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From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: use 2 spare TX blocks for GEM cipher
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:55:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303214105.1988.679.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimtZaGTcouKvKS+cEfU=G6c6b775w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 08:03 +0300, Guy Eilam wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 15:37 +0300, Guy Eilam wrote:
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/tx.c
> >> index db9e47e..2c79b6e 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/tx.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/tx.c
> >> @@ -135,12 +135,10 @@ static int wl1271_tx_allocate(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 extra,
> >>       u32 len;
> >>       u32 total_blocks;
> >>       int id, ret = -EBUSY;
> >> -     u32 spare_blocks;
> >> +     u32 spare_blocks = wl->tx_spare_blocks;
> >>
> >>       if (unlikely(wl->quirks & WL12XX_QUIRK_USE_2_SPARE_BLOCKS))
> >>               spare_blocks = 2;
> >> -     else
> >> -             spare_blocks = 1;
> >
> > Do we still need the quirk now? Wouldn't it be nicer to change the
> > wl->tx_spare_blocks value directly instead?
> >
> 
> We still need the quirk because if we change the tx_spare_blocks
> directly, then the
> we also need to have a tx_spare_blocks_previously member so that the KEY_GEM
> code will know the value to set in KEY_REMOVAL.
> Do you really think that it is better?

No, indeed this sounds more complicated, so you can keep it as it is.

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-03 12:37 [PATCH] wl12xx: use 2 spare TX blocks for GEM cipher Guy Eilam
2011-04-08 17:38 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-04-12  5:03   ` Guy Eilam
2011-04-19 11:55     ` Luciano Coelho [this message]

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