[PATCH] Add Support for TPC and VHT-TPE IE's

[Krishna Chaitanya]

> Please do not merge independent changes into a single patch even if they
> are in similar category. It's much easier to review and manage shorter
> patches that add each add a specific change. In addition, there were
> quite a bit of whitespace damage in the changes. Please either fix your
> MUA to not break the patch or as a less preferred backup, send the patch
> as an attachment in addition to inline.
>
> I split the changes into three parts and cleaned them up to make it
> easier to review them (doing that before for contributions would be
> appreciated and likely to speed up the process of getting these into
> hostap.git). The following commits have number of TODO/FIX comments
> pointing out the changes that I think will be needed to make these work
> properly.

Thanks a lot Jouni for the comments. Will handle the comments and send them
as a 3 individual patches.

> FIX: ieee80211h configuration parameter is not appropriate way of
> deciding whether to add this to the Beacon/Probe Response frames since
> it is used for other purposes (enabling DFS support). In addition,
> hardcoding Local Power Constraint to 0 does not look good. Maybe add a
> new configuration parameter local_pwr_constraint and add this element
> only if that is set.


Accepted.


> FIX: ieee80211h is not appropriate parameter for selecting when spectrum
> management is marked required. A new spectrum_mgmt_required
> configuration parameter could be added to do this instead.

Accepted.


> TODO: Is use of 127 as the config-value-not-set appropritate? Would
> sound better to use int values in configuration and a unique
> value to indicate not set rather than re-use 127 which has a
> special meaning in the standard.

Agree that 127 has a special meaning but that meaning says there is
no local power constraint, so we can safely use it to not to include the
IE.

> TODO: It is not appropriate to use ieee80211h config parameter as a
> constraint for including this. Use vht_tpe_loc_20 parameter
> present/not-present for this instead.

Accepted.

> Add Transmit Power Envelope element per IEEE 802.11ac/D6.0 if VHT is
> enabled.

Sure, our patch was based on 5.0 will upgrade.