RE: [PATCH 3/4] mwifiex: add 11n support for AP mode

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:44 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> > > Parse HT IE from cfg80211 and set HT capabilities accordingly
> > > to FW. If HT IE is missing, 11n would be disabled in FW.
> > 
> > No objections, but it might be worthwhile to extend the APIs to not
> have
> > to parse this?
> 
> If I understand it correctly, we can probably do something like this:
> 
> 1) add new variables "const u8 *ht_cap" and "size_t ht_cap_len" to
> struct cfg80211_ap_settings
> 2) parse WLAN_EID_HT_CAPABILITY in nl80211_start_ap() and update
> ht_cap/ht_cap_len accordingly
> 3) drivers (mwifiex, etc.) make use of ht_cap/ht_cap_len directly in
> start_ap() handler
> 
> Regardless we have to parse HT_CAP IE from beacon.tail, either in
> driver start_up handler, or inside of cfg80211/nl80211. Please let me
> know if above change is OK for you.

I don't think I'd bother doing the above change. I was thinking that the
supplicant/hostapd would give it in separate attributes, but I guess it
doesn't.

johannes