Subject: Re: alignment of 802.11 structs and MIPS cpus
To: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/10/2000 09:12:36
> The structure is not just for wi driver, but for all 802.11 drivers.
> Since nwid is defined as byte array with maximum 32 byte length,
> there are no point to change it to short array.
> For length field, it can be an any types.

Yes, and my suggestion was to change length to int (or unsigned) for
performance reasons and leave the byte array alone.

But only if it's worth changing at all, which probably it isn't at this
point of the discussion any more.


Martin