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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: partially fix skb->cb use

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> > This fixes wireless. At least it works on my WPA network, I haven't
> > actually tested a broken kernel.
> 
> This patch fixes my broken 2.6.27-rc1 kernel using b43, which had not worked 
> since the new networking stuff was merged.

Thanks for the heads-up.

> I'm pretty discouraged that a change that has such an impact on wireless never 
> made it to wireless-testing, where this kind of defect should have been found 
> and fixed long before it ever got into mainline.

I had tested earlier versions of davem's patches, and those worked fine.
and I guess that since he was not aware that mac80211 had always been
using skb->cb in illegal ways, he couldn't realise how it would break
wireless.

johannes

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