RE: [RFC] VHT fields
"Alwin Beukers" <alwin-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:41:02 +0000
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> One question on this: > > "Note: for receive capture, the total bandwidth of the transmitter is > not generally known, so the bandwidth will only be recorded as 20, 40, > 80, or 160, with the Channel field indicating the transmission center > frequency." > > I'm not sure that's generally true, though it points out something that > we may need to define in more detail: we have (in Linux at least) always > had the Channel field indicate the control channel, not the transmission > center frequency. I think indicating the control channel wouldn't work very well in this case, especially for >40MHz bandwidths. How do you feel about extending [X]Channel with a flag that indicates we're specifying transmission center frequency? Alwin