[PATCH v2] ath10k: remove VHT capabilities from 2.4GHz

Valo, Kalle kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Apr 26 05:03:03 PDT 2016


Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 08:15 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> The thing is, it actually works just fine with the patch I posted
>> to fix mac80211, and at any rate, even if the mac80211 patch isn't
>> applied, the ath10k driver works just fine in HT mode.
>
> This patch has no implications on HT, and I wasn't planning on applying
> the mac80211 patch.

Yeah, makes sense. I'm planning to apply this soon.

> As I said, I have no objections to doing the (Broadcom) vendor specific
> IEs for "VHT" in 2.4 GHz band, but I don't think we should advertise
> the spec IEs when they're explicitly specified to be used only in the
> 5.2 GHz band.

But we really should have this, any volunteers? :) I think it shouldn't
be too hard to do so this would be a good project for someone looking
for a simple, but useful, task on wireless stack.

-- 
Kalle Valo


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