From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:57691 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751733Ab1KHTRV (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:17:21 -0500 Received: from [192.168.100.111] (firewall.candelatech.com [70.89.124.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns3.lanforge.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id pA8JHKhC026610 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:17:21 -0800 Message-ID: <4EB98040.3020608@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111108_201724_409790_45209EDA) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:17:20 -0800 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides. References: <1320778857-3073-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <1320778857-3073-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/08/2011 11:00 AM, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > From: Ben Greear > > 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 > --- > > 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 -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com