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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Account HT Control field in Data frame hdrlen according to 802.11n-2009

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Andriy Tkachuk <andrit@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
> data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.
>
> According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
> when both of following are met:
>
>   1. It is QoS data frame.
>   2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.
>
> The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
> because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
> to 0".
>
> Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@xxxxxxx>

Very nice, thanks for the fuller commit log. Hm, the question I also
wanted to address was whether or not this is a stable fix to go for
2.6.32 and 2.6.33, I suppose we'd have to look at all callers of
ieee80211_hdrlen() but this seems like a stable fix to me.

  Luis
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