Apparently this was confusing still ... add a note that the byte is needed as padding. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
@@ -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 {