From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Vladimir Kondratiev <vkondra@mail.ru>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: generic 802.11 stack
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:10:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907121019.733cc7aa.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409072141.58893.vkondra@mail.ru>
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:41:54 +0300
Vladimir Kondratiev <vkondra@mail.ru> wrote:
> This should be done in generic way. This information used to communicate
> berween particular driver and generic stack. For example, Rx PHY info and Tx
> status info should be used for in-stack generic rate scaling algorithm.
>
> To complicate it a bit, cb[] is only 48 bytes long. PHY info may easily exceed
> this size, so it's better to allocate something and free it in destructor.
>
> But again, point is this structure should be generic since it is used by
> stack.
TCP does the same thing, and if space is an issue you can use
pointers in the cb[] area, other subsystems do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 18:11 [RFC] acx100 inclusion in mainline; generic 802.11 stack Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-31 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-31 19:14 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-08-31 21:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-08-31 22:06 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-01 2:22 ` Jouni Malinen
2004-09-02 20:24 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-02 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-03 17:37 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-03 20:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-06 18:13 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-06 18:57 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-06 19:30 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-06 20:09 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-06 23:04 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-07 1:23 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-07 4:32 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-07 6:47 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-07 17:22 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-07 17:32 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-07 18:06 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-07 18:08 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-07 18:41 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-07 19:10 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-07 19:54 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-09 2:40 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-09 4:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-07 17:03 ` [RFC] acx100 inclusion in mainline; " greg chesson
2004-09-07 17:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-07 18:14 ` greg chesson
2004-09-07 18:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 7:38 ` jamal
2004-09-08 16:02 ` greg chesson
2004-09-08 19:51 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-08 20:52 ` greg chesson
2004-09-08 21:54 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-09 17:06 ` greg chesson
2004-09-12 18:03 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-13 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13 0:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-15 17:57 ` James Ketrenos
2004-09-13 0:14 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-13 5:39 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-13 5:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13 23:21 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-14 5:14 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-14 5:35 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-14 23:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-15 0:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 0:51 ` greg chesson
2004-09-15 1:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 3:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-15 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 3:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-15 5:44 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-15 14:47 ` greg chesson
2004-09-15 15:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-15 16:48 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-15 17:06 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-28 12:20 ` [RFC] acx100 inclusion in mainline; " Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-28 20:29 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-29 0:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-29 7:10 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-09-29 8:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-01 14:30 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-10-01 22:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-01 23:25 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-10-02 0:11 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 21:19 ` [Acx100-devel] Re: [RFC] acx100 inclusion in mainline; " Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-09 3:31 ` Sam Leffler
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