Re: IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for tx frames?

[bruno randolf <bruno-L9ZBdB2wSWtl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 12:15:58 David Young wrote:
> 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.

thanks dave!

i commited code to the madwifi svn which does that now.

bruno