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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Martín Ernesto Barreyro" <barreyromartin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing from Minstrel to PID
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:42:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091107134224.GA25893@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257548493.3752.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:01:33PM -0300, Martín Ernesto Barreyro wrote:
> El vie, 06-11-2009 a las 16:48 -0500, John W. Linville escribió:
> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:29:16PM -0300, Martín Ernesto Barreyro wrote:
> > > Hello, I have a rtl8187 wireless card and I've allways have problems
> > > with the rate control using minstrel. So everytime my kernel updates
> > > (recently it went from 2.30 to 2.31) i have to recompile mi kernel
> > > setting pid as my default rate control algorithm.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to change that without compiling the kernel?
> > 
> > No, but I wish there were...patches?  Anyone?
> > 
> > John
> 
> I've been searching and it seems that it could be added something like
> modprobe mac80211 rc='pid'
> 
> Would it be a good idea?

Well if you are happy with a module option, we already have
ieee80211_default_rc_algo.

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 21:29 Changing from Minstrel to PID Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-06 21:48 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-06 22:13   ` Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-06 22:24     ` Bob Copeland
2009-11-06 22:40       ` Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-07 13:43       ` John W. Linville
2009-11-07 17:26         ` Bob Copeland
2009-11-06 23:01   ` Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-07 12:18     ` Hin-Tak Leung
     [not found]       ` <cec7b3dc0911081339g5f838527nf76a15889ecaddbd@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-08 23:38         ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-11-10  2:18           ` Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-07 13:42     ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-11-09 12:11       ` Martín Ernesto Barreyro
2009-11-09 15:57         ` Hin-Tak Leung

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