Re: [PATCH] mesh: HE: Don't enable HE on 5GHz without VHT

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The commit ad9a1bfe788e ("nl80211: Share VHT channel configuration for HE")
> always enforced that VHT is enabled when HE was enabled. This broke the
> mesh functionality on 2.4GHz with HE because ibss_mesh_setup_freq() isn't
> setting up the VHT parameters for 2.4GHz.
> 
> This problem was resolved for 2.4GHz by commit df4f959988b6 ("nl80211:
> Don't force VHT channel definition with HE"). But it is still possible to
> disable VHT during the mesh/IBSS freq setup on 5GHz - which would result in
> the same problem as seen on 2.4GHz.
> 
> The code enabling HE for IBSS/mesh must now make sure that it doesn't
> enable HE when VHT could be enforced by the nl80211 driver code but
> disabled by the user.

Thanks, applied.
 
-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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