[PATCH 0/2] Rework disable_eht

Nicolas Escande nico.escande at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 08:41:38 PDT 2026


On Wed Mar 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM CET, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 3/4/26 06:39, Nicolas Escande wrote:
>> So the first patch is quite obvious, this add the missing bits to disable
>> EHT on a per nortwork basis like what was done for disable_he and others.
>> 
>> The second one adds a new compile time option CONFIG_HE_OVERRIDES to hide
>> all the disable_eht stuff like what we had for HT/VHT/HE with the dedicated
>> CONFIG_HT_OVERRIDES / CONFIG_VHT_OVERRIDES / CONFIG_HE_OVERRIDES
>> 
>> Si I know this one can be controvertial as it would mean existing users would
>> loose this unless they update their defconfig. But I think very few people
>> are using this and it is mostly for test purposes. So hopefully updating the
>> example defconfig should help too.
>
> Can you just enable the feature flag by default so that it is backwards
> compatible, yet lets users opt-out if they wish?
I was hopping to avoid that to align with how this was handled for HT/VHT/HE
But I undurstand the rationale.

Whatever Jouni decides is fine for me:
  - pick it as is
  - pick and edit the defonfig in the process to enable CONFIG_EHT_OVERRIDES
  - or I can send a v2 with the defconfig edited if need be

>
> Thanks,
> Ben



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