[PATCH 07/12] wifi: mt76: mt7996: set correct beamformee SS capability

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Mon Aug 19 07:22:56 PDT 2024


On 8/16/24 02:46, Shayne Chen wrote:
> From: Howard Hsu <howard-yh.hsu at mediatek.com>
> 
> According to IEEE P802.11be/D6.0 Table 9-417n, beamformee SS field stands
> for the maximum number of spatial streams that the STA can receive in an
> EHT sounding NDP minus 1, and the minimum value of this field is 3.
> 
> This value indicates the decoding capability of a beamformee, which is
> independent of current antenna settings. Correct the value for mt7996
> and mt7992 chipsets based on their HW capability.

I thought that if user sets a specific number of antennas, the code should
act as if that were the number of physical antennas, so this change seems
wrong to me.

What use-case is this patch attempting to fix?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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