Re: MCS field: RFA

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:47 -0600, David Young wrote:

> 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'd mostly agree, but I'm not sure what they really use the 40MHz flag
for. For instance, might there be value in knowing that the AP opened
the channel for 40MHz, but for some reason we are doing 20MHz
transmissions instead? And would this be an appropriate way of
conferring that information?

johannes
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