From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Alexei Avshalom Lazar <ailizaro@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qti.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nl80211: Add support for EDMG channels
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 16:03:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1eluvlg.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1557758554-18907-2-git-send-email-ailizaro@codeaurora.org> (Alexei Avshalom Lazar's message of "Mon, 13 May 2019 17:42:33 +0300")
Alexei Avshalom Lazar <ailizaro@codeaurora.org> writes:
> 802.11ay specification defines Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit
> (EDMG) STA and AP which allow channel bonding of 2 channels and more.
> Introduce NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_EDMG_CHANNELS,
> NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_EDMG_BW_CONFIG, NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_CHANNELS,
> NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_BW_CONFIG and RATE_INFO_FLAGS_EDMG
> that needed for enabling and configuring EDMG support.
> Driver is expected to report its EDMG capabilities: whether EDMG
> is supported and the supported EDMG channels.
> Bitrate calculation is enhanced to take into account EDMG support
> according to the 802.11ay specification.
> The kernel uses NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_CHANNELS and
> NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_BW_CONFIG attributes in order to publish
> the EDMG capabilities to the userspace.
> NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_CHANNELS is a bitmap field that indicates
> the 2.16 GHz channel(s) that are allowed to be used for transmissions
> in the BSS.
> If NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_CHANNELS is not set then EDMG not
> supported. NL80211_BAND_ATTR_EDMG_BW_CONFIG represent the allowed
> channel bandwidth configurations.
> NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_EDMG_CHANNELS and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_EDMG_BW_CONFIG
> will be used by the userspace for AP configuration and connect command.
>
> Change-Id: I534f4a750354a4b0baad28c47dc29afb9cbc36ac
No Change-Id in upstream patches. And please read:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches#signed-off-by_missing
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-20 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-13 14:42 [PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for new channels on 60GHz band Alexei Avshalom Lazar
2019-05-13 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] nl80211: Add support for EDMG channels Alexei Avshalom Lazar
2019-05-20 13:03 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2019-05-20 14:50 ` Alexei Avshalom Lazar
2019-05-13 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] wil6210: Add EDMG channel support Alexei Avshalom Lazar
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