ath5k: add notes about rx timestamp
add comments about the fact that we don't know when exactly the atheros hardware takes the RX timestamp. drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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* 15bit only. that means TSF extension has to be done within
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* 15bit only. that means TSF extension has to be done within
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* 32768usec (about 32ms). it might be necessary to move this to
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* 32768usec (about 32ms). it might be necessary to move this to
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* the interrupt handler, like it is done in madwifi.
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* the interrupt handler, like it is done in madwifi.
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* Unfortunately we don't know when the hardware takes the rx
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* timestamp (beginning of phy frame, data frame, end of rx?).
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* The only thing we know is that it is hardware specific...
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* On AR5213 it seems the rx timestamp is at the end of the
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* frame, but i'm not sure.
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* NOTE: mac80211 defines mactime at the beginning of the first
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* data symbol. Since we don't have any time references it's
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* impossible to comply to that. This affects IBSS merge only
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* right now, so it's not too bad...
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*/
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*/
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rxs.mactime = ath5k_extend_tsf(sc->ah, rs.rs_tstamp);
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rxs.mactime = ath5k_extend_tsf(sc->ah, rs.rs_tstamp);
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rxs.flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;
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rxs.flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;
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