Re: MCS field: RFA

David Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:26:07PM +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Hi,
> the MCS filed is in the suggested fields since about a month, now I
> request its approval.
> 
> Here is the draft of the field: http://www.radiotap.org/suggested-fields/MCS

FreeBSD uses the flags field and the channel flags to indicate Short
GI and 40 MHz frames.  Let's adopt the FreeBSD definitions for that
purpose.

I think that it may be a good idea to add an MCS rate field instead of
to overload the legacy rate field, as FreeBSD does.

Dave

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