From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:40:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16c243667a8.279b.9b12b7fc0a3841636cfb5e919b41b954@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbacce3dd78c2154ee21c4f26f76a18a18349f45.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On July 24, 2019 11:35:14 AM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> Hi Arend,
>
>
>
>
> After all the discussion, I think we want this?
I think so yes. Even if it is just informational for user-space it seems to
make sense for kernel side.
> Care to resend?
Will do.
> I think I want it at least because we shouldn't advertise HT/VHT on 6
> GHz as is (just as part of HE) and that's easier if we have a different
> band enum, for the capability storage...
Right.
>
>> The only place I could find an
>> issue with this is in cfg80211_wext_freq(). Not sure how to deal with
>> that so it is not part of this series.
>
> Just finally break wext and say if you want to use 6 GHz you need to use
> nl80211? :)
Probably is true for he support as well. Not sure. Have not been using wext
for the last decade ;-)
Regards,
Arend
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-24 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-25 11:10 [RFC V2 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 1/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band definition to enum nl80211_band Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 2/8] cfg80211: add 6GHz UNII band definitions Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 3/8] cfg80211: util: add 6GHz channel to freq conversion and vice versa Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 4/8] cfg80211: extend ieee80211_operating_class_to_band() for 6GHz Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 5/8] cfg80211: add 6GHz in code handling array with NUM_NL80211_BANDS entries Arend van Spriel
2019-06-28 13:03 ` Johannes Berg
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 6/8] cfg80211: use same IR permissive rules for 6GHz band Arend van Spriel
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 7/8] cfg80211: ibss: use 11a mandatory rates for 6GHz band operation Arend van Spriel
2019-06-28 13:04 ` Johannes Berg
2019-06-28 21:36 ` Igor Mitsyanko
2019-06-25 11:10 ` [RFC V2 8/8] cfg80211: apply same mandatory rate flags for 5GHz and 6GHz Arend van Spriel
2019-07-24 9:35 ` [RFC V2 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support Johannes Berg
2019-07-24 13:40 ` Arend Van Spriel [this message]
2019-07-24 13:46 ` Johannes Berg
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