On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 -1000, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:48:10AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 19:36 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > > If the TX rate set has been masked, the removed rates can also be > > > removed from the Supported Rates and Extended Supported Rates IEs in > > > Probe Request frames. > > > > Technically, the probe request frame indicates RX bitrates. I don't > > really mind using the TX bitrates as well since typically I do think you > > probably want them to be symmetric, but shouldn't that come with nl80211 > > updates etc. since that's all saying TX_BITRATES? > > This change should really not be needed in the first place, but > unfortunately, P2P requires this for a compliant implementation.. The > field is really "Supported Rates", i.e., it would be used for both TX > and RX. I don't see any real point in configuring RX rates (i.e., make > hw not receive frames on one or more of the supported rates), so the TX > rate mask is the only reasonable configuration mechanism for this. > > The minimum requirement (for P2P compliance) is to just remove rates 1, > 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps from the list, so we could also add something to disable > 802.11b rates in general if a different command would be desired. Yes, so it's not really "RX rates" but "advertised RX rates". I just think that this fact should be made apparent in the documentation? 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
