Hi, > > 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. Ok, I'll look into a patch for making sure rt2x00 aligns all frames correctly before mapping the DMA. Thanks, Ivo -- 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
