Hi Jouni, Rather than refusing to start the AP, my hostapd patch would throw an error message indicating that HE configuration is not supported and would instead start the AP in HT/VHT configuration. This would result in a seamless end user experience. Does this approach seem to be fair ? Thanks, Deepti -----Original Message----- From: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 00:09 To: Deepti Panchal <deepti.panchal@xxxxxxx> Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [EXT] [RESEND PATCH] Issue: Non-HE capable interface advertising HE Caution: EXT Email On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:33:38PM +0000, Deepti Panchal wrote: > My patch will override the user config in case the hardware does not support HE configuration. > An error message will also be shown in the debug logs indicating the hardware is not HE supported. > > Can you please elaborate on what you mean by: > "I would have expected the configuration to be rejected instead of being silently ignored" I would expect hostapd to refuse to start AP operation with invalid configuration instead of modifying the configuration in this manner to ignore that the configuration requested HE to be enabled. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
