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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211:  allow overriding station bandwidth.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:47:21 +0100
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On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 13:01 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 
> This allows one to disable VHT160 (or 80+80) on hardware
> that might otherwise try to use it.  One potential reason
> to do this is that at least some 160Mhz/80+80 hardware can
> only do 2x2 at 160Mhz, but can do 4x4 at 80Mhz.  And, due to
> driver and firmware issues, it may effectively be limitted
> to 1x1 at 160Mhz for some NICs.

I think the feature is acceptable and don't mind adding that (though
perhaps we should start thinking about making some of these things
debug-only features), but I think the description of why you might want
to do this is misleading - those issues you're describing really should
be solved differently, and I posted the basis for that yesterday.

johannes