Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f20.google.com ([209.85.219.20]:43817 "EHLO mail-ew0-f20.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751511AbZAVOqA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:46:00 -0500 Received: by ewy13 with SMTP id 13so2541229ewy.13 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:45:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090122141734.GA3646@tuxdriver.com> References: <200901151734.46144.gbburkhardt@verizon.net> <200901202238.08756.gbburkhardt@verizon.net> <20090121151435.GB3643@tuxdriver.com> <69e28c910901211022j7f9c67dfv6392ce043dcff522@mail.gmail.com> <20090121191141.GA14710@tuxdriver.com> <69e28c910901211133n25c1a151nc9ca7172a9de7d3a@mail.gmail.com> <40f31dec0901212032j65371fc6j5fcc1952f841d2ef@mail.gmail.com> <20090122134958.GA27560@tuxdriver.com> <1232633075.4224.6.camel@johannes.local> <20090122141734.GA3646@tuxdriver.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:45:58 +0100 Message-ID: <69e28c910901220645l66b76875jbbf1cc74afe17aac@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090122_154617_157334_1D4A285A) Subject: Re: poor performance with ath5k; reverting to ath_pci From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?= To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Johannes Berg , Nick Kossifidis , Glenn Burkhardt , Bob Copeland , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:04:35PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:49 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:32:55AM +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote: >> > > 2009/1/21 Stefanik G=E1bor : >> > > > >> > > > I think EMBEDDED is for options that replace full-featured Lin= ux >> > > > components with dumbed-down, "low-profile" equivalents (like S= LOB) - >> > > > PID vs. minstrel is more like SLAB vs. SLUB. >> > > > >> > > > G=E1bor >> > > > >> > > >> > > Minstrell performs very well even on embedded devices, i don't t= hink >> > > it's that heavy compared to pid. >> > >> > I think his point was that people should be able to select multipl= e >> > algorithms without having to select EMBEDDED. >> >> The reason it was originally under EMBEDDED is that this allows you = to >> turn off _all_ algorithms, and that breaks, but might be desirable i= f >> you have a system where you know you're using iwlagn or ath9k only w= hich >> have their own algorithms. > > I see. But currently it limits you to only one generic algorithm, th= e > one chosen as the default. I don't think that was really the intent? > I think RC_NONE should depend on embedded, but not the chooser itself. --=20 Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html