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Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: Add HT rates into radiotap

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On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 17:16 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:48:47PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 15:47 +0100, Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the heads up, mail forwarded to Thomas d'Otreppe, as this
> > > will need changes in airodump-ng.
> > 
> > Guys! This format is brain-dead, it means we don't know 40MHz or SGI,
> > let's define something proper in radiotap instead!
> 
> While I'm not against defining something more officially for radiotap,
> I do not agree with the part about this format being that brain-dead.
> Both 40 MHz and short GI are indicated (IEEE80211_CHAN_TURBO and
> IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_SHORTGI) and shown in the current wireshark
> release.

Oh, right, I noticed. Well, as I just said, it's still pretty bogus
because we reuse turbo and confuse older dissectors with the 0x80 for HT
bit.

johannes

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