Setting HT capabilities in net80211

[Rui Paulo]

On 11 Mar 2010, at 16:32, Alexander Egorenkov wrote:

> There are already constants defined in iee80211.h.
> E.g. IEEE80211_HTCAP_MCSFBACK_UNSOL.
>
> But the problem is that e.g. IEEE80211_HTCAP_MCSFBACK_UNSOL is equal  
> to 0x0200
> and the capabilty constant IEEE80211_HTCAP_RXSTBC_2STREAM has the  
> same value.
> So we cannot use ic_htcap field for both capabilities because they  
> will overwrite each other.
>
> But  we can add a new field to ieee80211com struct like ic_htextcaps  
> where all the extended
> HT capabilities can be set. And this new field can be checked in  
> function ieee80211_add_htcap_body.

I'm okay with this route.

> Another option is to change the value of  
> IEEE80211_HTCAP_MCSFBACK_UNSOL and all other extended capability  
> constant which conflict with normal HT capability constants.

I think you don't want to do this because sooner or later you'll need  
ic_htextcaps.

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Rui Paulo