[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: Monday, March 21, 2022 2:28 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
> 
> On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 05:12 +0000, Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC) wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am wondering though if this should even be detected from the HE
> > > operation element itself, rather than from the beacon rate settings
> > > that are separate in nl80211?
> > This is a BW dependent bit in HE Oper IE and user space can switch BW
> > (CSA/chan switch scenarios).
> > Which can call assign_beacon directly, Hence adding the logic here to
> > cover all Beacon change cases.
> >
> 
> Yeah but still ... why do we take it from the content rather than adding a
> control for it?
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 ?
> 
> johannes