Adrian Chadd 51172f62a7 [net80211] Initial VHT node upgrade/downgrade support and initial IE parsing.
This is the bulk of the magic to start enabling VHT channel negotiation.
It is absolutely, positively not yet even a complete VHT wave-1 implementation.

* parse IEs in scan, assoc req/resp, probe req/resp;
* break apart the channel upgrade from the HT IE parsing - do it after the
  VHT IEs are parsed;
* (dirty! sigh) add channel width decision making in ieee80211_ht.c htinfo_update_chw().
  This is the main bit where negotiated channel promotion through IEs occur.
* Shoehorn in VHT node init ,teardown, rate control, etc calls like the HT
  versions;
* Do VHT channel adjustment where appropriate

Tested:

* monitor mode, ath10k port
* STA mode, ath10k port - VHT20, VHT40, VHT80 modes

TODO:

* IBSS;
* hostap;
* (ignore mesh, wds for now);
* finish 11n state engine - channel width change, opmode notifications, SMPS, etc;
* VHT basic rate negotiation and acceptance criteria when scanning, associating, etc;
* VHT control/management frame handling (group managment and operating mode being
  the two big ones);
* Verify TX/RX VHT rate negotiation is actually working correctly.

Whilst here, add some comments about seqno allocation and locking.  To achieve
the full VHT rates I need to push seqno allocation into the drivers and
finally remove the IEEE80211_TX_LOCK() I added years ago to fix issues. :/
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