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Subject: Re: kern/176201: [net80211] [patch] 11n station includes unrelated ht
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On Friday, February 22, 2013 07:52:47 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hm, it's possible in my sleep deprived state that I'm on the right but
> wrong track here.
> 
> The OP problem is that we're not advertising the right capabilities
> when we associate, right?

Correct.

> Why aren't we just advertising the VAP ampdumax and ampdudensity no
> matter what the operating mode? Why are we capping those parameters to
> the learnt-from-AP parameters?

Because the AP would otherwise deny the association request. That's at least 
how I read the commit (r173865).

-- 
Bernhard