mac80211: Parse legacy and HT rate in injected frames

Drivers/devices without their own rate control algorithm can get the
information what rates they should use from either the radiotap header of
injected frames or from the rate control algorithm. But the parsing of the
legacy rate information from the radiotap header was removed in commit
e6a9854b05c1 ("mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API").

The removal of this feature heavily reduced the usefulness of frame
injection when wanting to simulate specific transmission behavior. Having
rate parsing together with MCS rates and retry support allows a fine
grained selection of the tx behavior of injected frames for these kind of
tests.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt b/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt
index 3a930072b161f..ec8f934c2eb24 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,23 @@ radiotap headers and used to control injection:
    IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NOACK: frame should be sent without waiting for
 				  an ACK even if it is a unicast frame
 
+ * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE
+
+   legacy rate for the transmission (only for devices without own rate control)
+
+ * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS
+
+   HT rate for the transmission (only for devices without own rate control).
+   Also some flags are parsed
+
+   IEEE80211_TX_RC_SHORT_GI: use short guard interval
+   IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH: send in HT40 mode
+
+ * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES
+
+   number of retries when either IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE or
+   IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS was used
+
 The injection code can also skip all other currently defined radiotap fields
 facilitating replay of captured radiotap headers directly.