Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53259 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756079Ab0CXM6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:58:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:34 +0100 From: Stanislaw Gruszka To: Zhu Yi Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Zhu Yi Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: support paged rx SKBs Message-ID: <20100324140034.6a6d91c9@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1269399463-5244-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> References: <1269399463-5244-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:57:42 +0800 Zhu Yi wrote: > Mac80211 drivers can now pass paged SKBs to mac80211 via > ieee80211_rx{_irqsafe}. The implementation currently use > skb_linearize() in a few places i.e. management frame handling, > software decryption, defragmentation and A-MSDU process. What benefits this gives? Only driver which need non linear skbs is iwliwifi and nicely handle that by itself. I do not see any other potential users for that. Can we wait for some other users before put that feature into mac stack? Stanislaw