The driver doesn't need to compute the CRC again. I just wanted to know if the firmware is passing the corrupted packets to the driver (letting it drop the packets) instead of dropping them itself.
--clw On 8/1/06, Ulrich Kunitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06-07-31 21:43 Clifton Watson wrote: > > > Ulrich, > > > > In other words, you are saying that the device driver drops the > > corrupted packets based on the value of an error flag? > > > > --clw > > Yes, just look at zd1205_validate_frame() in the vendor driver. > We are doing it in zd1211rw in fill_rx_stats(). Why should the > driver compute the CRC again, if the device is doing that already? > > -- > Uli Kunitz > -- ************************************************************** Clifton L. Watson, Ph.D. Candidate Michigan State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless and Video Communications Laboratory 3214 Engineering Building East Lansing, MI 48824 <http://www.egr.msu.edu/waves> *************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
