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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: support paged rx SKBs

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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:57:42 +0800
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mac80211 drivers can now pass paged SKBs to mac80211 via
> ieee80211_rx{_irqsafe}. The implementation currently use
> skb_linearize() in a few places i.e. management frame handling,
> software decryption, defragmentation and A-MSDU process. 

What benefits this gives? Only driver which need non linear skbs
is iwliwifi and nicely handle that by itself. I do not see any 
other potential users for that. Can we wait for some other
users before put that feature into mac stack?

Stanislaw

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