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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:17:46 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@...il.com> To: "Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, francois.valenduc@...ablenet.be, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11144] New: dhcp doesn't work with iwl4965 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote: > David Miller wrote: >> >> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> >> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:25:48 +0200 >> >>> We can't fit them into the cb together, I don't see a way to >>> shrink ieee80211_tx_info. >>> >>> Maybe one of the wireless folks can suggest something? Is it >>> really necessary to pass the full struct ieee80211_tx_info >>> through the qdisc layer, or could the struct be split? It >>> needs to find a way to co-exist peacefully with qdiscs' >>> skb->cb usage. >> >> This is another area that got mangled up in the ->select_queue() >> conversion of the WME bits, but in another aspect this problem >> existed beforehand as well. >> >> Specifically, when RX packets get requeued out to transmit in >> the code in net/mac80211/rx.c that resends packets back out the >> wireless device by setting a bit in the SKB CB then calling >> dev_queue_xmit(). >> >> That's completely illegal :-) > > It seems its doing even more illegal things that were also > present previously. The ieee80211_master_start_xmit function > expects to get a valid IEEE80211_SKB_CB, which means it > expects it to survive through the entire qdisc layer. I'm > not sure how packets get to the master device from the > subifs though, so I might be wrong. > Isn't this time to make 802.11 native? Tomas. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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