Re: ieee80211_tx_status: headroom too small

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 10:30 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> 
> > > > 4 actually, wasn't there some cases where the header could have an odd
> > > > number of bytes and would require 3 bytes for alignment?
> > > 
> > > Hm, is there? I thought they changed the 11s draft to no longer have
> > > that.
> > 
> > Well 2 is fine in that case, (I was basing my comment on something said on this mailinglist
> > a long time ago). :)
> 
> However, it really all depends on the hardware too ... Maybe we should
> put more of the logic into drivers, and have mac80211 only export its
> required headroom?
> 
> Or maybe we should just not bother with having drivers do the alignment
> any more -- mac80211 does that now and it only does it if necessary
> (i.e. not on powerpc/x86)

I think you mean the RX alignment, while I am talking about the TX alignment.
Beacons and some othe frames must be 4-byte alignment because the wireleless
hardware requires it.

Ivo