[PATCH] hostapd: Don't mask out non-symmetric STA HT caps

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Thu Jun 23 13:18:56 EDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:03:46AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Previously hostapd just masked the STAs HT caps with its own. However,
> some HT caps are not symmetric and as such need to be handled
> different.
> 
> hostapd shouldn't overwrite the STAs SMPS mode as otherwise the driver
> cannot know it has to use RTS/CTS to wake the receiver from dynamic
> SMPS for MCS rates > 7.
> 
> hostapd shouldn't mask the RX and TX STBC caps with it's own. They are
> already handled in a special case below.

Thanks, applied.

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