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On 18 March 2012 03:19, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure I can believe this -- surely the firmware has to have a way
> of dealing with stations that can't do 40 MHz and stations that can, so
> switching between the two doesn't seem like a major proposal? We also
> don't currently handle the action frames for that, but it seems like we
> should.
>
> Note, however, that we're now discussing something already done --
> Paul's patch already removed the channel type update when all we wanted
> was update the RC.

When are stations being notified of a CWM change?

I know FreeBSD handles it with a big stick at the moment - it just
does a full interface reset and channel change. I don't necessarily
like it, but I haven't yet sat down to look at when and why this is
occuring.


Adrian
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