Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:35984 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757840AbXHALx3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:53:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Rate control over multiple devices From: Johannes Berg To: Jiri Benc Cc: "John W. Linville" , Andy Green , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, James Ketrenos In-Reply-To: <20070801134624.481eb856@griffin.suse.cz> References: <46AFB779.4040003@warmcat.com> <20070801004543.GD4719@tuxdriver.com> <1185960764.14279.2.camel@johannes.berg> <20070801134624.481eb856@griffin.suse.cz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7c+Q/uvf/VsPCV3jXPWP" Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:54:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1185969255.21901.11.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-7c+Q/uvf/VsPCV3jXPWP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:46 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > Exactly. This is one of things that should be solved in the patch > mentioned below. I suppose you mean this patch http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/2303 > > Apply the patch already? IIRC James made a pretty good one around that > > time to let the driver choose a default name as part of the hw structur= e > > it registers and it can be NULL for the default. > >=20 > > Of course, in a perfect world we'd have a 'default' rate control settin= g > > somewhere and apply that for drivers that have rate_control=3D=3DNULL, = while > > default would default to 'simple' to avoid the issue above. >=20 > I'd really like to see that in the patch. Seems to be a real issue. Except that we have no API for that (should be in cfg80211.) johannes --=-7c+Q/uvf/VsPCV3jXPWP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGsHRn/ETPhpq3jKURApJ9AJ4kFBXOiALvsBxTlYfuBUkopcNUDACeMEra XDuiVLhMDxNCHPkdR5McZ3o= =DqQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7c+Q/uvf/VsPCV3jXPWP--