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Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:55:41 -0800
From:	Sam Leffler <sam@...no.com>
To:	David Young <dyoung@...ox.com>
CC:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver

David Young wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:52:20PM -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
>> On Friday 15 December 2006 17:51, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>> --- a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
>>> +++ b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
>>> @@ -168,6 +168,23 @@ struct ieee80211_radiotap_header {
>>>  *      Unitless indication of the Rx/Tx antenna for this packet.
>>>  *      The first antenna is antenna 0.
>>>  *
>>> + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RX_FLAGS          u_int16_t       bitmap
>>> + *
>>> + *     Properties of received frames. See flags defined below.
>>> + *
>>> + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TX_FLAGS          u_int16_t       bitmap
>>> + *
>>> + *     Properties of transmitted frames. See flags defined below.
>>> + *
>>> + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RTS_RETRIES       u_int8_t        data
>>> + *
>>> + *     Number of rts retries a transmitted frame used.
>>> + *
>>> + * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES      u_int8_t        data
>>> + *
>>> + *     Number of unicast retries a transmitted frame used.
>>> + *
>>> + *
>>>  * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_FCS              u32       data
>>>  *
>>>  *     FCS from frame in network byte order.
>>> @@ -187,7 +204,11 @@ enum ieee80211_radiotap_type {
>>>        IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA = 11,
>>>        IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DB_ANTSIGNAL = 12,
>>>        IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DB_ANTNOISE = 13,
>>> -       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_EXT = 31,
>>> +       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RX_FLAGS = 14,
>>> +       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TX_FLAGS = 15,
>>> +       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RTS_RETRIES = 16,
>>> +       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES = 17,
>>> +       IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_EXT = 31
>>> };
>>>
>>> /* Channel flags. */
>> Did you send this part to netbsd also? We really don't want to fork 
>> radiotap. ;) Also, this should be in a separate patch, but I'm guessing it's 
>> all rolled together for convenience.
> 
> No, especially since NetBSD is where I keep the authoritative definitions.
> 
> How have you defined RX_FLAGS and TX_FLAGS?
> 
> BTW, IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_FCS (above) never made it into radiotap.  No bit
> is reserved.

Tell that to everyone that implements it.

	Sam
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