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: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 54858a6..1f06b31 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@
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 {
