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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211:  allow overriding station bandwidth.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:05:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487174718.31885.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58A46F91.6090707@candelatech.com>


> 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?

I think they ought to start doing that pretty soon.

> 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...

True. Rate scaling should probably pick that over 160 MHz bandwidth, if
supported. But if, for example, VHT opmode notification restricts
current operation to 2x2, rate scaling should still pick 160 MHz.

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

Yes, I just don't want to give people the wrong idea about this :)

johannes

      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-15 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 21:01 [PATCH] mac80211: allow overriding station bandwidth greearb
2017-02-15  7:47 ` Johannes Berg
2017-02-15 15:11   ` Ben Greear
2017-02-15 16:05     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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