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Allow HE MCS rate selection for Beacon frames

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Allow HE MCS rate to be used for beacon transmission when the driver
advertises the support. The rate is specified with a new beacon_rate
option "he:<HE MCS>" in hostapd configuration.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
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Rajkumar Manoharan 2020-10-03 02:31:15 -07:00 • committed by Jouni Malinen
parent 7f2f262e6d
commit 9f9d3d3625
6 changed files with 45 additions and 7 deletions
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hostapd/config_file.c
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@ -3263,6 +3263,16 @@ static int hostapd_config_fill(struct hostapd_config *conf,
}
conf->rate_type = BEACON_RATE_VHT;
conf->beacon_rate = val;
} else if (os_strncmp(pos, "he:", 3) == 0) {
val = atoi(pos + 3);
if (val < 0 || val > 11) {
wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR,
"Line %d: invalid beacon_rate HE-MCS %d",
line, val);
return 1;
}
conf->rate_type = BEACON_RATE_HE;
conf->beacon_rate = val;
} else {
val = atoi(pos);
if (val < 10 || val > 10000) {

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hostapd/hostapd.conf
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@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ fragm_threshold=-1
# beacon_rate=ht:<HT MCS>
# VHT:
# beacon_rate=vht:<VHT MCS>
# HE:
# beacon_rate=he:<HE MCS>
#
# For example, beacon_rate=10 for 1 Mbps or beacon_rate=60 for 6 Mbps (OFDM).
#beacon_rate=10