From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 06/11] mac80211: remove HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:01:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708232301.17562.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070823164523.418272000@sipsolutions.net>
On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:45:07 Johannes Berg wrote:
> longer relies on HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID either this removes it, changes
> the key index to be an integer in all places and makes the full
> range of the value available to drivers.
Why's that needed? It increases the tx control struct size,
which is created and destroyed with every packet.
Isn't 127 keys enough? If not, probably do a s16. But I think
an int if overkill.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 16:45 [RFC 00/11] mac80211 updates Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 01/11] mac80211: renumber and document the hardware flags Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 02/11] mac80211: document a lot more Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 03/11] wireless networking: move frame inline functions to generic header Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 04/11] mac80211: yet more documentation Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 05/11] mac80211: remove tx info sw_retry_attempt member Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 06/11] mac80211: remove HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 21:01 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-08-24 10:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 07/11] mac80211: print out wiphy name instead of master device Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 08/11] mac80211: ignore key index on pairwise key (WEP only) Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 09/11] mac80211, iwlwifi: remove atheros turbo modes Johannes Berg
2007-08-24 0:37 ` [RFC 09/11 v2] " Johannes Berg
2007-08-24 8:00 ` [RFC 09/11] " Zhu Yi
2007-08-24 10:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-27 0:47 ` Zhu Yi
2007-08-27 10:49 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 10/11] mac80211: fix warnings introduced by the doc patches Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:45 ` [RFC 11/11] mac80211 maintainership Johannes Berg
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