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Johannes Berg committed 4a817aa78f5
mac80211: allow VHT with peers not capable of 40MHz There are two (related) issues with this. One case, reported by Michal, is related to hostap: it unsets the 20/40 capability bit for stations that associate when it's in 20 MHz mode. The other case, reported by Eyal, is that some APs like Netgear R6300v2 and probably others based on the BCM4360 chipset can be configured for doing VHT at 20Mhz. In this case the beacon has a VHT IE but the HT cap indicates transmitter only support 20Mhz. In both of these cases, we currently avoid VHT and use only HT this means we can't use the highest rates (MCS8), so fixing this leads to throughput improvements. Reported-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Reported-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>