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Re: [PATCH 2/3] iwl3945: disable 11a support

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On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 15:45 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 02:40:19PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 14:31 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > > I don't believe if there still are users using 11a mode. If they are,
> > > they should probably update their network to something that was
> > > designed in current century, but I also left module option for them.
> > 
> > Huh? All of VHT etc. is going to use 5 GHz and will be compatible with
> > legacy clients, so having 11a support will allow them to connect to new
> > networks? Or am I midunderstanding what you're doing here?
> 
> Yes, this disable 5GHz for 3945. I assumed this is not and will not be
> used anymore, but seems I was wrong.
> 
> BTW: I'm not expect that 11ac AP will work good with 11a, i.e. I'm not
> able to connect to mixed network 11a & 11n on my 5GHz AP, but at least
> this should be theoretically possible. 
> 
> What I'm looking for is possibility to disable 5GHz to avoid network
> traffic delays while scanning, but this should be done in cfg80211.

Sounds more like a policy decision in wpa_s?

johannes

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