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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: reject/clear user rate mask if not usable
To:     Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kirtika@google.com,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
        linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org, ath11k@lists.infradead.org,
        ath10k@lists.infradead.org
References: <20170308132022.4216-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
 <07179008e9369bc81e152009ca85191d@codeaurora.org>
From:   Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Message-ID: <5decc452-7b2a-db1d-c5eb-04ab6bb61553@broadcom.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:49:41 +0100
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On 11/12/2020 11:55 AM, Wen Gong wrote:
> On 2017-03-08 21:20, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>>

[...]

>> @@ -2685,6 +2686,21 @@ static int ieee80211_set_bitrate_mask(struct
>> wiphy *wiphy,
>>              return ret;
>>      }
>>
>> +    /*
>> +     * If active validate the setting and reject it if it doesn't leave
>> +     * at least one basic rate usable, since we really have to be able
>> +     * to send something, and if we're an AP we have to be able to do
>> +     * so at a basic rate so that all clients can receive it.
>> +     */
>> +    if (rcu_access_pointer(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf) &&
>> +        sdata->vif.bss_conf.chandef.chan) {
>> +        u32 basic_rates = sdata->vif.bss_conf.basic_rates;
>> +        enum nl80211_band band = sdata->vif.bss_conf.chandef.chan->band;
>> +
>> +        if (!(mask->control[band].legacy & basic_rates))
>> +            return -EINVAL;
> If user want to use “iw wlan0 set bitrates legacy-5 54” to set it to 
> fixed in 54M and 54M is
> not basic rate in AP's becaon as example of below, then the iw command 
> will fail.

Which was the intent of this change, wasn't it? You want to allow anyway 
or you want a clear error message as to why it fails?

Regards,
Arend

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