On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:02:38AM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:20:42PM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I guess this does not work if you add 2 vifs and then you remove the first one
> > > > > > (you will end up with a wrong configuration in MT_MAC_ADDR_DW{0,1}). I guess
> > > > > > the hw will not work well if MT_MAC_ADDR_DW{0,1} is not properly configured
> > > >
> > > > Maybe I am missing something, but let's assume you add the interface vif0 with address
> > > > 00:11:22:33:44:55 (MT_MAC_ADDR_DW{0,1} will be set to 00:11:22:33:44:55) and
> > > > then you add vif1 with address 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee. If at some point you remove
> > > > vif0 MT_MAC_ADDR_DW{0,1} will not be properly reconfigured. The problem will
> > > > be more complex if you have more interfaces
> >
> > Ok, so in remove_interface extra code can be added to implement that.
> >
> > > Moreover if you add 2 vif, vif0 with address 00:11:22:33:44:55 and vif1 with
> > > address 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee, have you double-checked you are able to get the same
> > > tpt on both interfaces? In the past IIRC there were issues if we use multibss
> > > with completely different mac addresses
> >
> > I haven't check that. But what I can tell multi vif STA does not work, if
> > we do not enable PROMISC on rx filter. But this is not diffrent from MMIO
> > version, which mark multi vif support.
>
> Since this is not strictly related to AP/IBSS support I guess we can just use
> mt76x02_add_interface for mt76x2u or modify mt76x2u_add_interface in order to
> use ap_cli registers for sta mode and drop this patch. I think we can address it
> later after more testing
I do not see the reason of dropping the patch.
Thanks
Stanislaw
