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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Add HT IE to IBSS beacons and probe responses.

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On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:02 +0200, Benoit Papillault wrote:

> I thought again about 2 HT STA joining a non-HT IBSS. If we want those 2 
> STA to be able to send/receive HT frames then they must know each other 
> capabilities. So HT Capabilities should be sent if ht_supported = true, 
> even if channel_type is CHAN_NO_HT

That has interesting protection requirements. How do we take care of
those?

> I did some patch in this area in my tree. Basically, the peer STA is 
> created only on beacon/probe response since only those frames contains 
> peer capabilities. Any frames received before is simply ignored.

I'll let you discuss that with Bruno. I think we may need to "upgrade"
to HT on receiving that, rather than leaving us without connectivity to
that peer.

johannes

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