From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bruno randolf Subject: Re: IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for tx frames? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:48:03 +0900 Message-ID: <200711291248.03254.bruno@thinktube.com> References: <200711281127.59233.bruno@thinktube.com> <20071128031558.GQ3568@che.ojctech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20071128031558.GQ3568-eZ+MEZF6i8Dc+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: radiotap-admin-rN9S6JXhQ+WXmMXjJBpWqg@public.gmane.org Errors-To: radiotap-admin-rN9S6JXhQ+WXmMXjJBpWqg@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: radiotap-rN9S6JXhQ+WXmMXjJBpWqg@public.gmane.org Cc: David Young List-Id: radiotap@radiotap.org On Wednesday 28 November 2007 12:15:58 David Young wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:27:59AM +0900, bruno randolf wrote: > > hello! > > > > while working on packet injection for madwifi i came across the following > > question: > > > > can we use the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for injected TX frames to > > specifiy the number of retries to be used? > > > > this usage seems to be slighty different from the strict specification of > > radiotap for this field (at least the version of the header we have > > included in madwifi now) because it was concerned with received data > > frames only, and we apply it to all kinds of frames to be TXed: > > > > /* > > * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES u_int8_t data > > * > > * Number of unicast retries a transmitted frame used. > > */ > > > > could we extend the meaning of this field to be applicable to transmit > > frames too? > > I think that we should. I intend to use it that way, myself. thanks dave! i commited code to the madwifi svn which does that now. bruno