On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> But I do have a choice where to fix it up and I'd prefer the drivers to
> do it where necessary. For that, the warning would work because it'd
> show driver authors that they need to fix something.

Fair enough.

> Hmm. I don't think so. Take an AP for example. It gets a lot of packets
> from stations. Now, if you're not QoS capable then all is well. But i
> you are and some stations are as well then all those stations send QoS
> packets (+2 bytes). Or take an AP connected via wireless (WPS), WPS has
> +6 bytes so I get all incoming upstream traffic with such unaligned
> headers.

The question is does this actually change all the time.  Let's
say you took a random sample of a second worth of IP packets
over wireless, what proportion of them are going to have the
same hardware header length modulo 4?

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