Return-path: Received: from mail.w1.fi ([212.71.239.96]:35491 "EHLO li674-96.members.linode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbaJDNJD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:09:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:08:58 +0300 From: Jouni Malinen To: Ben Greear Cc: "hostap@lists.shmoo.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Support for bitrate-mask in wpa_supplicant? Message-ID: <20141004130858.GB2987@w1.fi> (sfid-20141004_150909_224420_F6679960) References: <542D87F6.8090306@candelatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <542D87F6.8090306@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:14:30AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > From what I can tell, wpa_supplicant does not have a way to set > the tx-bitrate-mask, except for some code > to disable 802.11b rates (which I think will in turn (re)enable all > of the other rates that may have previously been disabled. > > So, would it be worthwhile to add support to supplicant to at > least configure the legacy rates using the NL80211_CMD_SET_TX_BITRATE_MASK > netlink message? Why would wpa_supplicant be involved in that? What kind of use case would benefit from this (vs. setting this through iw, for example)? -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA