Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] d80211: remove poorly documented ieee80211_hw extra_hdr_room flag

From: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:04:05 +0200

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:45, 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. 

Ok, nice. Do you want to do a patch or should I do?

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Greetings Michael.