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mac80211: give warning if building w/out rate ctrl algorithm
authorAndres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:18:47 +0000 (19:18 -0500)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:09:40 +0000 (17:09 -0500)
commitacce27dd03ab9bb6b5a849c0ab0248c53cb81300
treef2c483da2b117cc708d7d7bce355012a27e3cc67
parent485e87e286cf8d2c8e66c009e3a95e1b4d4fd233
mac80211: give warning if building w/out rate ctrl algorithm

I discovered that if EMBEDDED=y, one can accidentally build a mac80211 stack
and drivers w/ no rate control algorithm.  For drivers like RTL8187 that don't
supply their own RC algorithms, this will cause ieee80211_register_hw to
fail (making the driver unusable).

This will tell kconfig to provide a warning if no rate control algorithms
have been selected.  That'll at least warn the user; users that know that
their drivers supply a rate control algorithm can safely ignore the
warning, and those who don't know (or who expect to be using multiple
drivers) can select a default RC algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/Kconfig