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    • Paul Stewart's avatar
      mac80211: Don't let regulatory make us deaf · 3117bbdb
      Paul Stewart authored
      When regulatory information changes our HT behavior (e.g,
      when we get a country code from the AP we have just associated
      with), we should use this information to change the power with
      which we transmit, and what channels we transmit.  Sometimes
      the channel parameters we derive from regulatory information
      contradicts the parameters we used in association.  For example,
      we could have associated specifying HT40, but the regulatory
      rules we apply may forbid HT40 operation.
      
      In the situation above, we should reconfigure ourselves to
      transmit in HT20 only, however it makes no sense for us to
      disable receive in HT40, since if we associated with these
      parameters, the AP has every reason to expect we can and
      will receive packets this way.  The code in mac80211 does
      not have the capability of sending the appropriate action
      frames to signal a change in HT behaviour so the AP has
      no clue we can no longer receive frames encoded this way.
      In some broken AP implementations, this can leave us
      effectively deaf if the AP never retries in lower HT rates.
      
      This change breaks up the channel_type parameter in the
      ieee80211_enable_ht function into a separate receive and
      transmit part.  It honors the channel flags set by regulatory
      in order to configure the rate control algorithm, but uses
      the capability flags to configure the channel on the radio,
      since these were used in association to set the AP's transmit
      rate.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
      Cc: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
      Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarLuis R Rodriguez <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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