Re: Patch: Prepare for some cleanups of 802.11ad

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 22, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> So software that reads radiotap captures and that cares about 11ad information needs to have a workaround wherein 
> frames lacking a DMG field (which means "all frames", currently, as there isn't yet a DMG field) and having a channel 
> frequency in the 11ad range have an 11ad PHY and, if they have MCS or VHT fields, ignore all items in those fields 
> that don't apply to 11ad and *perhaps* interpret the MCS value in the MCS field as if it were an 11ad MCS value 
> rather than an 11n MCS value.

For what it's worth, it appears that the Linux wil6210 driver:

        https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/wil6210

uses the MCS field and its mcs value for 11ad.  (It can also be configured to supply raw "PHY data" with a 
vendor-namespace field.)  So, unless I've missed something, this workaround is also needed for packets from that driver 
(unless that *is* where you're getting these packets...).
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