VHT 160Mhz and nss related config.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Mon Feb 13 11:42:07 PST 2017


On 02/13/2017 11:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>>> This was recently added to the VHT capabilities in the spec, see
>>> Table 9-250 in 802.11-2016.
>
>> I don't have that spec...maybe you could post a patch that adds that
>> flag and/or other fields to the appropriate header files?  I can
>> attempt to add support to ath10k after that...
>
> We're planning to, but it's not the most important thing on my list
> right now ... I'll check where that's at now.
>
> I can't even easily explain it, since it's really complicated.

So, think it is worthwhile to use the max-rx-rate as a proxy
until the 'real' spec is implemented?  If 2x2 160Mhz is super complicated,
and yields no useful throughput improvement, then likely it will
be a long time before someone implements it properly I'd guess.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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