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Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mac80211: Allow overriding some HT information.

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On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 09:27 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > So I still stand by what I said earlier -- you should not allow
> > advertising a smaller value than the hardware wanted to use initially.
> > If the AP doesn't use that smaller value, all is well, but if it
> > actually uses a smaller value then the hardware might fall over.
> 
> Ok, I'll add that restriction.  When this all settles, maybe I
> can get some info from the ath9k folks about what their hardware
> can actually support.

There's little point in advertising something bigger than the HW
supports, so I'd say that's the smallest :-)
(ok, so this might be for hw crypto, etc., but ath9k could advertise a
smaller value when hw crypto is disabled for example)

johannes

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