On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Simon Barber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is this used by anyone? I don't see any reference to it. Any reason I can't 
> remove it?

It's used by listeners for the "radiotap" tap.

There are no listeners for that tap in the Wireshark source; the only listeners 
out there would either be plugins or versions in private/forked versions of 
Wireshark.

If it were to be replaced by a tap that, for example, passes on the struct 
ieee_802_11_phdr structure - or if the "wlan" tap were to be changed to pass 
that structure on - that would be an improvement, as, instead of a tap that can 
only handle radiotap, there would be taps that could handle *any* radio header, 
as long as it can handle not getting all the radio information it wants.

So if that's your plan - replacing the "radiotap" tap with a generic "802.11 
radio information" tap, or adding the generic 802.11 radio information to the 
"plan" tap - go for it.
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