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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmode
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:21:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290583289.3790.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290166826-27063-1-git-send-email-helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:40 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Add a new BSS attribute to allow hostapd to set the current HT opmode.
> Otherwise drivers won't be able to set up protection for HT rates in
> AP mode.
> 
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
> ---
> 
> Not sure if we also want to pass in some other parts of the HT Operation
> IE or maybe the whole IE?
> 
> At the moment the HT opmode is sufficient but in the future we might
> want to support STBC beaconing and so on. Passing the whole IE would
> not require any new interfaces later but also makes the interface less
> nice IMO :)
> 
> I'll send a patch for hostapd as soon as the interface is agreed on.

This seems fine to me. Any opinion from Jouni?

johannes



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-24  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-19 11:40 [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmode Helmut Schaa
2010-11-19 11:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Apply ht_opmode changes in ieee80211_change_bss Helmut Schaa
2010-11-24  7:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-11-30 11:08   ` [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmode Helmut Schaa
2010-12-06  4:44   ` Jouni Malinen

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