Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:1757 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752237AbYFKLDL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:03:11 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so722642and.103 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890806110403nddfca7cn66b91a938919e1f0@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080611_130335_439286_2A0BC0E4) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:03:10 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Tomas Winkler" Subject: Re: [compat-masters] Backported MQ requirement on 802.11n for older kernels Cc: "Johannes Berg" , linux-wireless , "John W. Linville" , compat-masters@lists.madwifi.org, "Tim Gardner" , "Ron Rindjunsky" In-Reply-To: <43e72e890806102136jb8e695fla98a8594dde14396@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <43e72e890806080855p284f85brd0ff1f1dfce96bf8@mail.gmail.com> <1213001797.698.57.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890806090201q55bff8e3m694121ebd4befee6@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890806090325y5a1aebadq68204695044f4b6f@mail.gmail.com> <1ba2fa240806101657w14599f30x67f58acbc7fe9e80@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890806102132q1aaba42ehd76bdd30b8d4080a@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890806102136jb8e695fla98a8594dde14396@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tomas Winkler wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:53 +0300, Ron Rindjunsky wrote: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I just finished trying to backport CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE >>>>>>> > requirement for 802.11n to older kernels by relying on the old >>>>>>> > internal mac80211 hacked up MQ support. I've tested the build on >>>>>>> > 2.6.22, 2.6.23, and 2.6.24. Let me know if you get to test this, >>>>>>> > particularly iwl4965 using 11n on 2.6.22. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> in config.mk you put MAC80211_QOS=m, and i guess that the intention was to put >>>>>>> CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS=m >>>>>>> if this is the case then the compilation fails >>>>>> >>>>>> It should be "y" >>>>>> >>>>>> johannes >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Danke >>>> >>>> OK found some more issues. v4.2 pushed out and new tarball >>>> regenerated. This has been tested by Intel on 802.11n on iwl4965. >>> >>> I couldn't make wme.c compiled for kernels > 22 unless I've added the >>> else statement bellow into confg.mk >>> You've reported that it worked for you so what did I wrong? >>> >>> ifeq ($(CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE),) >>> $(warning "WARNING: You are running a kernel >= 2.6.23, you should >>> enable CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE for 802.11n support") >>> else >>> CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS=y >> >> Well this is forcing this option on kernels where it probably was >> available. I don't recall where we added this but I was relying on >> your .config. We forced this for older kernels as we are providing the >> infrastructure within the code but for newer kernels you need MQ >> support and NET_SCHED. If we force enable it and if those options are >> not enabled it'll fail. This is why we have this big fat warning if MQ >> is detected as disabled for >= 2.6.23. >> >> Let me know what you think. > > OK I guess we should just enable it if MQ is enabled, point taken. > Committed and pushed, thanks. Actually no, take that back. CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS should probably just be enabled if NET_SCHED is present. Johannes -- why do we have the requirement for NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE on CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS? My current config doesn't have it it and CONFIG_MAC80211_QOS still works right now enabled. Of course the driver I'm testing doesn't have 11n though. Shouldn't we just make MAC80211_QOS depend on NET_SCHED and figure out we can't support 11n based on NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE? Luis