Re: [PATCH] ath5k: Updated padding stuff for the RX and TX side. TX side has been 100%

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:22:39AM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Benoit PAPILLAULT
> <benoit.papillault@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > frames. To me, the bug we have seen when receiving a ACK frame in
> > monitor mode was not because "ACK is a small control frame", it was
> > because the header length we computed was smaller than what the hardware
> > considered.
> 
> It's because data frames have a payload and ACKs do not.
> 
> > To reply to Bob as well, we need to compute the number of padded bytes +
> > the position at which the padding occurs, so proper "header" length is
> > required.
> 
> Well, anyway John already picked up your earlier (better, IMHO) patch.
> Now we just need to fix the tx descriptors :)

Based on that comment, I'm dropping this version of the patch.
Feel free to submit additional patches to implement whatever might
be missing now.

John
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