Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 11/08/2011 11:00 AM, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
> and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
> drivers that support it.
>
> The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
> are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.
>
> Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
> take no affect, but will not return errors.  This is to aid
> backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
> clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.
>
> This patch only enables the infrastructure.  An additional
> patch will enable the feature in mac80211.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
> ---
>
> v7:  Add detailed comments about what is supported in the
>       HT_CAPABILITY_MASK attribute.
>
>       Add call to cfg80211_oper_and_ht_capa() in the
>       __cfg80211_connect path to make sure non mac80211
>       drivers get proper masking.

Damn, I messed this up.  Hold for v8.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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