Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> writes: > On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: >> I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came >> across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is >> not using standard stuff like the one in `include/linux/ieee80211.h` >> where any data wider than one byte is clearly declared as __le<nn>? > > That is a good question. One possibility is that those definitions do > not exist on some of the older kernels that Realtek supports. They > generally work with 2.6.18 and newer.
The reason the 8723au driver doesn't use the defines from there is that in ieee80211.h they are part of struct ieee80211_mgmt, while the 8723au driver access the addba etc. elements without the full struct in place. Jes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
