Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Ignore VHT IE from peer with wrong rx_mcs_map

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 16:38 +0200, Filip Matusiak wrote:

This is a workaround for VHT-enabled STAs which break the spec
and have the VHT-MCS Rx map filled in with value 3 for all eight
spacial streams.

As per spec, in section 22.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY
A VHT STA shall support at least single spactial stream VHT-MCSs
0 to 7 (transmit and receive) in all supported channel widths.

Interesting, and also kinda dumb :)

+	/*
+	 * This is a workaround for VHT-enabled STAs which break the

I find that it helps, in the future, if we know an example of a station
that did this, so we can test other implementations etc. Can you change
the comment accordingly?

johannes