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On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 01:19 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> In those scenarios, the rate control module minstrel_ht called from
> prep_connection throws a warning (in rate_control_send_low)
> because "supp_rates" is not set, since scan results are updated
>  through "cfg8011_bss_inform_frame" which doesn't call
> "ieee80211_bss_info_update'.
> 
> How do we handle such scenarios? Does the cfg80211 need to
> update the bss information in mac80211?

No. What are you smoking?

You're not supposed to even call cfg80211_bss_inform_frame() from a
mac80211-based driver. Just report the RX frame properly.

johannes