ieee80211: document DS bit usage

I keep needing this because I'm too stupid to remember it.
Everybody else can probably remember, but who knows :)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index b1bb817d1427..382387e75b89 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -18,6 +18,22 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 
+/*
+ * DS bit usage
+ *
+ * TA = transmitter address
+ * RA = receiver address
+ * DA = destination address
+ * SA = source address
+ *
+ * ToDS    FromDS  A1(RA)  A2(TA)  A3      A4      Use
+ * -----------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  0       0       DA      SA      BSSID   -       IBSS/DLS
+ *  0       1       DA      BSSID   SA      -       AP -> STA
+ *  1       0       BSSID   SA      DA      -       AP <- STA
+ *  1       1       RA      TA      DA      SA      unspecified (WDS)
+ */
+
 #define FCS_LEN 4
 
 #define IEEE80211_FCTL_VERS             0x0003