From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: ian <ischram@telenet.be>, wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: letting drivers choose their preferred rate scale
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:09:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831180933.GB3352@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188211749.6756.11.camel@johannes.berg>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:49:09PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:15 +0200, ian wrote:
>
> > I reread the discussion carefully and can't find any specific
> > comments on the patch which for clarity I will reproduce below.
>
> Then I guess I remember wrong and the comment was raised in another
> thread. The problem we have is that once any rate control algorithm is
> loaded, it will be default for any future drivers, which is often
> inappropriate. Hence, it would be great if
> hw->preferred_rate_control==NULL would indicate "use default" where
> "default" would be set to "simple" to start with but also changeable.
> (although the change functionality could just be not usable from
> userspace for now)
I ACK this approach. Anyone have a patch hacked-up to post?
John
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John W. Linville
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-25 2:37 letting drivers choose their preferred rate scale ian
2007-08-25 8:02 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-25 12:15 ` ian
2007-08-25 14:19 ` Jochen Voss
2007-08-27 10:49 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-31 18:09 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-09-03 0:21 ` ian
2007-09-03 8:20 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-03 8:38 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-03 14:06 ` ian
2007-09-13 18:39 ` John W. Linville
2007-09-13 21:42 ` Ian Schram
2007-09-14 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
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