Re: IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for tx frames?

[David Young <dyoung-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:27:59AM +0900, bruno randolf wrote:
> hello!
> 
> while working on packet injection for madwifi i came across the following 
> question:
> 
> can we use the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for injected TX frames to 
> specifiy the number of retries to be used? 
> 
> this usage seems to be slighty different from the strict specification of 
> radiotap for this field (at least the version of the header we have included 
> in madwifi now) because it was concerned with received data frames only, and 
> we apply it to all kinds of frames to be TXed:
> 
> /*
>  * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES      u_int8_t        data
>  *
>  *     Number of unicast retries a transmitted frame used.
>  */
> 
> could we extend the meaning of this field to be applicable to transmit frames 
> too?

I think that we should.  I intend to use it that way, myself.

Dave

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