netdev - Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc2-git] rndis_host: fix transfer size negotiation

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:29:18 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Network development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@...budubois.net>,
	jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc2-git] rndis_host:  fix transfer size
	negotiation

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:31:16PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> From: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@...budubois.net>
> 
> This patch should resolve a problem that's troubled support for
> some RNDIS peripherals.  It seems to have boiled down to using a
> variable to establish transfer size limits before it was assigned,
> which caused those devices to fallback to a default "jumbogram"
> mode we don't support.  Fix by assigning it earlier for RNDIS.

Any chance that something like this is appropriate for rndis_wlan?

John
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John W. Linville
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