• Johannes Berg's avatar
    mac80211: don't track HT capability changes · b1b1ae2c
    Johannes Berg authored
    The code here (more or less accidentally) tracks the HT capability of
    the AP when connected, and we found at least one AP that erroneously
    toggles its 20/40 capability bit when changing between 20/40 MHz. The
    connection to the AP is then broken because we set the 40 MHz disable
    flag based on this, as soon as it switches to 20 MHz, but because the
    flag then changed, we disconnect.
    
    I'd be inclined to just ignore this issue, since we then reconnect
    while the AP is in 20 MHz mode and never use 40 MHz with it again,
    but this code is a bit strange anyway - we don't use the capabilities
    for anything else.
    
    Change the code to simply not track the HT capabilities at all, which
    assumes that the AP at least sets 20/40 capability when operating in
    40 MHz (or higher). If not, rate scaling might end up using only the
    narrower bandwidth.
    
    The new behaviour also mirrors what VHT does, where we only check the
    VHT operation.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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