netdev - Re: wireless vs. alignment requirements

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:36:55 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	dsd@...too.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wireless vs. alignment requirements

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> I'd think that totally depends on the traffic. If you have a non-QoS AP
> with WPS upstream connection, then the traffic to stations will be
> four-byte aligned while the WPS upstream will be at a 2-byte-mod-4
> boundary. And you'll have all packets from stations come in aligned and
> all response packets from wherever come in as WPS.

OK, sounds like you'll just have to fix them up after DMA.

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