On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 10:35 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 06:29:38PM +0000, Peer, Ilan wrote: > > According to the 802.11ac amendment: "The IEEE 802.11 VHT STA operates in frequency bands below 6 GHz excluding the 2.4 GHz band", so at least the spec. is clear about it. However, I guess it would be possible to enable VHT for 2.4 as well to enjoy some of benefits, but do you see a reason/use case to enable it also for hwsim? > > It does not matter what the standard says on VHT in general; there are > clearly already products out there that allow some capabilities defined > in 802.11ac (mainly, 256-QAM) to be used on the 2.4 GHz band. Sure. > As far as > hwsim is concerned, I'm already using it to verify the negotiation part > for this (see ap_vht_on_24ghz test case). Oh, I guess I can't apply this patch then. But perhaps we should make this an optional capability so we can create a new virtual radio with/without it. > The main remaining question > for cfg80211/nl80211 is on whether we can come up with a clean way of > advertising driver capability for doing this. I'm not even sure what the question really is. Really you want just high MCSes, but what should happen OTA? Is interoperability even *desired*, given that it will never be tested? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
