Re: ieee80211 patches

[Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 August 2005 05:04, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> > - AVS capture header in monitor mode
>
> there has been a discussion about AVS or radiotap header on the ipw list
> that resulted in the inclusion of radiotap definitions in James' latest
> patches for ieee80211. Radiotap requires a libpcap upgrade, but can be
> extended easier. I'd like all linux wireless drivers to move to radiotap
> for statistic data so that userspace has just one format to parse, and a
> new driver would be a perfect target to begin.
>
Sounds like everyone agrees that radiotap is a superior header. I will remove 
AVS support and add radiotap support (if additional code is needed) once 
radiotap code is merged in ieee80211.

Thanks,
-Michael Wu