Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Parse IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE on TX

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 09:52 +0200, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:

> If I am not mistaken it is not possible to say that this feature may be
> useful as the general method for monitor-mode injection with datarate
> until there is some user-space utility really using/needing it?

Yes, this wasn't as much a comment on the patch as rather on your
implied approach for your userspace :)

That said, it's tricky, be cause much hardware doesn't allow to do this.
Maybe we should then have a feature flag or so rather than silently
ignoring the data?

johannes

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