Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750982AbWAETHg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:07:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752071AbWAETHg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:07:36 -0500 Received: from atlrel8.hp.com ([156.153.255.206]:18050 "EHLO atlrel8.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750982AbWAETHg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:07:36 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [ipw2200] add monitor and qos entries to Kconfig Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:07:32 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ipw2200] add monitor and qos entries to Kconfig Thread-Index: AcYSJ7Lqlb8ImIFJTSy364AHfZE3GAAAsi8g From: "Bonilla, Alejandro" To: "Andreas Happe" , Cc: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jan 2006 19:07:35.0272 (UTC) FILETIME=[4980F680:01C6122B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2425 Lines: 69 Hi, I believe that people had decided not to incorporate this feature. Basically the IPW2200 will get too many firmware restarts on rfmon, making the feature unusable. I don't think we want this option at all so far. (Until there's a valid fix for the problem) Alejandro Bonilla |-----Original Message----- |From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org |[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Happe |Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:40 PM |To: jketreno@linux.intel.com |Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |Subject: Re: [ipw2200] add monitor and qos entries to Kconfig | |I have made a stupid copy&paste error: QoS option is named IPW_QOS not |IPW2200_MONITOR. Spotted by Daniel Paschka, thanks. | |Add the following config entries for the ipw2200 driver to |drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | * IPW2200_MONITOR | enables Monitor mode | * IPW_QOS | enables QoS feature - this is under development right now, |so it depends |upon EXPERIMENTAL | |Signed-off-by: Andreas Happe |--- drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig.orig 2006-01-05 |18:30:10.000000000 +0100 |+++ drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2006-01-05 |18:30:13.000000000 +0100 |@@ -217,6 +217,19 @@ config IPW2200 | say M here and read |. The module | will be called ipw2200.ko. | |+config IPW2200_MONITOR |+ bool "Enable promiscuous mode" |+ depends on IPW2200 |+ ---help--- |+ Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the |ipw2200 driver. |+ With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to |+ promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor |mode. While in this |+ mode, no packets can be sent. |+ |+config IPW_QOS |+ bool "Enable QoS support" |+ depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL |+ | config IPW_DEBUG | bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module." | depends on IPW2200 |- |To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe |linux-kernel" in |the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org |More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/