netdev - Re: ZD1211RW unaligned accesses...

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Message-Id: <1196422427.6058.179.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:33:47 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Shaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@...mail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dsd@...too.org,
	kune@...ne-taler.de
Subject: Re: ZD1211RW unaligned accesses...


> Chances are it does make progress however we may still have the
> general wireless/IP stack alignment issue that we are still discussing.

Yeah, it's still on my list. I'll make a patch to WARN_ON unaligned data
in a packet... although this is a bit complicated. ath5k actually had a
bug with this where they simply ignored the hardware-added padding in
QoS frames initially which would result in "corrupted" data...

johannes

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