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RE: [PATCH v2] wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver

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Hi Johannes,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:05 AM
> To: Bing Zhao
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; John W. Linville; Joe Perches; Nishant Sarmukadam; Amitkumar
> Karwar; Kiran Divekar; Yogesh Powar; Marc Yang; Ramesh Radhakrishnan; Frank Huang
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I have a question regarding the 11n 20MHz/40MHz channel width
> > configuration:
> >
> > Since the 802.11n Draft 2.0 System Interoperability Test Plan v1.1
> > requires the default configuration being set to 20MHz, is there any
> > way to set the channel width to 40MHz at run-time?
> 
> In mac80211 have a module parameter "ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz"
> which, for backward compatibility reasons, actually defaults to false,
> so you need to set it to true to get a compliant system. When a system
> is integrated, this parameter can be set as default.

Thanks for the info.

> 
> I don't think it really is necessary to set this at runtime.
> 
> I guess I see two options:
>  1) move the module parameter to cfg80211, and check the sdata HT config
>     in the driver again when this is needed
>  2) have your own module parameter like it

I will try option 1) after the debugfs cleanups.

Regards,

Bing

> 
> The first would be slightly more generic, but an OEM integrating a
> device into their system and doing WFA testing will do device-specific
> things anyway ...
> 
> johannes
> 

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