Re: VHT support, take 2

[Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>]

On 11/10/2012 01:51 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 21:17 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> What I intend to do next is this have a patch to parse the VHT
>> operation IE in mac80211 (or have a helper in cfg80211?) to
>> select the VHT channel configuration in MLME code.
>>
>> I'm kinda hoping the posedge folks will come back with the
>> regulatory code so I don't have to worry about that ...
>> *hint hint* :-)

vht regulatory code already posted long back. After went through several 
back n forth emails from Luis Rodriguez, accepted the patch.
But not commited anywhere.
Now I have to change that to match to new structs like chan_def etc from 
the vht channel work patches you posted 5 days back.

Also helper funcs to replace chan->flags bit checking to dynamically 
check channel through regulatory

>>
>> After that, I'll need to work on the remaining hostapd code,
>> that should just need channel configuration etc. now. Then I
>> think it just needs a good test run.
>>
>> I'm not interested in VHT IBSS, so I'm not going to do anything
>> there, nor VHT mesh.
>>
>> The other thing would be rate control, e.g. minstrel_vht, but
>> I'm not sure we can use minstrel at all, so I'll probalby not
>> work on minstrel myself.
>
> Oh and then of course there's also a whole bunch of action frame
> handling that will be needed in mac80211, but I'm not really sure yet
> what that actually is.
>
> johannes
>
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