On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:04:19AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

quoted

You can currently only get away living without it if you are just
using iwl3945 or iwl4965 as they provide their own rate control
algorithms. In the future if other vendor drivers are added with their
own rate control algorithm this list grows.

FWIW, I would like to see those algorithms be supported as part of
mac80211 and not be internal like iwlwifi hacked them on, and have some
sort of feature negotiation between the hardware and the RC algorithm
when choosing one.

Do we need it as complicated as it is today?

Currently the infrastructure is:
- the default algorithm is built into mac80211
- other algorithms get into their own modules

The implementation of this complicated scheme is horrible
(just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new
algorithm will most likely not get it right at his first attempt.

Can we get one of either:
- all selected mac80211 algorithms are built into the mac80211 module or
- all selected mac80211 algorithms (including the default one) are in
  their own modules
?

It wouldn't make any difference today for the CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n case, 
but allows to make things less complicated and will make it easier to 
add additional algorithms.

I'll be glad to provide a patch if one of these is considered 
acceptable.

johannes

cu
Adrian

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