From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: mac80211: rc algos broken
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:35:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712202035.45909.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712202020.51320.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:20:51 Michael Buesch wrote:
> RC algos are broken in current wireless-2.6.
> PID fails to load because it can not find any debugfs
> related symbols (debugfs is mounted and works fine). I tried adding
> an #include <linux/debugfs.h> to the code, but it doesn't help.
>
> mac80211 also fails to load _any_ rc algorithm.
> Both, PID and simple are compiled (after disabling debugfs stuff)
> and mac80211 fails to find, load or whatever any of them.
> The message "Failed to load rc algo blabla you know it" appears.
>
> Thanks a lot for fixing this ;)
>
Grepping the code it seems that nobody is ever calling
ieee80211_rate_control_register(). I guess that it kind of a fatal problem. ;)
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 19:20 mac80211: rc algos broken Michael Buesch
2007-12-20 19:35 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-12-20 20:51 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-21 14:13 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-20 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] rc80211-pid: fix debugfs missing symbols Stefano Brivio
2007-12-20 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: fix breakage Stefano Brivio
2007-12-20 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 " Stefano Brivio
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