summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/include/net/mac80211.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>2010-03-29 11:35:07 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-03-31 20:39:34 +0200
commite3cf8b3f7b9eefbe1d39b160726d6e5c2cbb4c5d (patch)
treec59a6fcb8d0bcd88d848785a3dbe3978d1568274 /include/net/mac80211.h
parentb43: N-PHY: fix value written on 2055 radio setup (diff)
downloadlinux-e3cf8b3f7b9eefbe1d39b160726d6e5c2cbb4c5d.tar.xz
linux-e3cf8b3f7b9eefbe1d39b160726d6e5c2cbb4c5d.zip
mac80211: support paged rx SKBs
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. We will optimize them one by one later. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 1a8f50af49a0..ecaae10426f9 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1822,7 +1822,10 @@ void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
* ieee80211_rx - receive frame
*
* Use this function to hand received frames to mac80211. The receive
- * buffer in @skb must start with an IEEE 802.11 header.
+ * buffer in @skb must start with an IEEE 802.11 header. In case of a
+ * paged @skb is used, the driver is recommended to put the ieee80211
+ * header of the frame on the linear part of the @skb to avoid memory
+ * allocation and/or memcpy by the stack.
*
* This function may not be called in IRQ context. Calls to this function
* for a single hardware must be synchronized against each other. Calls to