From 73b48099cc265f88fa1255f3f43e52fe6a94fd5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg 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 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- 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 { -- 2.11.0