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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:32:37 +0200
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On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:59 -0700, Simon Barber wrote:
> The HT and VHT fields are missing various bits of phy layer info, and 
> 
> are defined missing enough bits for other fields. I've always thought It 
> would be much simpler if these fields could convey the whole SIGNAL bits 
> from the PLCP header, along with a mask in case it's not all available. 
> The drivers I've seen have the whole PLCP SIGNAL field available.
> 

What drivers have you been looking at? Most I've seen don't actually
have it.

I don't really object to this proposal though - the mask would be very
much needed though and one might have to re-construct the signal field
from available data.

johannes