Fail setting up P2P connection with VHT-80MHz

[Blanquicet-Melendez Jose (MM)]

Hi,

I am working on a PATCH to enable VHT when setting up an AP mode operation. Looking how it is done for p2p-go, I tried to enable VHT 80MHz for P2P operation but suddenly it did not work appropriately. I used the following configuration from wpa_cli:

p2p_connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX pbc go_intent=15 freq=5180 max_oper_chwidth=80 ht40 vht

The connection finished successfully but it did not set 80 MHz. I checked it by looking at the IEs of the beacons and I saw that 40 MHz was there. But, in the VHT Operation IE the value for the Channel Width was 0 (20 MHz or 40 MHz operating channel width) instead of 1 (80 MHz).

I had a look at the code for setting 80MHz as channel width and I found that it fails when it checks if all the involved channels are available, in p2p_supplicant.c, wpas_p2p_verify_80mhz(). In particular I noticed that it fails because the channels do not have the flags HOSTAPD_CHAN_VHT_*, they only have HOSTAPD_CHAN_HT40, HOSTAPD_CHAN_HT40PLUS and/or HOSTAPD_CHAN_HT40MINUS. What is the propose of the flags HOSTAPD_CHAN_VHT_*?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Jose Blanquicet

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