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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Do not remove header padding on RX from short frames

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Jouni Malinen
<jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The 802.11 header is only padded to 32-bit boundary when the frame has
> a non-zero length payload. In other words, control frames (e.g., ACK)
> do not have a padding and we should not try to remove it. This fixes
> monitor mode for short control frames.

Thanks Jouni, that clears up the question of the same code in ath5k
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122888546315200&w=2).

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