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* [PATCH] mac80211: explain padding in place of rate field
@ 2011-04-18 15:05 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2011-04-18 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Apparently this was confusing still ... add a
note that the byte is needed as padding.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c	2011-04-18 17:02:40.000000000 +0200
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c	2011-04-18 17:04:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ ieee80211_add_rx_radiotap_header(struct
 	if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
 		/*
 		 * MCS information is a separate field in radiotap,
-		 * added below.
+		 * added below. The byte here is needed as padding
+		 * for the channel though, so initialise it to 0.
 		 */
 		*pos = 0;
 	} else {



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