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Re: mac80211 TX frame alignment

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Hi Ivo,

> Do you know if for outgoing frames the header should always
> be 4-byte aligned?

I know that there's no alignment guarantee.

> I have a bugreport from users claiming that master mode
> is failing for rt2500pci because the beacons passed to the
> driver are not 4-byte aligned which causes the device not
> to send out the beacons correctly.
> 
> I'm just wondering if this is something that should be fixed
> in the driver or in mac80211.

I don't think we can fix that in mac80211, since we don't know whether
or not any alignment is required. We could align beacon frames, I
suppose, since those are created on the fly, but not data frames.

johannes

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