On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:59 +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> 
> The flag itself has to be set when the radiotap information is
> available+parsed and when the actual rate information calculation
> should
> happen. 
> 
> Afaik the ieee80211_tx_data is always a local variable on the stack.
> Either
> from ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb, ieee80211_tx, ieee80211_xmit_fast or
> ieee80211_get_buffered_bc. But the parsing of the radiotap header
> happens
> before that in ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit. And after that it calls
> ieee80211_xmit -> ieee80211_tx. So tx_data is definitely not
> available when
> the radiotap header is parsed.

Fair enough. We could put that data elsewhere, but it's probably not
worth it for a simple flag.

johannes
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