From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, Markus Baier <Markus_Baier@web.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BISECTED] [PATCH v2 8/8] rt2x00: Properly request tx headroom for alignment operations.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:17:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091221191725.GF4979@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2FA1CF.1010903@gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:26:55PM +0100, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> On 12/21/09 07:33, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > My debugging shows that the headroom is 0 with the "patch". Without it,
> > the headroom is 17 (13 from IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM plus 4 from
> > RT2X00_ALIGN_SIZE).
> >
> > Perhaps non-zero headroom is not handled correctly?
> >
>
> Hmmm, perhaps the problem is that the headroom is not a multiple of 4.
> Can you check what happens when you set the extra_tx_headroom fixed to e.g. 20?
>
> The driver should be able to handle this, but maybe there is something wrong
> with the alignment.
For the record, I have dropped this patch. Please feel free to
resubmit a working version.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 21:44 [PATCH v2 0/8] Assorted fixes and cleanups for rt2x00 and mac80211 Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] rt2x00: Only initialize HT on rt2800 devices that support it Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] rt2x00: Remove unused variable frame_control from rt2x00mac_tx Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] rt2x00: Clean up use of rt2x00_intf_is_pci Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] rt2x00: Fix typo (lengt --> length) in rt2x00queue.c Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] rt2x00: Whitespace cleanup Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] rt2x00: Centralize setting of extra TX headroom requested by rt2x00 Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] mac80211: Add define for TX headroom reserved by mac80211 itself Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-23 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] rt2x00: Properly request tx headroom for alignment operations Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-24 17:19 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-24 19:12 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-24 20:04 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-25 19:47 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-25 21:29 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-25 21:48 ` John W. Linville
2009-12-20 15:42 ` [BISECTED] " Markus Baier
2009-12-20 20:20 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-21 0:45 ` Markus Baier
2009-12-21 6:33 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-12-21 16:26 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-21 19:17 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-12-22 0:22 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-22 5:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-12-22 8:13 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-22 10:55 ` Markus Baier
2009-12-22 14:18 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-22 15:03 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-11-23 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] mac80211: Add define for TX headroom reserved by mac80211 itself Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] rt2x00: Centralize setting of extra TX headroom requested by rt2x00 Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-24 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] rt2x00: Whitespace cleanup Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-23 22:18 ` [rt2x00-users] [PATCH v2 1/8] rt2x00: Only initialize HT on rt2800 devices that support it David Ellingsworth
2009-11-24 17:12 ` Ivo van Doorn
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