RE: [RFC] VHT fields
"Alwin Beukers" <alwin-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:56:15 +0000
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Hi Johannes, > I have a feeling though that the group ID would be useful to always > have, even if it's just 0/63 in the SU case, to make it easier on > filtering? Good point, putting this into the SU_VHT field and dropping VHT_GROUP will make things easier. > > Also, I was wondering if we need all > > of the 'known' flags in SU_VHT. The MCS field (after which SU_VHT was > > modeled) > > also has these, but I don’t know the rationale behind them. Can one > > assume a > > driver has full access to the PLCP header and thus can fill in most > > of fields > > in the SU_VHT field? > > I know that's usually the case for your devices, but it isn't typically > the case for all the random devices out there ... so I think we should > have the known flags to not run into a situation later where a device > has to lie. Makes sense, I'll keep these in then. Thanks, Alwin