Re: [Madwifi-devel] Radiotap and FCS bytes

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

Quoting Scott Raynel <sco...@gm...>:

> > It looks like the new flags are added completely independently.
> > Now that's
> > really bad!
>
> *sigh*
>
> NetBSD and FreeBSD both stop at DB_ANTNOISE, so who knows what will
> be added next :)

... and how.  I hope they won't do it unilaterally.

Thanks for checking!

> I wonder if we should try to coordinate with all of the involved
> parties to try and get things standardised.

It's simple.  Either there is one acknowledged authority, or there will be no
single standard.  I'm going to post to linux-wireless about the situation.

> We should at least try and stop Linux from adding new fields before
> mac80211 is finalised. I guess now is a good time for me to start
> looking at the mac80211 stuff :)

Note that wireless-2.6 is not the mac80211 repository.  It's the wireless
drivers repository.  The mac80211 repository is wireless-dev.  It doesn't have
the conflicting flags.

All the new flags on the Linux side come from Marvell Libertas driver used in
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) hardware.

> Time to find a git howto...

There is an overwhelming amount of documentation about an overwhelming number of
git commands :-/

Jumping into raw git may not be the best approach.  I suggest that you use StGIT
to do things and qgit to view the result.  That should cover most of your needs.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin