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From: "Ron Rindjunsky" <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: handling Qdisc issues
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> >  > John, Johannes, what will be the preferred way to continue? it seems
> >  > that Ivo and Michael agree that the adjustments needed can be inserted
> >  > quite fast. would you like to re-base and merge the current RFC as a
> >  > patch and fix things on top of it, or to merge all the fixes and push
> >  > it at once?
> >
> >  I'd like to take a look at it first, though if you tested it and it
> >  works we can just as well put it into -testing, it can't really be worse
> >  than what we have now.
> >
> >  What I'd like to do though is just make mac80211 depend on
> >  NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE (or select it if possible?) so we don't have to
> >  bother with all the ifdefs. OTOH that'll totally break compat so Luis?NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE
>
> I've been reviewing this for a bit now and I think if we make mac80211
> depend on NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE and just have compat.diff patch the
> sources with ifdefs where needed. The file include/linux/netdevice.h
> already provides hints as to how to port over some calls but won't be
> sure until we test this. Seems we need a new patch for this anyway.
> Once posted I can try to port on compat-wireless.
>
>  Luis

thanks Luis.
Johannes, i guess it's back to previous mail - should we put this into
testing and let us all patch on top of it (with a heads-up notice of
course to everyone) ?
Ron