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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-12-08 16:04:35 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-01-14 11:13:14 +0100
commit4352a4d7f6bfd0aed0276a13fa4993db35714db4 (patch)
treeba4792edce85432dbfde2a057774c62b82f730aa
parentfad471860c097844432c7cf5d3ae6a0a059c2bdc (diff)
downloadlinux-4352a4d7f6bfd0aed0276a13fa4993db35714db4.tar.gz
mac80211: document status.freq restrictions
It's not always necessary to set the status.freq field, for example
when this would be an expensive calculation. It must be set for all
management frames (as they might be reported to userspace), but for
data frames it's not really required. Document this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index a990338a766e..bdee1cc19c7e 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1108,6 +1108,8 @@ enum mac80211_rx_vht_flags {
  *	it but can store it and pass it back to the driver for synchronisation
  * @band: the active band when this frame was received
  * @freq: frequency the radio was tuned to when receiving this frame, in MHz
+ *	This field must be set for management frames, but isn't strictly needed
+ *	for data (other) frames - for those it only affects radiotap reporting.
  * @signal: signal strength when receiving this frame, either in dBm, in dB or
  *	unspecified depending on the hardware capabilities flags
  *	@IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_*