Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:43460 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752777Ab0AURvl (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:51:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Add HT IE to IBSS beacons and probe responses. From: Johannes Berg To: Benoit PAPILLAULT Cc: austinxxh-linux@yahoo.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4B588FE8.9000705@free.fr> References: <856792.42713.qm@web55307.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <4B578BAB.9010608@free.fr> <1264065257.11396.32.camel@johannes.local> <4B588FE8.9000705@free.fr> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9chSiCXSXNTyjZw47hkY" Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:51:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1264096293.11396.61.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-9chSiCXSXNTyjZw47hkY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 18:33 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote: > There are things : > - HT Capabilities IE : this should be the hardware capabilities of the=20 > sender, be it a member of a HT IBSS or not. I wouldn't advertise that though when the IBSS we want is not HT. Less confusion that way. > - HT Information IE : this should be the BSS information, shared by all=20 > members of the HT IBSS I think. So we even need to adopt it, maybe? > BTW, currently, there is no way with iw for the user to tell mac82011 to=20 > join/create a non-HT, HT20, HT40+ or HT40- IBSS. Maybe we should update=20 > iw first as a requirement for HT IBSS? Indeed, we need nl80211/cfg80211 changes. johannes --=-9chSiCXSXNTyjZw47hkY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLWJQiAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaBnkP/3/K8cnnD3iaOmoxj6HVgc/R WS7btP49QAzk+7vm2rjaE15cqy6QHqWm8Y5kczEynRFyNBphnK+Egs4lfZy34H8q g6l24e6teQAasiyJAlacs0LhUCNJq4XONleIJZavTV7/7pomiHxbX/RD6KMMIi/z W6Gujj6Ecz+gisQ9dS7MQY+2YEx1FWMaawUFoX1A/isYPtN7ELJd9gpCMAsDnP5E KtMC87WjBYDtKNC9jT4l+vsgtrHvNglLHAi+F+ZVpsG9qDpg0MzGph2tjj8Bj/7X 4FbApInGWxnVA4kS77Ss9mAiUa++OIbf0BpTs+TWV+fxu3bBtTmqNB3NLOXlgqrc 6mYVNN49c1IcuRnkKjl4FLd3NbwNUCD0wNSPRnUKMEX/cpg+aTdvCu8Q9nRRUlkc gKPASsSGHbGnAWa5KaIouGMry1TS3vc9WWaEIckemNjRpwRy9WrnVgXWBMBoGf+e N1cLwCliRe3V51Rt5tRHhphh8oMuvha22pjfPtCjDUWqIlYGlnjoQfVfahMNvf6g dfvzHOiKpNmAvBJY64WV5BAAeCXAo/LhlpBlViimMk+mUSDw0CJEpgs2Cv/qFUJM 9h60vt/AJ5X+YseqgQvE8dfigGDyTXoLvherDCKyJuOvwY37nUPFfJSU/voOeQSF ZGKjawp0zXeSuKvt6Bh9 =H7uY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9chSiCXSXNTyjZw47hkY--