On 30 Mar 2010, at 16:27, Sascha Wildner wrote: > Am 30.03.2010 16:23, schrieb Rui Paulo: >> I'm unhappy with the ratectl stuff, really. I think it needs to be rewritten >> to cope with the changes to the ratectl algorithms from FreeBSD. The other >> route would be to ditch wlan_ratectl and keep everything in sync with >> FreeBSD. > > Rui, > > what would the latter route imply exactly?
rm -rf wlan_ratectl. :-) > > As far as I know wlan_ratectl(4) is currently working with almost all of our > wlan drivers. Would ditching it and going with FreeBSD's code exclusively > allow for that still in some way? No. But all the drivers need to be ported again from FreeBSD because of the net80211 stack update anyway. Keeping wlan_ratectl means: 1) port the drivers from FreeBSD 2) adapt the drivers to use wlan_ratectl We can probably do this (again), but this work will be useless if in 3 years from now the DragonFly network stack is outdated WRT to FreeBSD. Keeping the code in sync with FreeBSD means that in 3 years from now it will be easier to update DragonFly's wireless stack. This is a classical open source dilemma, actually (no maintainer). -- Rui Paulo
