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On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 12:19 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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.

I'm not convinced this is the right thing to do -- we kinda do/did the
same thing but we want to change TX bandwidth for the AP peer, not RX
(channel) bandwidth.

johannes

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