huge madwifi update - use a madwifi-ng-refcount snapshot as base, includes lots of bugfixes and performance enhancements

git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@7211 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/package/madwifi/patches/105-ratectl_attach.patch b/package/madwifi/patches/105-ratectl_attach.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..512bda7d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/madwifi/patches/105-ratectl_attach.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -urN madwifi-ng-refcount-r2313-20070505.old/net80211/ieee80211_rate.c madwifi-ng-refcount-r2313-20070505.dev/net80211/ieee80211_rate.c
+--- madwifi-ng-refcount-r2313-20070505.old/net80211/ieee80211_rate.c	2007-04-04 23:25:20.000000000 +0200
++++ madwifi-ng-refcount-r2313-20070505.dev/net80211/ieee80211_rate.c	2007-05-13 18:17:55.368151800 +0200
+@@ -100,8 +100,18 @@
+ 		ieee80211_load_module(buf);
+ 
+ 	if (!ratectls[id].attach) {
+-		printk(KERN_ERR "Error loading module \"%s\"\n", buf);
+-		return NULL;
++		/* pick the first available rate control module */
++		printk(KERN_INFO "Rate control module \"%s\" not available\n", buf);
++		for (id = 0; id < IEEE80211_RATE_MAX; id++) {
++			if (ratectls[id].attach)
++				break;
++		}
++		if (!ratectls[id].attach) {
++			printk(KERN_ERR "No rate control module available");
++			return NULL;
++		} else {
++			printk(KERN_INFO "Using \"%s\" instead.\n", module_names[id]);
++		}
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	ctl = ratectls[id].attach(sc);