Commit 93354cbb authored by Ivo van Doorn's avatar Ivo van Doorn Committed by John W. Linville

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: default avatarIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 267e8987
...@@ -453,9 +453,21 @@ int rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(struct data_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb) ...@@ -453,9 +453,21 @@ int rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(struct data_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb)
rt2x00crypto_tx_remove_iv(skb, &txdesc); 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)) if (test_bit(DRIVER_REQUIRE_L2PAD, &queue->rt2x00dev->flags))
rt2x00queue_payload_align(entry->skb, true, rt2x00queue_payload_align(entry->skb, true,
txdesc.header_length); 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 * It could be possible that the queue was corrupted and this
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