On 10/28/23 1:55 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 04:36:00PM -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
MLO should be disabled in case EHT is disabled, and also add new
configurable to disable MLO regardless of EHT settings.
Agreed with the first part and that was what was already supposed to
happen with disable_eht=1, but if that is not the case with all drivers,
that should indeed be fixed.
As far as the second part is concerned, what is the use case for
disabling MLO without EHT? There is an expectation for EHT to mandate
use of MLO in practice.
For one thing, a currently available wifi-7 hardware/firmware crashes often
when you enable MLO with 2+ links (see my patch to fix MLD IE parsing).
And even in cases where it used a single MLO link and didn't crash, performance
was much worse than when MLO was disabled.
The MLO/MLD logic is too fragile at the moment, so it is good to be able to
disable it in case you just need a functional wifi on a wifi-7 radio.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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