On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 18:28 +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote: > Hello Johannes, > > All this logic is pretty complex, maybe we could translate the bitmap to > > an array of unsigned longs and use test_bit() instead of open-coding it > > for 8-bit words? > > Mhm, I would rather not add further copies into this fast path function, and > simply casting will result in bad behaviour (alignment, endianess). Well you don't want to copy it, you want to maintain the data that way, I think? Ok I think I see -- you're concerned about the masking etc. Dunno. Maybe at least there's a way to abstract out all the calculations? > Generally > changing the mcs_mask to u32 is possible, No, u64 might work today but maybe somebody will want to use higher MCSes in the future? johannes -- 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
