[PATCH 1/2] nl80211: Allow HE MCS rate selection for beacon frame

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Feb 7 18:14:14 EST 2021


On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:31:15AM -0700, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Allow HE MCS rate to be used for beacon transmission when the driver
> advertises the support.

Thanks, both applied.

> diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> @@ -4182,7 +4183,10 @@ static int nl80211_put_beacon_rate(struct nl_msg *msg, const u64 flags,
>  	case HOSTAPD_MODE_IEEE80211A:
> -		band = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_BAND_5GHZ);
> +		if (is_6ghz_freq(params->freq->freq))
> +			band = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_BAND_6GHZ);
> +		else
> +			band = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_BAND_5GHZ);

This does not seem to belong into this patch, so I moved it into a
separate commit.
 
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