Re: 802.11ac support

[Mahesh <maheshp@posedge.com>]

On 04/03/2012 05:36 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 14:07 +0530, Mahesh wrote:
>
>> I had analysed mac80211 code to see what changes are required for 11ac
>> support. Attached word doc describes mac80211 modules in detail and last
>> section describing what changes we need for 11ac. This is a proposal.
>> Please review and let me know your opinion.
> You really shouldn't try to send word documents to the list, they won't
> arrive anyway. Also, it's bad form to send out documents that say
> "confidential" all over them ...
> Most people also probably don't care about your analysis of what
> mac80211 already does.
>
> In any case, here's my list of things I think will/may need to be done
> for 11ac in the stack:
>   * extend regulatory framework (cfg80211)
>   * advertise VHT capabilities (nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211&  each driver)
>   * advertise VHT in scan (mac80211)
>   * advertise VHT in assoc req (mac80211)
>   * advertise VHT in P2P probe responses (wpa_supplicant)
>   * advertise VHT in AP/GO mode beacons/probe responses
>     (wpa_supplicant/hostapd)
>   * handle per-station VHT capa (mac80211, wpa_s)
>   * extended CSA (mac80211)
>   * VHT transmit power envelope/extended power constraint (mac80211)
>   * quiet channels?
>   * HT/VHT basic rate handling?
>   * neighbor reports?
>   * beamforming action frame support? (mac80211)
>
> johannes
>
Thanks for listing the 11ac requirements. will work on those and post my 
updates.

~Mahesh