On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > But I do have a choice where to fix it up and I'd prefer the drivers to > do it where necessary. For that, the warning would work because it'd > show driver authors that they need to fix something. Fair enough. > Hmm. I don't think so. Take an AP for example. It gets a lot of packets > from stations. Now, if you're not QoS capable then all is well. But i > you are and some stations are as well then all those stations send QoS > packets (+2 bytes). Or take an AP connected via wireless (WPS), WPS has > +6 bytes so I get all incoming upstream traffic with such unaligned > headers. The question is does this actually change all the time. Let's say you took a random sample of a second worth of IP packets over wireless, what proportion of them are going to have the same hardware header length modulo 4? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
