Re: [PATCH 1/3] wifi: mt76: mt7915: remove VHT160 capability on MT7915

From: Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2023 - 09:21:26 EST


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On 22.09.23 13:22, Linux regression tracking #adding (Thorsten Leemhuis)
wrote:
>
> On 21.09.23 07:02, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
>> On středa 26. července 2023 11:17:02 CEST Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>> The IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_EXT_NSS_BW value already indicates support for half-NSS
>>> 160 MHz support, so it is wrong to also advertise full 160 MHz support.
> [...]
>> and this broke my mt7915-based AP.
>>
>> However, if I remove `[VT160]` capability from the hostapd config, things go back to normal. It does seem that 160 MHz still works even.
>>
>> Is this expected?
>
> Thanks for the report.

Removing this from the regression tracking after mentioning the intent
to do so due to the tricky striation in my last report to Linus.

#regzbot inconclusive: tricky situation, no simple way out afaics
#regzbot ignore-activity

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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