Re: [PATCH for 2.6.28] mac80211: fix basic rates

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:23 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> > This fixes the basic rate bitmap calculation in mac80211.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
>> > Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.25, 2.6.26, 2.6.27]
>> > ---
>> > Is this appropriate for stable? It's a trivial and obvious fix, and can
>> > throw off the duration calculation, but it's likely nobody will ever
>> > really notice...
>>
>> You would should fail association if one of the basic rates is not
>> supported  by the station
>
> No, this has nothing to do with association, it's just setting the
> internal variable about which rates are basic in the BSS.

I understand that but What your patch is doing it is preventing
of setting basic rates for ratest that are not sported by the driver,
but according
the spec it is not permissible that driver will not support one of the
basic rates.

Tomas