On Tuesday 10 October 2006 09:45, David Kimdon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Monday 09 October 2006 19:03, David Kimdon wrote: > > > This flag is unused by all in tree drivers. Furthermore, the way that > > > it is documented is not consistent with the way it is actually used by > > > ieee80211.c. The original attempt appears to be something to do with > > > adding extra header room for low-level drivers which need to pad the > > > IEEE 802.11 header (example: Atheros). > > > > What about not removing it, but extending it. > > Sure, I would be happy with that. For Atheros it will be '2' to > ensure that we can properly align the packet in the tx path without > needing to realloc. > adm8211 needs this too to avoid realloc and possibly failing and dropping the packet. (except adm8211 needs closer to about 30 bytes of extra room to fit its hardware tx header)
Thanks, -Michael Wu
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