Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add HT rates into RX status reporting

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:22 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:22:48PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 20:15 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > > Yes. FreeBSD radiotap definition uses 0x80 as a flag in the rate field
> > > for indicating that it is an MCS index, not bitrate.
> 
> > Ugh. Nobody will dissect that properly.
> 
> Actually, wireshark seems to have code to dissect that..

Ok, I stand corrected. Oh well, this is a huge mess...

> Well, yes, I do need it like yesterday. I really want to have a reliable
> sniffer that I can trust on providing correct information about received
> frames. I can obviously handle a personal patch that adds this, but it
> gets more complex when asking others to capture some frames for you..

Right. We'll need A-MPDU stuff too, I guess?

> Anyway, I will move the radiotap parts into a separate patch and leave
> it to others to decide whether that should go in now or not. The best
> option (if John is willing) would likely be to get the first part
> (mac80211 driver API addition and ath9k fix/cleanup) in and pushed
> upstream while the radiotap parts would be maintained only in
> wireless-testing for the time being.

I agree, that seems best.

johannes

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