From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] d80211: Add software RTS support Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:42:57 +0100 Message-ID: <200702051942.57753.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <200701312016.50524.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <200702051907.53220.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <200702051922.46885.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Benc , "John Linville" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Buesch , Johannes Berg To: Michael Buesch Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]:57806 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932606AbXBESnT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:43:19 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so1097010ana for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:43:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200702051922.46885.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, > > Did you already send that patchset to the netdev list? > > Because I haven't seen a patch series about rts for d80211 yet. > > No, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Hmm, wasn't subscribed to that list yet. :( But now I am. :) > > The new rt2500usb and rt73usb packet ring handling no longer use a DMA buffer > > but instead send the sk_buffer->data pointer to the USB layer. > > The solution as suggested by Jiri could be handled by making sure the rts allocated > > buffer will also have a tx header room as set in the tx_header_room field. But I am not > > sure if that would be a better solution than putting the rts packet in a sk_buffer that is being > > send out just before the real packet... > > In my patchset you can put it into anything you like. > I put it into an skb. Sounds good, I'll look that patchset up in the mailarchive. Ivo