[PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add support to configure 6GHz non-ht duplicate transmission

[Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:34 PM
> To: Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC) <quic_ramess at quicinc.com>
> Cc: linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org; ath11k at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add support to configure 6GHz non-ht
> duplicate transmission
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> On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 13:50 +0000, Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC) wrote:
> > >
> > So, Suggestion here is to add a new NL attribute to carry the
> > information from user space for START_AP and SET_BEACON NL commands
> > and use it here, is that understanding correct ?
> >
> 
> Well, I was thinking it would reasonably come with the beacon rate, i.e.
> as a new attribute like NL80211_TXRATE_DUP?
Sorry not getting this, you mean hostapd would need to send new set of rates for this configuration ?
The expectation is that user-space will set this bit in HE oper IE only if legacy rates are present in beacon or basic rates.
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> johannes