wlan_ratectl (was Re: firmware discussion)

[Johannes Hofmann]

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Joe Talbott <josepht at cstone.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:50:33AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>     Well, I guess it comes down to how difficult it would be to integrate
>>     the ratectl we have into the new infrastructure, and whether there are
>>     any plans in FreeBSDland to have an integrated ratectl.  If not then
>>     there is an argument for them adopting ours.
>> 
> 
> Converting the wpi driver I'm porting was not very difficult.  I don't
> like users of the half dozen or so wifi drivers we currently have
> losing the ratectl features we have.

Can the adaption to ratectl be done incrementally (driver by driver)
and have non-adapted drivers working without it?