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From: Joe Talbott <josepht at cstone.net>
Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Hofmann <johannes.hofmann at gmx.de>,
	kernel at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Subject: Re: wlan_ratectl (was Re: firmware discussion)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:28:32 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:40:44PM +0000, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> 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? 

That should be possible.

Joe