Re: wlan_ratectl (was Re: firmware discussion)

[Joe Talbott <josepht@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:12:50PM +0100, Alex Hornung wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, I think it would be quite a mistake dropping our
> ratectl. We'd be losing quite some functionality by adopting FreeBSD's way
> here, which just has ratectl for ath as Joe pointed out.
> 
> If Joe would be willing to switch the newly ported drivers to ratectl, that
> would great. I don't think Sephe has much time lately, but maybe someone can
> drop him an email.

I've talked to Sephe and he is willing to answer questions I have
regarding the ratectl work he did.

One important note is that we (DragonFly BSD) will be porting drivers
other than ath so doing the ratectl work will not be a huge added
effort since I'll be mucking around in the drivers anyway.

Joe