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From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: optimise ieee80211_get_hdrlen
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:48:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329154848.GB3906@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175166447.8807.38.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:07:27PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:11 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> > Is this case even used anywhere? Looks like unnecessary optimization at
> > the cost of making the source code more difficult to understand and
> > modify.
> 
> Not sure. I tested in userspace with a program that simply tried all
> possible values.

At least originally, there were no need for processing any control
frames which is why asked this.. I haven't looked whether any of the new
hardware drivers have needs for processing them.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 16:01 [PATCH] mac80211: optimise ieee80211_get_hdrlen Johannes Berg
2007-03-28 19:11 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-03-29 11:07   ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-29 15:48     ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-04-27 15:10   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-28 13:40     ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-28 13:58       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-28 14:35         ` Jiri Benc

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