Re: [Madwifi-devel] =?utf-8?q?=5Bpatch=5D_allow_retry_to_be_set_on_in?= =?utf-8?q?jected=09radiotap_frames?=

[bruno r. <br...@th...>]

fyi this is the answer from david young, from the radiotap mailing list.

so i'm going to check it in.

bruno

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Subject: Re: [Radiotap] IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES  for tx frames?
Date: Wednesday 28 November 2007
From: David Young <dy...@po...>
To: rad...@ma...

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:27:59AM +0900, bruno randolf wrote:
> hello!
> 
> while working on packet injection for madwifi i came across the following 
> question:
> 
> can we use the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES for injected TX frames to 
> specifiy the number of retries to be used? 
> 
> this usage seems to be slighty different from the strict specification of 
> radiotap for this field (at least the version of the header we have included 
> in madwifi now) because it was concerned with received data frames only, and 
> we apply it to all kinds of frames to be TXed:
> 
> /*
>  * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES      u_int8_t        data
>  *
>  *     Number of unicast retries a transmitted frame used.
>  */
> 
> could we extend the meaning of this field to be applicable to transmit 
frames 
> too?

I think that we should.  I intend to use it that way, myself.

Dave

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On Thursday 29 November 2007 07:01:25 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:56 -0800, Michael Taylor wrote:
> > Bruno,
> >
> > This is cool.  Finally we seem to have a decent solution to the ever
> > present request for an injection+retry patch.  :-)
>
> Although I'm cool to the injections, it's OK with me too :)