On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:25 -0700, Simon Barber wrote:
> It might be appropriate to change it from pkt_type to a flag indicating
> that a timestamp should be added at TX time "add_timestamp". This may
> well also end up being used for beacons too on hardware where the
> beacons are completely softw
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From: Johannes Berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:51 AM
To: Jouni Malinen
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Simon Barber; Jiri Benc
Subject: Re: [clarification request] ieee80211_tx_control.pkt_type
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 07:33 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Some hardware de
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 07:33 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Some hardware designs require this configuration for TX frames. It is
> used to select whether some of the fields are being filled in hardware
> (e.g., timestamp for Probe Response).
Ah ok, timestamp makes sense.
> This would only be nee
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:41:57PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I was pondering the ieee80211_tx_control type and don't see anyone using
> the pkt_type field. d80211 makes great effort to have it correct, but no
> driver uses it.
>
> Hence, my question: What is the purpose of this field? Under w
