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| author | Sujith Manoharan | 2014-02-06 10:22:55 +0530 |
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| committer | John W. Linville | 2014-02-12 15:36:04 -0500 |
| commit | 9e495a2603334f9c8fcc6802300c22fc8a0eae02 (patch) | |
| tree | e26922f0ccd4fb01bcaad53500f69977494e4fdc /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig | |
| parent | 482b30b653e2be8aa1bf70b7aaac56ff0aeb070c (diff) | |
ath9k: Remove ath9k rate control
There is no benefit in retaining the legacy rate control module
in the driver codebase.
It is known to be buggy and has less than optimal performance
in real-world environments compared with minstrel. The only
reason that it was kept when we made the switch to minstrel
as default was that it showed higher throughput numbers in a
clean/ideal environment.
This is no longer the case and minstrel can push ath9k to
the same throughput levels. In TCP, with 3-stream cards, more than
295 Mbps can be obtained in open air, with 2-stream cards,
210 Mbps is easily reached. To test performance issues,
instead of using a broken rate control module, it is better
to use the fixed-rate interface provided by mac80211 anyway.
The ath9k RC has not received any bug fixes in years and is
just bit-rotting away - this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig index 7b96b3e5712d..8fcc029a76a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig @@ -120,18 +120,6 @@ config ATH9K_WOW This option enables Wake on Wireless LAN support for certain cards. Currently, AR9462 is supported. -config ATH9K_LEGACY_RATE_CONTROL - bool "Atheros ath9k rate control" - depends on ATH9K - default n - ---help--- - Say Y, if you want to use the ath9k specific rate control - module instead of minstrel_ht. Be warned that there are various - issues with the ath9k RC and minstrel is a more robust algorithm. - Note that even if this option is selected, "ath9k_rate_control" - has to be passed to mac80211 using the module parameter, - ieee80211_default_rc_algo. - config ATH9K_RFKILL bool "Atheros ath9k rfkill support" if EXPERT depends on ATH9K |