From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Malinen, Jouni" <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Xu, Peng" <pxu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Add HT and VHT information in start_ap
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:12:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476364371.4904.29.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004161518.GD5430@jouni.qca.qualcomm.com>
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 16:15 +0000, Malinen, Jouni wrote:
>
> And even if the driver were to simply copy the IEs with the BSS
> membership selectors, this would only work with stations that
> implement this part correctly, i.e., the AP would not necessarily
> have any means for rejecting the association if a non-HT/VHT station
> were to try to associate.. With mac80211-drivers, this happens in
> hostapd.
Yes, that's a good point, so we'd still have to pass this information
down.
I think we'll look at adding the necessary parsing to cfg80211, and
then other drivers can pick it up as needed.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 18:07 [PATCH] cfg80211: Add HT and VHT information in start_ap Jouni Malinen
2016-08-16 6:52 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-16 12:34 ` Malinen, Jouni
2016-08-26 8:09 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-12 10:09 ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-03 21:15 ` Malinen, Jouni
2016-10-04 13:25 ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-04 16:15 ` Malinen, Jouni
2016-10-13 13:12 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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