> Hostapd registers for acton frames and probe requests. In our case > probe responses are sent by firmware. However hostapd needs to look > at them anyway in certain usecases. Bug hostapd doesn't try to > respond to probe requests when option 'send_probe_response = 0' is > set in hostapd config. Yeah, but this shouldn't really have to be configured, that's awkward. > IIRC the idea was to use 'send_probe_response' for now and then to > implement the use of NL80211_RXMGMT_FLAG_ANSWERED flag in hostapd, at > least for probe requests for the start. But it definitely doesn't > make sense if you plan to get rid of this flag in the long run. No no! I'm not saying let's get rid of it if you need it - I was saying we could get rid of it since it doesn't appear to be used. I think this is fine for your case, in fact you should probably already set it and then go and teach hostapd about it. johannes
