From: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@nokia.com>
To: "ext Michael Wu" <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxyulu9t.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711240021.12394.flamingice@sourmilk.net> (ext Michael Wu's message of "Sat\, 24 Nov 2007 00\:21\:12 -0500")
"ext Michael Wu" <flamingice@sourmilk.net> writes:
>> 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.
Having MAC timestamps is very useful when one is debugging low level
problems. I'm currently using madwifi for this but would prefer b43.
How many drivers do not support MAC timestamps? It would be really
shame to loose this functionality.
--
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-25 6:29 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
2007-11-24 13:38 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-11-25 6:21 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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