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Re: A good way to get CSI info to user-space?

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On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 13:59 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > The CSI data has variable length [1] but it's fundamentally always tied
> > to a specific frame and as such we've always attached it to that frame
> > using a radiotap vendor namespace.
> > 
> > You can easily implement that in a mac80211 driver since it has support
> > for that via RX_FLAG_RADIOTAP_VENDOR_DATA and the associated struct
> > ieee80211_vendor_radiotap that you put into the skb's head.
> > 
> > Why should anything else be needed?
> 
> So this would only show up in user-space in something like a pkt-capture?

Sure. But since you can easily add virtual monitor interfaces at any
time, that doesn't really mean anything.

johannes



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