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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: make RATE_INFO_BW_20 the default

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  4 May 2017 08:42:30 +0200

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Due to the way I did the RX bitrate conversions in mac80211 with
> spatch, going setting flags to setting the value, many drivers now
> don't set the bandwidth value for 20 MHz, since with the flags it
> wasn't necessary to (there was no 20 MHz flag, only the others.)
> 
> Rather than go through and try to fix up all the drivers, instead
> renumber the enum so that 20 MHz, which is the typical bandwidth,
> actually has the value 0, making those drivers all work again.
> 
> If VHT was hit used with a driver not reporting it, e.g. iwlmvm,
> this manifested in hitting the bandwidth warning in
> cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_vht().
> 
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Since Jens Axboe had the same problem and tested this patch, I'm
tossing it into my tree.

Just FYI...



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