+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===========================
How to use radiotap headers
===========================
------------------------------------
Radiotap headers are variable-length and extensible, you can get most of the
-information you need to know on them from:
+information you need to know on them from::
-./include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
+ ./include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
This document gives an overview and warns on some corner cases.
the header for argument index 0 (IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TSFT) is present in the
argument area.
+::
+
< 8-byte ieee80211_radiotap_header >
[ <possible argument bitmap extensions ... > ]
[ <argument> ... ]
Example valid radiotap header
-----------------------------
+::
+
0x00, 0x00, // <-- radiotap version + pad byte
0x0b, 0x00, // <- radiotap header length
0x04, 0x0c, 0x00, 0x00, // <-- bitmap
If you are having to parse a radiotap struct, you can radically simplify the
job by using the radiotap parser that lives in net/wireless/radiotap.c and has
-its prototypes available in include/net/cfg80211.h. You use it like this:
+its prototypes available in include/net/cfg80211.h. You use it like this::
-#include <net/cfg80211.h>
+ #include <net/cfg80211.h>
-/* buf points to the start of the radiotap header part */
+ /* buf points to the start of the radiotap header part */
-int MyFunction(u8 * buf, int buflen)
-{
- int pkt_rate_100kHz = 0, antenna = 0, pwr = 0;
- struct ieee80211_radiotap_iterator iterator;
- int ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(&iterator, buf, buflen);
+ int MyFunction(u8 * buf, int buflen)
+ {
+ int pkt_rate_100kHz = 0, antenna = 0, pwr = 0;
+ struct ieee80211_radiotap_iterator iterator;
+ int ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(&iterator, buf, buflen);
- while (!ret) {
+ while (!ret) {
- ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next(&iterator);
+ ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next(&iterator);
- if (ret)
- continue;
+ if (ret)
+ continue;
- /* see if this argument is something we can use */
+ /* see if this argument is something we can use */
- switch (iterator.this_arg_index) {
- /*
- * You must take care when dereferencing iterator.this_arg
- * for multibyte types... the pointer is not aligned. Use
- * get_unaligned((type *)iterator.this_arg) to dereference
- * iterator.this_arg for type "type" safely on all arches.
- */
- case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE:
- /* radiotap "rate" u8 is in
- * 500kbps units, eg, 0x02=1Mbps
- */
- pkt_rate_100kHz = (*iterator.this_arg) * 5;
- break;
+ switch (iterator.this_arg_index) {
+ /*
+ * You must take care when dereferencing iterator.this_arg
+ * for multibyte types... the pointer is not aligned. Use
+ * get_unaligned((type *)iterator.this_arg) to dereference
+ * iterator.this_arg for type "type" safely on all arches.
+ */
+ case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE:
+ /* radiotap "rate" u8 is in
+ * 500kbps units, eg, 0x02=1Mbps
+ */
+ pkt_rate_100kHz = (*iterator.this_arg) * 5;
+ break;
- case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA:
- /* radiotap uses 0 for 1st ant */
- antenna = *iterator.this_arg);
- break;
+ case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA:
+ /* radiotap uses 0 for 1st ant */
+ antenna = *iterator.this_arg);
+ break;
- case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_TX_POWER:
- pwr = *iterator.this_arg;
- break;
+ case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_TX_POWER:
+ pwr = *iterator.this_arg;
+ break;
- default:
- break;
- }
- } /* while more rt headers */
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ } /* while more rt headers */
- if (ret != -ENOENT)
- return TXRX_DROP;
+ if (ret != -ENOENT)
+ return TXRX_DROP;
- /* discard the radiotap header part */
- buf += iterator.max_length;
- buflen -= iterator.max_length;
+ /* discard the radiotap header part */
+ buf += iterator.max_length;
+ buflen -= iterator.max_length;
- ...
+ ...
-}
+ }
Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>