mac80211: Interoperability workaround for 80+80 and 160 MHz channels
Number of deployed 80 MHz capable VHT stations that do not support 80+80 and 160 MHz bandwidths seem to misbehave when trying to connect to an AP that advertises 80+80 or 160 MHz channel bandwidth in the VHT Operation element. To avoid such issues with deployed devices, modify the design based on recently accepted IEEE 802.11 standard changes (*). This allows poorly implemented VHT 80 MHz stations to connect with the AP in 80 MHz mode. 80+80 and 160 MHz capable stations need to support the new workaround mechanism to allow full bandwidth to be used. However, there are more or less no impacted station with 80+80/160 capability deployed. The rebased version of this patch is based on the updated version from Johannes Berg to take the HT/VHT chandef refactoring into account. (*) Changes in https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1530-04-000m-vht160-operation-signaling-through-non-zero-ccfs1.docx were accepted during the IEEE 802.11 January 2016 meeting. Signed-off-by:Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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