Return-path: Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com ([209.85.220.173]:44796 "EHLO mail-vc0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757299Ab3FFDmw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:42:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1370488216-11626-1-git-send-email-sujith@msujith.org> References: <1370488216-11626-1-git-send-email-sujith@msujith.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:42:51 +0900 Message-ID: (sfid-20130606_054256_166150_86682D43) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Use minstrel rate control by default From: Linus Torvalds To: Sujith Manoharan Cc: John Linville , Linux Wireless List , stable , Jouni Malinen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > > Change the default to minstrel which is more robust in such cases. Ack. Background for John: the renaming means that people who had the old broken default won't just silently continue to see their "default y" from their old defconfigs. So now you have to explicitly enable this by hand to get the fragile legacy rate control. Linus