[PATCH] hostapd: enable STBC only for STBC capable STAs

Helmut Schaa helmut.schaa
Fri May 28 03:13:19 PDT 2010


hostapd simply used its own STBC configuration in the STAs ht caps. This
resulted in TX STBC being used for STAs not supporting RX STBC, wich in turn
resulted in the STA not receiving anything.

Fix this by handling the STBC flags in the same way mac80211 does. Mask out
RX STBC if we don't support TX STBC and vice versa.

Tested only with the nl80211 driver and a STBC incapable STA.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa at googlemail.com>
---
 src/ap/ieee802_11_ht.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ap/ieee802_11_ht.c b/src/ap/ieee802_11_ht.c
index 1b39a6a..b193ee0 100644
--- a/src/ap/ieee802_11_ht.c
+++ b/src/ap/ieee802_11_ht.c
@@ -256,7 +256,15 @@ void hostapd_get_ht_capab(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
 	cap &= hapd->iconf->ht_capab;
 	cap |= (hapd->iconf->ht_capab & HT_CAP_INFO_SMPS_DISABLED);
 
-	/* FIXME: Rx STBC needs to be handled specially */
-	cap |= (hapd->iconf->ht_capab & HT_CAP_INFO_RX_STBC_MASK);
+	/*
+	 * STBC needs to be handled specially
+	 * if we don't support RX STBC, mask out TX STBC in the STA's HT caps
+	 * if we don't support TX STBC, mask out RX STBC in the STA's HT caps
+	 */
+	if (!(hapd->iconf->ht_capab & HT_CAP_INFO_RX_STBC_MASK))
+		cap &= ~HT_CAP_INFO_TX_STBC;
+	if (!(hapd->iconf->ht_capab & HT_CAP_INFO_TX_STBC))
+		cap &= ~HT_CAP_INFO_RX_STBC_MASK;
+
 	neg_ht_cap->ht_capabilities_info = host_to_le16(cap);
 }
-- 
1.6.4.2




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