[PATCH] ieee80211: allow mtu bigger than 1500

Hi

this patch allow to set the mtu between 1500 and 2304 (max octets in an
MSDU) for devices using ieee80211 linux stack.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
index 13b1e5fff7e4..2b14c2f3e21d 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ static void ieee80211_networks_initialize(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
                               &ieee->network_free_list);
 }
 
+static int ieee80211_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
+{
+        if ((new_mtu < 68) || (new_mtu > IEEE80211_DATA_LEN))
+                return -EINVAL;
+        dev->mtu = new_mtu;
+        return 0;
+}
+
 struct net_device *alloc_ieee80211(int sizeof_priv)
 {
         struct ieee80211_device *ieee;
@@ -133,6 +141,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_ieee80211(int sizeof_priv)
         }
         ieee = netdev_priv(dev);
         dev->hard_start_xmit = ieee80211_xmit;
+        dev->change_mtu = ieee80211_change_mtu;
 
         ieee->dev = dev;