From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:46690 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756783Ab1KRKE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:04:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides. From: Johannes Berg To: greearb@candelatech.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1321566884-31757-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111117_225454_269234_8D9DA167) References: <1321566884-31757-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111117_225454_269234_8D9DA167) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:04:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1321610663.10266.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111118_110432_333316_1A70B1BF) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 13:54 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > From: Ben Greear > > This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40, > and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for > drivers that support it. > > The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are > are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask. > > Attemping to disable features that are not supported will > take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid > backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be > clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask. > > This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional > patch will enable the feature in mac80211. Looks OK to me. johannes