Re: [PATCH 08/13] o11s: other changes in mac80211 for mesh interface support

[Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 02:05 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > +int ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen(struct ieee80211s_hdr *meshhdr)
> > +{
> > +	int ae = meshhdr->flags & IEEE80211S_FLAGS_AE;
> > +	/* 7.1.3.5a.2 */
> > +	switch (ae) {
> > +	case 0:
> > +		return 5;
> > +	case 1:
> > +		return 11;
> > +	case 2:
> > +		return 17;
> > +	case 3:
> > +		return 23;
> > +	default:
> > +		return 5;
> > +	}
> > +}
> 
> What the hell? This is utterly horrible! Can that be changed in the spec
> so the header is always a multiple of four bytes? :)

Well it actually can be changed as it is still a draft... Guess you just
need to convince a few hardware manufacturers that the change is in
their interest..

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Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.



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Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.