplicate name warhing. To fix this, I have set up > code that generates a unique name, but it doesn't work. To help debug, I added a > printk to dump the name used in every call to ieee80211_rate_control_register(). > The result of that printk is shown below. The 3rd value listed is my new one and > all looks OK; however, the selected rate control is "minstrel_ht", not my > special one. > > ops->name: minstrel > ops->name: minstrel_ht > --snip-- > ops->name: rtl-rc-0 > ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' > > Any thoughts on what might be wrong, or what values should be dumped for debugging? I figured out my problem - I was not setting the rate_control_algorithm entry in struct ieee80211_hw correctly. All is fine now. Larry -- 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
