Commit 73b48099 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 0ed7b3c0

net/mac80211/rx.c

+2 −1
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@@ -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 {