From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] mac80211: Make PID rate control algorithm the default
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:48:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217144859.GB3121@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197885374.7514.6.camel@localhost>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:56:14AM +0100, Mattias Nissler wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 02:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > That was my original proposal, but during a recent discussion John
> > > suggested not to remove rc80211-simple right now, as it's currently
> > > almost working for a lot of people. John, any suggestions?
> >
> > Those people can fix the bitrate at 1M if the pid algorithm becomes
> > problematic, that's what simple currently does in practice.
>
> Agreed. So what flavour of this patch do you want? John?
My "Spidey sense" tells me it would be good to keep the old one around
for a little while... :-)
Besides, as we have seen recently people often get quite upset when
you remove a feature that they perceive to be working for them --
no matter how much better the alternative may be. It would be better
to give them some warning.
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-17 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-17 0:19 [patch 0/9] Rate control rework mattias.nissler
2007-12-17 0:20 ` [patch 5/9] mac80211: Introduce rate behaviour learning algorithm mattias.nissler
2007-12-17 0:20 ` [patch 9/9] mac80211: Publish rc80211_pid parameters in debugfs mattias.nissler
[not found] ` <20071217002056.351743954@gmx.de>
2007-12-17 0:49 ` [patch 4/9] mac80211: Make PID rate control algorithm the default Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 0:50 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-17 0:54 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 0:57 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-17 1:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 9:56 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-17 14:48 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-12-17 17:42 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 9:51 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-17 9:54 ` [patch 0/9] Rate control rework Mattias Nissler
2007-12-17 14:05 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 20:59 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-18 13:18 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <20071217002056.677829348@gmx.de>
2007-12-17 16:43 ` [patch 8/9] debugfs: Revamp debugfs_create_{u,x,s}{8,16,32,64} to support signed integers Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 21:05 ` Mattias Nissler
[not found] <20071217012517.882216322@gmx.de>
[not found] ` <20071217012550.213561122@gmx.de>
2007-12-17 11:52 ` [patch 4/9] mac80211: Make PID rate control algorithm the default Johannes Berg
2007-12-17 21:12 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-17 15:02 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-17 20:06 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-17 20:41 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-17 21:16 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-18 12:49 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-18 20:01 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-19 16:05 ` Johannes Berg
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