Le jeudi 06 janvier 2011 Ã 15:53 -0800, Ben Greear a Ãcrit : > On 12/22/2010 11:22 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > > With the ath9k driver, I get "skbuff alloc of size 3872 failed" > > > > I hit this again today after not using wireless for quite sometime. It > > looks like it was originally reported against 2.6.35-rc1. Eric Dumazet > > provided a patch which fixed the issue, but apparently it's still not > > upstream. Why is this? > > > > If it is suitable for upstream inclusion, please take my Tested-by: > > Matt Turner<mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104271/ > > I applied this patch and it seems to work fine, but there > were some questions by Eric in the patchwork thread that should probably > be answered by ath9k folks. > > For instance: > > IEEE80211_MAX_MPDU_LEN being 3840 + somebits is suspect, since it doesnt > match 802.11 specs. > > It should be more close of 2304 + MAC header (32bytes) + FCS (4 bytes) ? > > > Eric: If the patch is fine as is, and if you are too busy to > submit it, I can do so with your Signed-off-by if you want. > Well, problem is I dont have this hardware and various reports were very confusing. Certainly a word from authors/maintainers of this driver is wanted ;) Thanks ! -- 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
