From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>,
Alexander Simon <an.alexsimon@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mac80211: Add HT operation modes for IBSS
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:09:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E790F13.4070609@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6Wynn25oVHzrjusZ4OnrSyN-XwriVKFiPHMC+EvFqvTLg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-09-20 11:52 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@frijolero.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Felix Fietkau<nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
>>> This is not really an IBSS specific issue. It applies to WDS or monitor mode
>>> as well.
>>
>> Excellent point!
>>
>>> If we want to properly enforce Annex J channel pairs, this needs to
>>> be moved to cfg80211.
>>
>> This does not still address the issue of one peer finding out it
>> cannot deal with an HT40 pair and correcting the topology and
>> propagating this out. Not yet sure if for 802.11ac we'll need
>> something similar but its worth considering.
>
> Sorry I meant section 11.14.3.2 which deals with neighboring BSSes
> from the scan list, the annex J stuff would still need to be done by
> all the initial radiators too though for a primary.
If we need to handle this properly in the initial patch, then this can
probably only be done in a simple way by not supporting HT40 yet. It
should still support joining an IBSS with a different HT opmode though.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-20 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 22:14 [PATCH v3 1/3] nl80211: Parse channel type attribute in an ibss join request Alexander Simon
2011-09-17 22:14 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mac80211: Add HT helper functions Alexander Simon
2011-09-19 12:55 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-19 13:01 ` Alexander Simon
2011-09-17 22:14 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mac80211: Add HT operation modes for IBSS Alexander Simon
2011-09-17 22:54 ` Alexander Simon
2011-09-19 13:04 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-19 15:46 ` Alexander Simon
2011-09-20 12:21 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-20 18:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 18:21 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 18:46 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 19:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 19:31 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 20:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 21:04 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 21:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 21:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 22:09 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2011-09-20 22:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 21:52 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 22:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 22:54 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-09-20 23:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-09-20 18:55 ` Javier Cardona
2011-09-19 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] nl80211: Parse channel type attribute in an ibss join request Johannes Berg
2011-09-19 13:18 ` Alexander Simon
2011-09-19 13:32 ` Johannes Berg
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