Re: ar9170 in AP mode

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:37:36AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@googlemail.com> writes:

> > So, I personally prefer to have "Do an AP right" or "Don't do it at
> > all". But please no general enablement.
> >
> > But, for example, having some CONFIG_AR9K_AP_MODE depending on
> > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and a bit fat warning would do for me. Hopefully
> > this would scara away distros, so that they don't turn this on for
> > there standard kernel :-)
> 
> I think EXPERIMENTAL is not enough, I would prefer that the user needs
> to patch the driver to enable it. Or if that's not good enough, then
> maybe depend on BROKEN.

Here we go again... :-)

So I definitely agree that it should be off by default.  I also agree
that it should be difficult to turn it on accidentally.  We don't
need any extra wierd bug reports.

OTOH, I think we can all acknowledge that many people have reasonable
use cases with their fleet of equipment.  I wonder if a sysctl would
be enough of a deterrent?  They are fairly simple to turn-on, but
you do have to know about them to do so...

John
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