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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix alignment warning

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> Hmm. This alignment isn't strictly necessary because we actually copy
> all the payload within an A-MSDU frame. I think we can get rid of that
> though if we're a bit more careful what we do with the frame, i.e. if we
> copy it before passing it back to mac80211 for multicast frames we can
> optimise the common non-multicast case by using only a clone.

In fact, I'm not sure we can do this. Asking on netdev, I guess we
shouldn't merge this patch until we know. If we can't give a cloned skb
to netif_rx() then we don't care at all and don't need to align A-MSDU
packets at all...

johannes

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