[PATCH RESEND] hostapd: add VHT tx power envelope IE
Rajkumar Manoharan
rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com
Thu Nov 12 03:04:11 PST 2015
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:00:05PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:22:14PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > Add VHT transmit power envelope element defined in IEEE std
> > 802.11ac-2013 8.4.2.164 for VHT bandwidth channel switch.
>
> Please note that this has been renamed to "Transmit Power Envelope
> element" in REVmc (i.e., "VHT" removed from the name).
>
Will remove VHT in next version. Should I keep the spec. section as it
is?
[...]
> > + /*
> > + * Local Maximum Transmit power is encoded as 2's complement
> > + * with a 0.5 dB step
> > + */
> > + max_tx_power = ~(chan->max_tx_power * 2) + 1;
> > + *eid++ = max_tx_power;
> > + *eid++ = max_tx_power;
> > + *eid++ = max_tx_power;
>
> Could you please clarify why all three values are set to the same value?
> Would there be no case where the local maximum transmit power is
> different for 20, 40, and 80 MHz channel cases?
>
Since I do not find per bandwidth max tx power, I used the channel max
tx power for all bandwith. Is there a way to extract per-bw max tx power from
regulatory. Please help.
Will address your other comments in next version.
-Rajkumar
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