Subject: RE: mac80211 20/40 coexist
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "Manoharan, Rajkumar" <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:32:34 +0100
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On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 10:09 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:

> > Also, in order to actually implement it in AP mode we need to use the
> > "RC update only".
> > 
> > I think it makes more sense to unify the handling here -- change rate
> > control (and also tell the driver, like one of my patches did) rather
> > than treating 20/40 changes in managed mode differently than in AP mode.
> 
> Agreed.

So what should we do with ath9k_htc? As I understood you, it relies on
the no-longer updated global channel type?

IOW -- I don't think the patches we were discussing break it, Paul's
patch would already have broken it. However my patch with the new
callback could help you fix it?

johannes