[PATCH 1/5] supplicant: Support disabling HE for stations.

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 08:18:37AM -0800, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
> Send a flag to the kernel with user has specified disable_he
> in supplicant config file.  Requires kernel patch to function
> as expected.

What kernel patch is that referring to?

> diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> @@ -5913,6 +5913,14 @@ static int nl80211_ht_vht_overrides(struct nl_msg *msg,
>  	}
>  #endif /* CONFIG_VHT_OVERRIDES */
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VHT_OVERRIDES
> +	if (params->disable_he) {
> +		wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "  * HE disabled");
> +		if (nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_ATTR_DISABLE_HE))
> +			return -1;
> +	}
> +#endif

Shouldn't that use CONFIG_HE_OVERRIDES?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA