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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: look for HT/VHT capabilities in beacon's tail
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:57:20 +0200
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References: <20170830205225.17228-1-igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
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On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 18:34 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 01:52:25PM -0700, igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna
> .com wrote:
> 
> > There are no HT/VHT capabilities in
> > cfg80211_ap_settings::beacon_ies,
> > these should be looked for in beacon's tail instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > This is true for hostapd (at least the one in mainline): it does
> > not
> > include HT/VHT caps and WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES into beacon_ies.
> > But worth noting that there is no clear documentation that I could
> > find
> > on what IEs could and could not be included into beacon_ies.
> > 
> >  net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Hello Johannes,
> 
> Any comments on this change ?

It's already in linux.git ...

johannes