Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow overriding station bandwidth.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 02/14/2017 11:47 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 13:01 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> This allows one to disable VHT160 (or 80+80) on hardware
>> that might otherwise try to use it.  One potential reason
>> to do this is that at least some 160Mhz/80+80 hardware can
>> only do 2x2 at 160Mhz, but can do 4x4 at 80Mhz.  And, due to
>> driver and firmware issues, it may effectively be limitted
>> to 1x1 at 160Mhz for some NICs.
>
> I think the feature is acceptable and don't mind adding that (though
> perhaps we should start thinking about making some of these things
> debug-only features), but I think the description of why you might want
> to do this is misleading - those issues you're describing really should
> be solved differently, and I posted the basis for that yesterday.

Likely for some time remote third-party peers will not update with your patches
to advertise the proper IEs, even if the local system does?

Either way, I suspect that 4x4 VHT80 may perform quite well vs 2x2 VHT160 if
there is any sort of interference on the secondary 80Mhz band...

But, I can just remove the 'why' part of the description entirely if you prefer?

Thanks,
Ben

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