On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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: ÂIf 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. Eric, also please make sure you read and understand what using a SOB means: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=689e2371095cc5dfea9927120009341f369159aa;hb=HEAD#l309 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
