Re: Correct radiotap header for 802.11ad

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:32:37 +0200
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:59 -0700, Simon Barber wrote:
> The HT and VHT fields are missing various bits of phy layer info, and 
> 
> are defined missing enough bits for other fields. I've always thought It 
> would be much simpler if these fields could convey the whole SIGNAL bits 
> from the PLCP header, along with a mask in case it's not all available. 
> The drivers I've seen have the whole PLCP SIGNAL field available.
> 

What drivers have you been looking at? Most I've seen don't actually
have it.

I don't really object to this proposal though - the mask would be very
much needed though and one might have to re-construct the signal field
from available data.

johannes