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Re: Connection issues with BW Tracking in mac80211

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> The BW tracking feature in mac80211 is causing connection problems and
> operating mode/bw problems when switching b/w modes and bw's in AP.
>
> For Eg. Initially if AP is operating in VHT-80MHz, and then we changed
> in to HT-40MHz, mac80211 cannot handle it because the VHT capability
> is mismatched b/w stored info (ifmgd->flags).
>
> I have tried your DISABLE_BW_TRACK patch, that helps making the
> connection but it doesn't update the chipset causing issues.
>
> Ideally we should be able to handle all the config changes right?

Before that i have a basic question? Should we reset our tracking after
the connection is lost, in my case above the connection was lost (Config
change in A triggers a reboot), still mac80211 is tracking the BW changes?
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