On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:58, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > 1) audit the use of hard_header_len in net/* and submit fixes
> We've handled variable length headers for years so that bit I do trust.
And that's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks.
Out of curiousity, how far back to you trust the code? 2.2? 2.0? I only
ask because a lot of the driver work I do is for underpowered
embedded targets running relatively ancient 2.0 kernels.
> AX.25 even has variable length headers on ARP frames 8)
Eww.
> > 2) write an 802.11 equivalent of the code in eth.c
> That may be much cleaner and easier to get right. Its also easier to
> maintain
That's what I've been planning to do all along. It will be nice not
having to convert 802.3<-->802.11 in every wireless driver.. plus the
added benefit of not having to realloc/memcpy buffers to work around
dumb DMA engines that require contiguious buffers..
- Pizza
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