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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 03:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:55 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>
>>> Johannes and John,
>>>
>>> A regression in recent versions of mac80211 are generating the WARNING at
>>> net/mac80211/wep.c:101, because the skb headroom is less than WEP_IV_LEN
>>> or the
>>> tailroom is less than WEP_ICV_LEN. My testing indicates that it is a
>>> headroom
>>> problem as the following hack "fixes" it:
>>
>> See also this thread:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69062/focus=69150
>>
>> and the resulting patch:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69190
>> (not sure why it was RFC?)

I will send the patch today :)

thanks,
shafi

>
> Thanks. I do remember the thread now that you refreshed my memory. That
> patch does fix my problem.
>
> Larry
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