Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix HT configuration

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:42:57PM +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Handling HT configuration changes involved setting the channel
> with the new HT parameters and then issuing a rate_update()
> notification to the driver.
> 
> This behavior changed after the off-channel changes. Now, the channel
> is not updated with the new HT params in enable_ht() - instead, it
> is now done when the scan work terminates. This results in the driver
> depending on stale information, defaulting to non-HT mode always.
> 
> Fix this by passing the new channel type to the driver.
> 
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> ---
>  include/net/mac80211.h |    3 ++-
>  net/mac80211/mlme.c    |    3 ++-
>  net/mac80211/rate.h    |    5 +++--
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This should be combined with "ath9k: Fix HT rate control configuration"
-- I'll take care of it.

Thanks,

John
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