From 73b48099cc265f88fa1255f3f43e52fe6a94fd5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:05:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: explain padding in place of rate field
Apparently this was confusing still ... add a
note that the byte is needed as padding.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 54858a68abd7..1f06b31e21c1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ ieee80211_add_rx_radiotap_header(struct ieee80211_local *local,
if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
/*
* MCS information is a separate field in radiotap,
- * added below.
+ * added below. The byte here is needed as padding
+ * for the channel though, so initialise it to 0.
*/
*pos = 0;
} else {
--
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