Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11144] New: dhcp doesn't work with iwl4965

["François Valenduc" <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>]

Johannes Berg a =E9crit :
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:35 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>
>  =20
>>>> Isn't this time to make 802.11 native?
>>>>        =20
>>> You mean by making these things real skb members? I hope you're
>>> not talking about the entire 48 bytes? :)
>>>      =20
>> I mean elevating 802.11 header to 802.3 level. Not doing 802.3 ->
>> 802.11 translation where not needed.
>>    =20
>
>
> We've discussed that over and over and over and over again, and it's =
not
> going to fly since 802.11 throughout assumes that you have a two-addr=
ess
> data service to the upper layers.
>
> Besides, making it 802.11 native doesn't help with the control
> information at all.
>
> johannes
>  =20
It seems the patch you made an available at=20
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/153 solves my problem. DHCP works again=20
if I apply it on kernel 2.6.27-rc1.

=46ran=E7ois
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