From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:29:15 +0100
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	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 16:27:32 Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > What about simply _not_ failing the initialization of mac80211, if no
> > rc algo is available? I mean, we can just use a fixed rate we get through
> > WEXT and stuff. Simply start at 1M on init in that case and stay at a fixed
> > 1M until the user sets a different fixed rate through WEXT.
> 
> Not sure. I think I'd prefer not to have all special cases all over, I'd
> much prefer a new rc80211_none or so then.

That's fine with me, too. It's just a different implementation of the same idea.

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Greetings Michael.