mac80211/cfg80211: HT capabilities for NEW_STA

Allow userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set HT capabilities for associated
STAs. This is based on a patch from Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> (only
the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY for NEW_STA part is included here).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 2b19532f4c8a..928813ce08e2 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -674,6 +674,11 @@ static void sta_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                 sta->supp_rates[local->oper_channel->band] = rates;
         }
 
+        if (params->ht_capa) {
+                ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_ht_info(params->ht_capa,
+                                               &sta->ht_info);
+        }
+
         if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif) && params->plink_action) {
                 switch (params->plink_action) {
                 case PLINK_ACTION_OPEN: