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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-04-18 17:05:21 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-04-19 15:40:09 -0400
commit73b48099cc265f88fa1255f3f43e52fe6a94fd5c (patch)
treee1b8e4ac21954f57a6d6cd84e5dedea00b666a46 /net/mac80211
parent0ed7b3c04434788ef03d267190c5e9e6e3f8e9ce (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
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 {