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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-10-28 09:58:52 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-10-30 16:49:20 -0400
commit6a86b9c78ebd0397eb953493c68ea9e194e7023c (patch)
tree521d05f66acb338a23e3bf6aac077896ae5ca044 /include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
parent4d36ec58239eec44d77839ef6c25108efcbbb58c (diff)
downloadlinux-6a86b9c78ebd0397eb953493c68ea9e194e7023c.tar.gz
mac80211: fix radiotap header generation
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  commit 601ae7f25aea58f208a7f640f6174aac0652403a
  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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
index 23c3f3d97779..9d3d86aaccbb 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct ieee80211_radiotap_header {
 				 * Additional extensions are made
 				 * by setting bit 31.
 				 */
-};
+} __packed;
 
 /* Name                                 Data type    Units
  * ----                                 ---------    -----