Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [ipw2200] add monitor and qos entries to Kconfig | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:07:32 -0600 | From | "Bonilla, Alejandro" <> |
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Hi,
I believe that people had decided not to incorporate this feature. Basically the IPW2200 will get too many firmware restarts on rfmon, making the feature unusable. I don't think we want this option at all so far. (Until there's a valid fix for the problem)
Alejandro Bonilla
|-----Original Message----- |From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org |[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Happe |Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:40 PM |To: jketreno@linux.intel.com |Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |Subject: Re: [ipw2200] add monitor and qos entries to Kconfig | |I have made a stupid copy&paste error: QoS option is named IPW_QOS not |IPW2200_MONITOR. Spotted by Daniel Paschka, thanks. | |Add the following config entries for the ipw2200 driver to |drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | * IPW2200_MONITOR | enables Monitor mode | * IPW_QOS | enables QoS feature - this is under development right now, |so it depends |upon EXPERIMENTAL | |Signed-off-by: Andreas Happe <andreashappe@snikt.net> |--- drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig.orig 2006-01-05 |18:30:10.000000000 +0100 |+++ drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2006-01-05 |18:30:13.000000000 +0100 |@@ -217,6 +217,19 @@ config IPW2200 | say M here and read |<file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module | will be called ipw2200.ko. | |+config IPW2200_MONITOR |+ bool "Enable promiscuous mode" |+ depends on IPW2200 |+ ---help--- |+ Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the |ipw2200 driver. |+ With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to |+ promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor |mode. While in this |+ mode, no packets can be sent. |+ |+config IPW_QOS |+ bool "Enable QoS support" |+ depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL |+ | config IPW_DEBUG | bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module." | depends on IPW2200 |- |To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe |linux-kernel" in |the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org |More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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