Re: [PATCH] mac80211: partially fix skb->cb use

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step
> from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now,
> disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing,
> will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software
> requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is
> not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
> This fixes wireless. At least it works on my WPA network, I haven't
> actually tested a broken kernel.

This patch fixes my broken 2.6.27-rc1 kernel using b43, which had not worked 
since the new networking stuff was merged.

I'm pretty discouraged that a change that has such an impact on wireless never 
made it to wireless-testing, where this kind of defect should have been found 
and fixed long before it ever got into mainline.

Larry