From: Henning Rogge <hrogge@googlemail.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: Add HT rates into radiotap
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:31:51 +0100
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Stefanik =?iso-8859-1?q?G=E1bor?= <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Thomas d'Otreppe" <tdotreppe@aircrack-ng.org>
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On Friday 12 December 2008 16:16:19 Jouni Malinen wrote:
> While I'm not against defining something more officially for radiotap,
> I do not agree with the part about this format being that brain-dead.
> Both 40 MHz and short GI are indicated (IEEE80211_CHAN_TURBO and
> IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_SHORTGI) and shown in the current wireshark
> release.
Changing the meaning of the old "txrate" field (by putting an index inside)=
 is=20
a great way to break the userspace interface to any existing program. :(

Just get a new field for the mcs index.

Henning

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