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| author | Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> | 2009-08-08 23:53:47 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-08-14 09:13:52 -0400 |
| commit | 93354cbbcbfca920495377158c0f61c36be79e13 (patch) | |
| tree | 01a5a58b7bb9a907d69201743146726dacb92331 /drivers | |
| parent | 267e898755d7fc6249e26208e7ce97f415fd8c31 (diff) | |
rt2x00: Align ieee80211 header to 4-byte boundary for PCI devices
Some hardware require the ieee80211 header to be aligned to a
4-byte boundary before mapping it to the DMA. Otherwise some
frames (like beacons) will not be send out correctly by the
device.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c index 65435c9fe4b..e67e339d9df 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c @@ -453,9 +453,21 @@ int rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(struct data_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb) rt2x00crypto_tx_remove_iv(skb, &txdesc); } + /* + * When DMA allocation is required we should guarentee to the + * driver that the DMA is aligned to a 4-byte boundary. + * Aligning the header to this boundary can be done by calling + * rt2x00queue_payload_align with the header length of 0. + * However some drivers require L2 padding to pad the payload + * rather then the header. This could be a requirement for + * PCI and USB devices, while header alignment only is valid + * for PCI devices. + */ if (test_bit(DRIVER_REQUIRE_L2PAD, &queue->rt2x00dev->flags)) rt2x00queue_payload_align(entry->skb, true, txdesc.header_length); + else if (test_bit(DRIVER_REQUIRE_DMA, &queue->rt2x00dev->flags)) + rt2x00queue_payload_align(entry->skb, false, 0); /* * It could be possible that the queue was corrupted and this |