On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:24:54PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 20:54 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
>
> > > No, older wpa_supplicant/hostapd still use monitor interfaces for
> > > management frame transmissions, and require rate control.
> > >
> >
> > Since they require rate control, I guess they don't pass any radiotap
> > IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_{RATE,MCS} ? In that case that wouldn't disturb them.
>
> Yeah, indeed, I wasn't looking right ...
>
> > And, oops typo, I meant :
> >
> > + !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED && info->control.rates[0] != -1))
> >
1)
> > with info->control.rates[0] properly set in the radiotap header parsing,
> > instead of :
> >
> > > > + !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED && info->control.rates[i]))
> >
> > If that changes anything to what you guessed.
>
> Well actually this won't work anyway because control.rates[] isn't
> initialized to -1.
>
Of course we would set info->control.rates[0] to -1 by default in
ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap and set it to something else if we parse a
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_{RATE,MCS} (i.e what I was referring to in 1b).
Karl
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