From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: recompute mac_len at the beginning of the rx path
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:27:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120929112757.GB3022@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347712461-9031-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org>
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 02:34:21 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> It is possible that the mac_len is not properly exported because of strange
> device configuration (this behaviour has been observed when using batman-adv on
> top of a vlan interface). Therefore it is needed to explicitly recompute it at
> the very beginning of the rx path
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Instead of merging this patch I think that the best approach would be to fix the
problem in VLAN code in the kernel.
I'll try to send a patch to netdev.
Cheers,
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 12:34 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: recompute mac_len at the beginning of the rx path Antonio Quartulli
2012-09-29 11:27 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2012-10-01 20:56 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-01 20:53 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC] batman-adv: dirty hack to recompute mac_len in " Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-02 5:16 ` Marek Lindner
2012-10-02 9:37 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-06 16:45 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-10-14 12:46 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] " Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-14 18:53 ` Marek Lindner
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