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Re: [RFC 2/4] mac80211_hwsim: add hwsim_tx_rate_flags to Netlink Attributes

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On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Benjamin Beichler wrote:
> For correct interpretation of a tx rate, the corresponding rate flags
> are needed (e.g. whether a HT-MCS rate or a legacy rate) and
> moreover for more correct simulation the other infos of the flags are
> important (like short-GI). Keeping compability, the flags
> are not integrated into the existing hwsim_tx_rate, but transmitted
> as an additional netlink attribute.

This still exposes a lot of internal detail - perhaps it'd be better to
convert to some sort of stable rate representation, like in cfg80211?
Not sure that's sufficient though, it's a bit less detailed.

johannes



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