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Re: [RFC 0/3] cfg80211, mac80211: Introduce radiotap flags for finer userspace control of injection

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On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 23:32 +0100, Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> Userspace packet injector applications might want to transmit packets
> that are, by design, not supposed to be acked. In other cases, an
> injector application may need to control the sequence number of the
> packets it transmits. Introduce 2 new flags in the "TX flags" Radiotap
> fields, controlling these 2 behaviors.
> 
> The new fields are as follows:
> 
>  * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TX_FLAGS
> 
>    IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NO_ACK: Transmit the packet once with no waiting for
> 				   an ACK and no retrying if no ACK received
>    IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NO_SEQ: Use the sequence number already present in
> 				   the 802.11 header, do not generate a new one
> 				   in the driver/stack. Useful when injecting
> 				   fragments with the same sequence number.

Umm, these aren't really defined by radiotap yet. Does all of this have
to be NOW?

johannes

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