mac80211: fix radiotap header generation

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  commit 601ae7f25a
  Author: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
  Date:   Thu May 8 19:22:43 2008 +0200

      mac80211: make rx radiotap header more flexible

code was added that tried to align the radiotap header
position in memory based on the radiotap header length.
Quite obviously, that is completely useless.

Instead of trying to do that, use unaligned accesses
to generate the radiotap header. To properly do that,
we also need to mark struct ieee80211_radiotap_header
packed, but that is fine since it's already packed
(and it should be marked packed anyway since its a
wire format).

Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2009-10-28 09:58:52 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 4d36ec5823
commit 6a86b9c78e
2 changed files with 13 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct ieee80211_radiotap_header {
* Additional extensions are made
* by setting bit 31.
*/
};
} __packed;
/* Name Data type Units
* ---- --------- -----