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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Let VHT work on 2.4Ghz
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:15:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CCCBE5.5040700@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160223210821.GA8062@w1.fi>

On 02/23/2016 01:08 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:10:27PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> What you really "want" is to use VHT modulations, mostly for the
>> dubious purpose of marketing benchmarks to reach 256-QAM modulations.
>>
>> I think the de-facto standard for this would be to use IEs similar to
>> VHT ones, encapsulated in some (Broadcom?) vendor IE. We may have to
>> work with that, but that's not what this patch does. Jouni had some
>> better idea how this worked, I think.
>
> hostapd has code to negotiate this using the vendor specific element. I
> think we ended up getting this working with AP side (i.e., ath10k on the
> AP) and if I've understood correctly, this does not need any additional
> changes on top of what is available in upstream kernel and hostapd.
>
> Station mode is something that may have been left open since this issue
> of what and how to advertise as capabilities came up and there was not
> strong enough push at the time to get more than AP side functional..

Hostapd and supplicant did not need any changes in my testing.

But, you *have* to modify the kernel or it will disable VHT no matter
what supplicant says...

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22 22:42 [PATCH] mac80211: Let VHT work on 2.4Ghz greearb
2016-02-22 22:48 ` Julian Calaby
2016-02-22 22:55   ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 10:47 ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-23 13:46   ` Ben Greear
2016-02-24  8:40     ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-24 13:24       ` Ben Greear
2016-02-24 13:32         ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-24 13:37           ` Ben Greear
2016-02-24 14:25             ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-23 14:10 ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-23 14:18   ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 14:22     ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-23 14:58       ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 21:08   ` Jouni Malinen
2016-02-23 21:15     ` Ben Greear [this message]

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