2022-03-24 02:11:14

by Aloka Dixit

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nl80211: advertise RU puncturing support to userspace

On 3/23/2022 12:16 PM, Aloka Dixit wrote:
> RU preamble puncturing is allowed for bandwidths more that 80 MHz
> except 80+80. Drivers may not support puncturing at all or have
> restrictions for a minimum bandwidth.
> Add new attribute NL80211_ATTR_RU_PUNCT_SUPP_BW to advertise the
> driver support to the userspace. Default value (0) will indicate that
> RU puncturing is not supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2: Moved boundary check for ru_punct_supp_bw to wiphy_register().
>

These patches depend on EHT support from
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/?series=614176&state=%2A&archive=both
which are not yet present in mac80211-next tree.
But found those in wireless-next tree hence I used the same repository.


2022-03-24 15:48:19

by Johannes Berg

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nl80211: advertise RU puncturing support to userspace

On Wed, 2022-03-23 at 13:45 -0700, Aloka Dixit wrote:
> On 3/23/2022 12:16 PM, Aloka Dixit wrote:
> > RU preamble puncturing is allowed for bandwidths more that 80 MHz
> > except 80+80. Drivers may not support puncturing at all or have
> > restrictions for a minimum bandwidth.
> > Add new attribute NL80211_ATTR_RU_PUNCT_SUPP_BW to advertise the
> > driver support to the userspace. Default value (0) will indicate that
> > RU puncturing is not supported.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > v2: Moved boundary check for ru_punct_supp_bw to wiphy_register().
> >
>
> These patches depend on EHT support from
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/?series=614176&state=%2A&archive=both
> which are not yet present in mac80211-next tree.
>

There's no mac80211-next tree anymore. Well, it exists, but we've moved
to a combined tree in wireless-next.

johannes