From: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:27:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195896461.8231.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195893283.4149.188.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 09:34 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 00:21 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> > On Friday 23 November 2007 05:45:54 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > This makes mac80211 include the low-level MAC timestamp
> > > in the radiotap header.
> > >
> > No thanks. Not every driver supports reporting the timestamp and supporting
> > timestamp/no timestamp in the default radiotap rx code makes it not so simple
> > anymore.
>
> Uh, so how am I supposed to get the timestamp? Copy all the code into
> b43 and make it generate the exact same radiotap header? That's pretty
> crappy too.
On rt2x00, we've just added a facility that dumps information about all
frames received and transmitted at a very low level. We dump general
information about the frame, the tx/rx descriptors and the packet. Maybe
something similar would also be useful for b43?
Mattias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-24 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 10:45 [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header Johannes Berg
2007-11-24 5:21 ` Michael Wu
2007-11-24 8:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-24 9:27 ` Mattias Nissler [this message]
2007-11-24 9:36 ` bruno randolf
2007-11-24 13:38 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-11-25 6:21 ` Kalle Valo
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