Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: add NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS hw flag
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2016-02-23 14:29:31
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