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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] wireless: return correct mandatory rates
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Richard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtz?= <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:52:06 +0200
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On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 18:07 +0200, Richard Schütz wrote:
> Use IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_G instead of IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_B
> to get
> all mandatory rates in 2.4 GHz band. It is safe to do so because ERP
> mandatory rates are a superset of HR/DSSS mandatory rates. Also limit
> to
> OFDM rates for 10 MHz and 5 MHz channels as originally intended by
> commit
> 74608aca4d82e.

I don't understand this. Why should all ERP (Clause 18, 11g) rates be
mandatory for the users of this?

The way I see it, this would make us assume that all 2.4 GHz clients
support ERP in IBSS, which may not be true?

johannes