[PATCH] hostapd: for VHT 20/40, allow center segment 0 to be zero

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri Mar 14 18:23:50 EDT 2014


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:54:20AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> The 802.11ac amendment specifies that that the center segment 0 field
> is reserved, so it should be zero. Hostapd previously required it to
> be set, which is likely a good idea for interoperability, but allow it
> to be unset. However, don't allow it to be set to a random value, only
> allow zero and the correct channel.
> 
> Add a test case for this. This was found through a mac80211 bug which
> didn't correctly accept a center segment 0 value of zero, so the test
> will fail until the mac80211 bug is fixed.

Thanks, applied.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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