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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>,
	rt2x00 Users List <users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rt2x00-users] [PATCH v3 0/4] Further L2 padding fixes.
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:36:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912031936.12557.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14add3d10912030132r251779efq10dc08768aefd8c1@mail.gmail.com>

> > * L2PAD is only present for data frame and an easy way to check for that is
> > * to compare header_length with 24 bytes.
> > */
> > #define L2PAD_SIZE(__header) \
> >      ((__header)<24 ? 0 : ((4 - ((__header)%4))%4))
> >
> 
> That depends on what the purpose of the L2PAD_SIZE macro is going to
> be. At the moment
> the intention is to have L2PAD_SIZE compute the number of l2pad bytes
> necessary, if a
> payload is present. Detection on whether actually a payload is present
> and whether the
> outcome of this macro should be used should be at the call-sites of this macro.

I personally prefer the current version, I don't see a valid reason for
L2PAD_SIZE to depend on the header size. The caller should check if
the payload is present and L2 padding is required.

Ivo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-03 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-30 21:08 [PATCH v3 0/4] Further L2 padding fixes Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-30 21:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] rt2x00: " Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-30 21:08   ` [PATCH v3 2/4] rt2x00: Remove SKBDESC_L2_PADDED flag Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-30 21:08     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] rt2x00: Reorganize L2 padding inserting function Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-30 21:08       ` [PATCH v3 4/4] rt2x00: Only remove L2 padding in received frames if there is payload Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-01 19:16         ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 21:08           ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-01 21:57             ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 22:09               ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-02  7:52                 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2009-12-01 21:58         ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 19:13       ` [PATCH v3 3/4] rt2x00: Reorganize L2 padding inserting function Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 21:05         ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-01 21:58       ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 19:07     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] rt2x00: Remove SKBDESC_L2_PADDED flag Ivo van Doorn
2009-12-01 19:07   ` [PATCH v3 1/4] rt2x00: Further L2 padding fixes Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-30 23:46 ` [rt2x00-users] [PATCH v3 0/4] " Benoit PAPILLAULT
2009-12-01 21:30   ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-02  9:54     ` Benoit PAPILLAULT
2009-12-03  9:32       ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-12-03 18:36         ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2009-12-03 21:36           ` Benoit PAPILLAULT
2009-12-04  7:53             ` Ivo Van Doorn

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