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

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Andres,

> I discovered that if EMBEDDED=y, one can accidentally build a mac80211 stack
> and drivers w/ no rate control algorithm.  For drivers like RTL8187 that don't
> supply their own RC algorithms, this will cause ieee80211_register_hw to
> fail (making the driver unusable).
> 
> This will tell kconfig to provide a warning if no rate control algorithms
> have been selected.  That'll at least warn the user; users that know that
> their drivers supply a rate control algorithm can safely ignore the
> warning, and those who don't know (or who expect to be using multiple
> drivers) can select a default RC algorithm.

this is not an acceptable policy. You are generating false positives now
for drivers that have been fine before.

Regards

Marcel