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From: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:01:33 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: make CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y default
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:22 -0800, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> Increases mac80211 memory use by about 95K.
>>
>> At least Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch Linux already enable
>> this in their default kernels.
>
> *shrug*
>
> I guess I don't really see a problem with this, although only a small
> subset of drivers really supports it. Anyone really wanting to build for
> a small system will probably turn it off anyway.
>
> OTOH, if distros enable it, I also don't see much point in changing
> it ;-)

Heh, good point. I guess this is an attempt to elevate mesh from the
status of "2nd-class citizen" into the realm of "good enough to
default =y" :)

If it's all the same to you I'll go ahead and submit this as a PATCH then.

-- 
Thomas