Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: indicate support for 60GHz channels

On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 12:06 -0300, Ramon Fontes wrote:

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Advertise 60GHz channels to mac80211.

Oh.. That was a mistake. Sorry for that.

Anyway, can we indicate 60GHz support even though it is not being
supported by mac80211 yet?

No, that makes no sense. DMG operation is significantly different from
non-DMG operation, even the A-MSDU format for example (an abbreviated
format called "short A-MSDU" is used in DMG). Similarly beacons, etc.,
all kinds of operations are significantly different.

Adding 60 GHz channels to hwsim would be essentially operating as non-
DMG yet on a DMG channel, which makes no sense.

I don't think anyone's planning to add DMG support to mac80211, and in
the absence of a real driver requiring that it wouldn't make sense
anyway. Quite possibly, it simply doesn't make sense period, because DMG
operation is sufficiently different.

johannes