[RFC 3/3] wpa_supplicant: Add configuration parameter for 2040coex

Rajkumar Manoharan rmanohar
Mon Apr 23 02:46:12 PDT 2012


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:02:05PM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:14:10PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > To enable 2040 coexistence report generation for 40MHz intolerance, use
> > the following option in wpa_supplicant config file.
> > 
> > report_2040coex=1
> 
> Why would this need to be configurable? Shouldn't we report these
> unconditionally? Or well, to be more exact, based on AP configuration
> and requests for OBSS scans, not on user configuration.
> 
Right now, the scan request is not differentiated between OBSS/regular (bgscan).
So to avoid the action frame being exchanged at the end of bgscan that could
bring down channel width in associated AP, I made it as configurable one. So
that it wont affect existing functionality.

-Rajkumar



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