Re: Question to devs: ipw2200 w/ RADIOTAP/PROMISCUOUS

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:44:34AM -0800, James Ketrenos wrote:
> They are not a part of any formal testing plan;

Actually, that's too bad. There should be some formal testing to make
sure that the code at least *compiles* and *loads* and *captures*.

> so we don't really know
> how many people are using them, how stable they are for those users,
> or
> whether having them enabled negatively impacts non-users of those
> features.

It looks to me (as a Wireshark developer and user) that these features
seem to work fine, once you have gone through the build process,
especially since it seems to change from time to time.

> So -- there is no quantifiable reason not to enable those features in
> the packages you build.  I assume that some users are using the
> radiotap
> and promiscuous modes (I tend to always edit them to be enabled on all
> of my installs) and we haven't seen an influx of issues since their
> introduction.
>
> I think toggling the default to =y in non .0 versions would be fine.

> Toggling to =y in the stable releases could (theoretically) cause a
> user
> some grief if there was ever a problem and they tried to resolve it
> through Intel Customer Support vs. through the myriad of web forums
> and
> mailing lists.  Even that, however, is likely pretty low risk.  If we
> see lots of problems emerge as a result, you could always toggle them
> back to =n.

How about turning on CONFIG_IPW2200_MONITOR, CONFIG_IPW2200_RADIOTAP,
CONFIG_IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS by default in the official build? So if there
are some hidden problems they can be found and eliminated early before
the next .0 version? If it turns out to create problems that are getting
over your head you may disable the stuff again, but as a user who has
been using radiotap first with 2100, then with 2200 and now with 3945
I must admit that I haven't noticed any real problems once I managed to
build and load the modules.

How about that approach?

 ciao
    Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                         <[email protected]>
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