Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Use minstrel rate control by default

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Ben Greear wrote:
> Then default to minstrel, but no need to make people re-compile their
> kernel to try a different rate control.  For some users/systems this is
> effectively impossible, and for the rest, it is an extra bit of pain.
> 
> The point of leaving ath9k rate control in is exactly to help make sure
> minstrel has something to compare against.  And if a user happens to know
> they have a clean environment always and forever, then ath9k may be
> the best solution for them.
> 
> It is a trivial amount of change to your patch to enable this
> behaviour.  In fact, if you just remove the code I mentioned then
> they will *automatically* get defaulted to minstrel regardless of
> their kernel config.  The only way to use ath9k rate control after
> that is to set the module option in mac80211 (and enable ath9k rate
> control for compilation).

Yes, I think this can be done instead, since we have always had both
ath9k RC and minstrel compiled in by default. I'll send a v2.

Sujith
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