Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2016-04-05

Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: add NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS hw flag

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2016-02-23 14:29:31

On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 11:01 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
HW/driver should set NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS flag in case
require aligned skbs to four-byte boundaries.
This affect only TX direction.

Padding is added after ieee80211_hdr, before IV/LLC.
I'm still not super happy with how invasive these patches are.

Perhaps we could live with this being done only for the fast-xmit case?

johannes
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