Re: [RFA] HE support

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:01:31 +0100
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 10:37 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 09:25 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > Rather than copy/paste all the information into the email, here are the
> > links to the three newly defined fields.
> > http://www.radiotap.org/fields/HE
> > http://www.radiotap.org/fields/HE-MU
> > http://www.radiotap.org/fields/HE-MU-other-user
> > 
> > I just made a minor change here to delete the duplicated field, and add
> > an RU offset field (with known flag, of course).
> 
> Oops, I have to make another update to this - we need a
> "primary/secondary 80 MHz bit" (along with validity).
> 
> I think I'll put that into data2 bits 0/31, any objections?

Just found another thing too.

In HE-MU, I had defined:
flags1: 0x0080: Bandwidth from SIG-A known
flags2: 0x0007: Bandwidth from SIG-A

Where this was intended to be like in the spec, which means:
 0 - 20 MHz non-puncturing
 1 - 40 MHz non-puncturing
 2 - 80 MHz non-puncturing
 3 - 160/80+80 MHz non-puncturing
 4/5/6/7 - the various puncturing modes


I think it'd be better to split this:
flags1: 0x0080: reserved
flags2: 0x0003: bandwidth from bw field in HE-SIG-A with the values
                 0 - 20 MHz
                 1 - 40 MHz
                 2 - 80 MHz
                 3 - 160/80+80 MHz
flags2: 0x0004: bandwidth from bw field in HE-SIG-A known
flags2: 0x0008: preamble puncturing from bw field in HE-SIG-A known
flags2: 0x0300: preamble puncturing from bw field in HE-SIG-A,
                with the values
                 0 - non-puncturing mode
                 1 - punctured secondary 20 MHz
                     (in primary 80 MHz if applicable)
                     [maps to HE-SIG-A bandwidth values 4 or 6]
                 2 - punctured but primary 40 MHz is presented
                     (in primary 80 MHz if applicable)
                     [maps to HE-SIG-A bandwidth values 5 or 7]

Richard, did you do any work on the HE-MU field yet that would collide
with such a change?

johannes