From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "hostap@lists.shmoo.com" <hostap@lists.shmoo.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Support for bitrate-mask in wpa_supplicant?
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:08:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141004130858.GB2987@w1.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542D87F6.8090306@candelatech.com>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:14:30AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> From what I can tell, wpa_supplicant does not have a way to set
> the tx-bitrate-mask, except for some code
> to disable 802.11b rates (which I think will in turn (re)enable all
> of the other rates that may have previously been disabled.
>
> So, would it be worthwhile to add support to supplicant to at
> least configure the legacy rates using the NL80211_CMD_SET_TX_BITRATE_MASK
> netlink message?
Why would wpa_supplicant be involved in that? What kind of use case
would benefit from this (vs. setting this through iw, for example)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-04 13:09 UTC|newest]
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2014-10-02 17:14 Support for bitrate-mask in wpa_supplicant? Ben Greear
2014-10-04 13:08 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2014-10-04 14:40 ` Ben Greear
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