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Subject: Re: VHT support, take 2
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:21:33 +0100
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On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 21:17 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> What I intend to do next is this have a patch to parse the VHT
> operation IE in mac80211 (or have a helper in cfg80211?) to
> select the VHT channel configuration in MLME code.
> 
> I'm kinda hoping the posedge folks will come back with the
> regulatory code so I don't have to worry about that ...
> *hint hint* :-)
> 
> After that, I'll need to work on the remaining hostapd code,
> that should just need channel configuration etc. now. Then I
> think it just needs a good test run.
> 
> I'm not interested in VHT IBSS, so I'm not going to do anything
> there, nor VHT mesh.
> 
> The other thing would be rate control, e.g. minstrel_vht, but
> I'm not sure we can use minstrel at all, so I'll probalby not
> work on minstrel myself.

Oh and then of course there's also a whole bunch of action frame
handling that will be needed in mac80211, but I'm not really sure yet
what that actually is.

johannes