From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Benjamin Beichler <benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] mac80211_hwsim: add hwsim_tx_rate_flags to Netlink Attributes
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:26:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504880794.20347.3.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb18fe18-c780-4073-886f-9c16788391ee@MAIL1.uni-rostock.de>
On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Benjamin Beichler wrote:
> For correct interpretation of a tx rate, the corresponding rate flags
> are needed (e.g. whether a HT-MCS rate or a legacy rate) and
> moreover for more correct simulation the other infos of the flags are
> important (like short-GI). Keeping compability, the flags
> are not integrated into the existing hwsim_tx_rate, but transmitted
> as an additional netlink attribute.
This still exposes a lot of internal detail - perhaps it'd be better to
convert to some sort of stable rate representation, like in cfg80211?
Not sure that's sufficient though, it's a bit less detailed.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170908141137.3941-1-benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de>
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 2/4] mac80211_hwsim: add hwsim_tx_rate_flags to Netlink Attributes Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:26 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-09-11 9:49 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-15 7:36 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 3/4] mac80211_hwsim: explicitly set netlink parallel ops to false Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 15:07 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 15:11 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 4/4] mac80211_hwsim: add radio idx param to netlink callback of radio creation Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:28 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:43 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:46 ` Johannes Berg
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