Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2593 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965826AbXHaSop (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:44:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:09:33 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: ian , wireless Subject: Re: letting drivers choose their preferred rate scale Message-ID: <20070831180933.GB3352@tuxdriver.com> References: <46CF95F9.6090802@telenet.be> <1188028962.9529.13.camel@johannes.berg> <46D01D57.6060806@telenet.be> <1188211749.6756.11.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1188211749.6756.11.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:49:09PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:15 +0200, ian wrote: > > > I reread the discussion carefully and can't find any specific > > comments on the patch which for clarity I will reproduce below. > > Then I guess I remember wrong and the comment was raised in another > thread. The problem we have is that once any rate control algorithm is > loaded, it will be default for any future drivers, which is often > inappropriate. Hence, it would be great if > hw->preferred_rate_control==NULL would indicate "use default" where > "default" would be set to "simple" to start with but also changeable. > (although the change functionality could just be not usable from > userspace for now) I ACK this approach. Anyone have a patch hacked-up to post? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com