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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix broken use of VHT/20Mhz with some APs

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On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 22:37 +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Eyal Shapira <eyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit "mac80211: disable 40MHz support in case of 20MHz AP"
> broke working VHT in 20Mhz with APs like Netgear R6300v2 which
> do not publish support for 40Mhz but allow use of VHT in 20Mhz.
> The break is because VHT is disabled once no HT cap doesn't indicate
> support for 40Mhz. This causes the assoc request to be sent without
> any VHT IE and the association is only HT due to this.
> 
> For more details check out commit 4a817aa7
> "mac80211: allow VHT with peers not capable of 40MHz"

Applied.

johannes

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