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Re: [PATCH v2] ath10k: remove VHT capabilities from 2.4GHz

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Valo, Kalle <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 08:15 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>
>>> The thing is, it actually works just fine with the patch I posted
>>> to fix mac80211, and at any rate, even if the mac80211 patch isn't
>>> applied, the ath10k driver works just fine in HT mode.
>>
>> This patch has no implications on HT, and I wasn't planning on applying
>> the mac80211 patch.
>
> Yeah, makes sense. I'm planning to apply this soon.
>
>> As I said, I have no objections to doing the (Broadcom) vendor specific
>> IEs for "VHT" in 2.4 GHz band, but I don't think we should advertise
>> the spec IEs when they're explicitly specified to be used only in the
>> 5.2 GHz band.
>
> But we really should have this, any volunteers? :) I think it shouldn't
> be too hard to do so this would be a good project for someone looking
> for a simple, but useful, task on wireless stack.
Are these Broadcom IEs documented somewhere? If yes,
then its a matter of parsing them and adding support to
minstrel_ht, isn't it? major work would be in minstrel.
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