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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Arik Nemtsov <anamtsov@gmail.com>,
	Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2] mac80211: Don't let regulatory make us deaf
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:32:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227113212.GA4576@w1.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330338898.3483.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:34:58AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Come to think of it, we could also simply configure the channel to be
> the right HT channel during auth, and then still associate as a non-HT
> station later. I realise this isn't the best configuration, but given
> that this is a corner case (TKIP used on an HT AP!) I think we can live
> with that.

In general, it should be fine to enable HT/HT40 configuration for
receive and just make sure we never transmit using parameters not
allowed by regulatory or something like HT+TKIP rules. However, there
could be some hardware/firmware designs that would refuse HT+TKIP at
lower layer, so skipping the channel (re-)configuration could
potentially cause some problems. I'm not aware of any specific example
of this, though, so I can only speculate that such a thing could exist.

> More importantly though, I think having to worry about reconfiguring the
> channel will also be a big hassle in upcoming multi-channel code.

Agreed.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-21  5:25 [RFC] mac80211: Don't let regulatory make us deaf Paul Stewart
2012-02-21  5:25 ` [RFCv2] " Paul Stewart
2012-02-21 18:01   ` Mahesh
2012-02-23 13:39   ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-23 14:53     ` Sam Leffler
2012-02-23 14:59       ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-23 15:14         ` Paul Stewart
2012-02-24  1:53           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-02-24  4:15             ` Paul Stewart
2012-02-21  5:25               ` [PATCH] " Paul Stewart
2012-02-24  4:25             ` [RFCv2] " Sam Leffler
2012-02-26 11:15   ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-26 11:25     ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-27 10:34       ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-27 11:32         ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2012-02-27 11:38           ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-27 13:46             ` Jouni Malinen
2012-03-07  5:46               ` Paul Stewart
2012-03-07  7:36                 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-07 18:40                   ` John W. Linville
2012-03-07 18:52                     ` Johannes Berg

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