Re: [PATCH] easymesh: add a config option to enable EasyMesh backhaul STA

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reviewed-by: Marianna Carrera <mcarrera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> From: Davina Lu <ylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds a configuration option to wpa_supplicant to toggle a
> behavior compliant with the requirements of Wi-Fi Alliance Multi-AP
> Specification v1.0 (WFA EasyMesh). These specs can be found at
> https://www.wi-fi.org/file/multi-ap-specification-v10.
> They mandate that a “backhaul STA" (bSTA) includes a Multi-AP IE (Vendor
> Specific, WFA OUI, OUI Type 0x1B) with bit 7 of the subelement value set
> to 1,
> into (re)Association Requests, as well as a Multi-AP Extension
> Subelement with bit 7 of the subelement value set to 1, into WSC M1
> message.
>
> Therefore we introduce a new configuration options
> (easymesh_backhaul_sta) that toggles this behavior.
>
> Configuring these options will be done by a “MultiAP Agent”, an
> open-source implementation of such agent is work in progress at
> https://github.com/prplfoundation/prplMesh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davina Lu <ylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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