RE: [RFC] VHT fields

From: "Alwin Beukers" <alwin-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "radiotap-sUITvd46vNxg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org"
	<radiotap-sUITvd46vNxg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>,
	Arend Van Spriel <arend-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	Pieter-Paul Giesberts
	<pieterpg-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	Bill Stafford <stafford-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] VHT fields
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:43:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6E8EE2D6B3ACB4582C1249E834B3065080467@SJEXCHMB13.corp.ad.broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341477463.4455.17.camel-8upI4CBIZJIJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO@public.gmane.org>

> On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 17:18 +0000, Alwin Beukers wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback on the 802.11ac fields.
> >
> > If there are no further suggestions, I would like to request the SU_VHT,
> > MU_VHT and
> > PARTIAL_AID fields to be moved to the defined-fields section and have
> > their bit numbers
> > assigned. As the group ID was merged into SU_VHT, the GROUP_ID field
> > can be dropped.
> >
> > With the bit numbers assigned I can deliver the Wireshark patch for parsing
> > these fields.
> 
> Can we also have a producer of the fields? I realise that may be hard to
> do now without a driver? :-)

Yes, that is somewhat of a challenge :-) 

I do have packet captures with the VHT field that could be made available,
although I realize it's not ideal...

Alwin

> Please just use the next free bit numbers though, swapping those out
> later will be easy, and that way we can see the code before adopting the
> changes, this helps flush out implementation issues.
> 
> See also http://www.radiotap.org/Standardisation
> 
> johannes
> 