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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
index 2edc774..e1583cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
@@ -1435,6 +1435,24 @@
/*
* Security key table memory.
+ *
+ * The pairwise key table shares some memory with the beacon frame
+ * buffers 6 and 7. That basically means that when beacon 6 & 7
+ * are used we should only use the reduced pairwise key table which
+ * has a maximum of 222 entries.
+ *
+ * ---------------------------------------------
+ * |0x4000 | Pairwise Key | Reduced Pairwise |
+ * | | Table | Key Table |
+ * | | Size: 256 * 32 | Size: 222 * 32 |
+ * |0x5BC0 | |-------------------
+ * | | | Beacon 6 |
+ * |0x5DC0 | |-------------------
+ * | | | Beacon 7 |
+ * |0x5FC0 | |-------------------
+ * |0x5FFF | |
+ * --------------------------
+ *
* MAC_WCID_BASE: 8-bytes (use only 6 bytes) * 256 entry
* PAIRWISE_KEY_TABLE_BASE: 32-byte * 256 entry
* MAC_IVEIV_TABLE_BASE: 8-byte * 256-entry
@@ -1584,7 +1602,8 @@ struct mac_iveiv_entry {
* 2. Extract memory from FCE table for BCN 4~5
* 3. Extract memory from Pair-wise key table for BCN 6~7
* It occupied those memory of wcid 238~253 for BCN 6
- * and wcid 222~237 for BCN 7
+ * and wcid 222~237 for BCN 7 (see Security key table memory
+ * for more info).
*
* IMPORTANT NOTE: Not sure why legacy driver does this,
* but HW_BEACON_BASE7 is 0x0200 bytes below HW_BEACON_BASE6.
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