From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Nikolai ZHUBR <zhubr@mail.ru>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ieee80211_tx_status: headroom too small
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910310951.30016.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256967967.3555.71.camel@johannes.local>
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 00:56 +0300, Nikolai ZHUBR wrote:
> > Friday, October 30, 2009, 11:59:01 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > >>
> > >> ieee80211_tx_status: headroom too small
> >
> > > What driver are you using?
> >
> > Ah, sorry, forgot to mention. It is rt61pci (RaLink mini-PCI card)
>
> Ok. I looked at the problem and it's a very odd problem -- mac80211
> should always reserve enough headroom in buffers it passes to the
> driver. Does rt61pci somehow realloc frames?
It does use skb_push. but will/should always stay within the limits
of rt2x00dev->hw->extra_tx_headroom. Although I just realize there
might be a situation where it needs to align the frame to a 4-byte boundary,
it could exceed that amount. :(
Ivo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-30 20:00 ieee80211_tx_status: headroom too small Nikolai ZHUBR
2009-10-30 20:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-30 20:49 ` Re[2]: " Nikolai ZHUBR
2009-10-30 20:59 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-30 21:56 ` Re[2]: " Nikolai ZHUBR
2009-10-31 5:46 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 8:51 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2009-10-31 8:56 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 8:59 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-10-31 9:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 9:30 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-10-31 9:34 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 9:44 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-10-31 10:03 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 10:17 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-10-31 10:23 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 10:33 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-10-31 14:24 ` Re[2]: " Nikolai ZHUBR
2009-10-31 15:35 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-31 17:42 ` Re[4]: " Nikolai ZHUBR
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2009-11-21 1:30 David Ellingsworth
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