From: bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
To: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:36:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711241836.05159.bruno@thinktube.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195896461.8231.3.camel@localhost>
On Saturday 24 November 2007 18:27:41 Mattias Nissler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 09:34 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 00:21 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> > > On Friday 23 November 2007 05:45:54 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > This makes mac80211 include the low-level MAC timestamp
> > > > in the radiotap header.
> > >
> > > No thanks. Not every driver supports reporting the timestamp and
> > > supporting timestamp/no timestamp in the default radiotap rx code makes
> > > it not so simple anymore.
> >
> > Uh, so how am I supposed to get the timestamp? Copy all the code into
> > b43 and make it generate the exact same radiotap header? That's pretty
> > crappy too.
>
> On rt2x00, we've just added a facility that dumps information about all
> frames received and transmitted at a very low level. We dump general
> information about the frame, the tx/rx descriptors and the packet. Maybe
> something similar would also be useful for b43?
that's not a solution if you want them per packet in the radiotap header.
kismet & wireshark use them as well as other applications.
bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-24 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 10:45 [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header Johannes Berg
2007-11-24 5:21 ` Michael Wu
2007-11-24 8:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-24 9:27 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-11-24 9:36 ` bruno randolf [this message]
2007-11-24 13:38 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-11-25 6:21 ` Kalle Valo
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