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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: include MAC timestamp in radiotap header

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On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 09:34 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 00:21 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> > On Friday 23 November 2007 05:45:54 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > This makes mac80211 include the low-level MAC timestamp
> > > in the radiotap header.
> > >
> > No thanks. Not every driver supports reporting the timestamp and supporting 
> > timestamp/no timestamp in the default radiotap rx code makes it not so simple 
> > anymore.
> 
> Uh, so how am I supposed to get the timestamp? Copy all the code into
> b43 and make it generate the exact same radiotap header? That's pretty
> crappy too.

On rt2x00, we've just added a facility that dumps information about all
frames received and transmitted at a very low level. We dump general
information about the frame, the tx/rx descriptors and the packet. Maybe
something similar would also be useful for b43?

Mattias

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