Re: [stable] [PATCH] ath5k: drop warning on jumbo frames

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:09:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 03:26:27PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Jumbo frames are not supported, and if they are seen it is likely
> > a bogus frame so just silently discard them instead of warning on
> > them all time. Also, instead of dropping them immediately though
> > move the check *after* we check for all sort of frame errors. This
> > should enable us to discard these frames if the hardware picks
> > other bogus items first. Lets see if we still get those jumbo
> > counters increasing still with this.
> > 
> > Jumbo frames would happen if we tell hardware we can support
> > a small 802.11 chunks of DMA'd frame, hardware would split RX'd
> > frames into parts and we'd have to reconstruct them in software.
> > This is done with USB due to the bulk size but with ath5k we
> > already provide a good limit to hardware and this should not be
> > happening.
> > 
> > This is reported quite often and if it fills the logs then this
> > needs to be addressed and to avoid spurious reports.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c |   12 ++++++------
> 
> This is now upstream, but doesn't seem to apply to any of the .32, .33,
> or .34 trees.  If you want it there, please send me a backported version
> of it.

Thanks Greg. I cannot address this right now so I've stashed it here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/stable-pending

If anyone has free time please feel free to address the backport and
any other listed above (just one more).

  Luis