Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:49884 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752145Ab0EMGCf (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 02:02:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Parse channel_type in NL80211_CMD_JOIN_IBSS From: Johannes Berg To: Bruno Randolf Cc: Benoit Papillault , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <201005130956.25680.br1@einfach.org> References: <1273698460-18061-1-git-send-email-benoit.papillault@free.fr> <201005130956.25680.br1@einfach.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 08:02:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1273730552.3761.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 09:56 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2010 06:07:37 Benoit Papillault wrote: > > The channel_type field is filled by iw and parse by cfg80211 before > > being sent to mac80211 for instance (we also check if the specified > > channel is capable of ht40+, ht40- or ht20). This information is needed > > to properly configure an HT IBSS. > do you think this could also be used to configure "pure G" channels? remember > the discussion we had about the basic rate set in IBSS? if we could use this > to configure the channel as "pure G" we could use a basic rate set with higher > rates (ERP mandatory rates: 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 12, 24). i still need this > feature in order to configure higher-thruput G-only IBSS... No, that would be a basic/mandatory rateset configuration for a regular 20MHz channel. johannes