HT rate set in net80211 not changeable for STA

[Sam Leffler]

Alexander Egorenkov wrote:
> And is any API in planning that would make it possible to change the
> advertised HT rate set by STA during run time and not at compile time ? E.g.
> ieee80211_set_ht_rateset :-)
> 
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6 Feb 2010, at 08:28, Alexander Egorenkov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the HT rate set advertized by a STA is hardcoded in net80211
>>> and the maximum MCS is 15, but my device also supports MCS32 (HT
>> duplicate
>>> mode).
>>> Is there a possibility to change the HT rates set advertized by  a STA
>>> except changing
>>> the code and recompiling net80211 stack ?
>> Not really.

The advertised rate set should be initially set according to the 
capabilities of the device.  There were no devices > 2x2 when I wrote 
the code so MCS15 is the max.  To support such devices you need to do 
more than just grow the rateset.

Making the rate set user-controllable would be ok to add but probably 
used only for testing.

	Sam