On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because > of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn. > Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were > left with the job of filtering. > > This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive > in terms of latency, memory and load. > > Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible > filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to > offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check, > RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible. > > Note: > This patch also includes all changes to the > shared headers files since the inclusion. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I'm sucking this into compat-wireless into linux-next-pending/ Luis -- 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
