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Commit c2ef355b authored by Andres Salomon's avatar Andres Salomon Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarAndres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 1da3f882
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