[PATCH v2] hostap: Support ht-cap over-rides.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Sat Nov 19 04:48:52 EST 2011


On 11/19/2011 01:05 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:49:49PM -0800, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>> This allows ht-capabilities over-rides on kernels that
>> support these features.
>
> These look quite complex.. I could kind of understand disabling HT
> completely for some cases where there are interop issues, but where
> would normal users need any of the more detailed overrides?

I'm not sure...my use-case is for testing APs primarily.

Maybe setting rates to a lower value would help reliability
in some cases, and tuning the aggregation may also allow
users to decrease latency (at a cost of throughput)?

Is there any particular bit that seems complex to you?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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