On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 04:01:54PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: >> This is is the most common mistake we see when new people try the hostapd. >> hw_mode is misleading to think that valid values are a/b/g/n/ac, its >> better to rename it as >> a freq_band don't you think? > > I don't see how freq_band would be any less confusing name especially > when there is hw_mode=b and hw_mode=g both of which are actually for the > 2.4 GHz band. We need to separate this in to technology and band like we do for ieee80211n, ieee80211ac we can have ieee80211a as well and can be disabled for 11n. > Furthermore, this this has been hw_mode for almost ten > years and that parameter is used in practically all deployed systems, so > there won't be much of a chance of this going away. Right, i guess its too late to ask for this change :-). > An alternative > configuration parameter could be added, but I'm not sure it's going to > make this any cleaner, i.e., whoever writes the configuration will need > to read documentation to understand how HT or VHT channels are > specified. Making the comments in hostapd.conf clearer is obviously a > helpful direction, though. Ideally yes, but i doubt most of non-wifi users do this. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
