Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:34044 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753924Ab1AGCjp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:39:45 -0500 Received: by iyi12 with SMTP id 12so15423979iyi.19 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:39:45 -0800 (PST) From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <19750.31960.215220.239389@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:09:20 +0530 To: Daniel Halperin Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [RFC v2] cfg80211: Add HT BSS attributes In-Reply-To: References: <19749.32067.311517.479374@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19749.37051.292861.996698@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19750.24410.495583.789895@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19750.30510.548719.848168@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Daniel Halperin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Sujith wrote: > > Daniel Halperin wrote: > >> Yeah, me too. ?Isn't greenfield mode (whether there are legacy devices > >> around) part of the operating capabilities and should be supported by > >> hostapd? > > > > Yes, hostapd does check if there are non-GF stations in the BSS and updates > > the HT operation mode parameters. But the nl80211 interface hook is currently > > not implemented. > > > > right.. so don't we want this patch? :) Sorry if I'm being obtuse The Greenfield status is part of opmode (see operation_mode in struct ieee80211_ht_info). This is already handled by mac80211 through NL80211_ATTR_BSS_HT_OPMODE for AP mode. Sujith