Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 4 authors, 2018-01-30

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] wireless: return correct mandatory rates

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2017-09-21 13:52:08

On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 18:07 +0200, Richard Schütz wrote:
Use IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_G instead of IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_B
to get
all mandatory rates in 2.4 GHz band. It is safe to do so because ERP
mandatory rates are a superset of HR/DSSS mandatory rates. Also limit
to
OFDM rates for 10 MHz and 5 MHz channels as originally intended by
commit
74608aca4d82e.
I don't understand this. Why should all ERP (Clause 18, 11g) rates be
mandatory for the users of this?

The way I see it, this would make us assume that all 2.4 GHz clients
support ERP in IBSS, which may not be true?

johannes
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