[PATCH v2] ath10k: remove VHT capabilities from 2.4GHz

Valo, Kalle kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri May 6 11:08:51 PDT 2016


Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
>
> According to the spec, VHT doesn't exist in 2.4GHz.
>
> There are vendor extensions to allow a subset of VHT to work
> (notably 256-QAM), but since mac80211 doesn't support those
> advertising VHT capability on 2.4GHz leads to the behaviour
> of reporting VHT capabilities but not being able to use any
> of them due to mac80211's code requiring 80 MHz support.
>
> Remove the VHT capabilities from 2.4GHz for now. If mac80211
> gets extended to use the (likely Broadcom) vendor IEs for it
> and handles the lack of 80 MHz support, it can be added back.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo


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