Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: VHT peer STA caps

[Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>]

On 9/26/2012 5:23 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> you mean to say some drivers which dont provide its own VHT caps, will
>> use remote STA VHT caps as its own?
>> If so I feel not correct posing remote STA caps as local caps.
>
> No, no. If you look at HT, then you'll see that if the driver has HT but
> isn't capable of doing everything the peer STA can do, then mac80211
> restricts tells the driver

Sorry. Where is it telling the driver? I couldn't find this part of code 
in mac80211, could you point me?

> only about the peer capabilities that the
> device can do as well.
>
> I agree that this isn't really necessary and can be rather complex in
> VHT, but I think you need to document the difference very clearly in the
> documentation for the ieee80211_sta VHT caps.

Can this go as different patch? take my v2 patch as framework. More 
implementation of vht.c at later point of time?

>
> johannes
>

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Thanks,
Mahesh