On 03.02.20 15:31, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 14:50 +0100, Markus Theil wrote: >> In the last few weeks I used a wpa_supplicant with my patches for tx and >> rx over nl80211 control port and sometimes observed longer time to >> successful connection than without these patches. I think that this is a >> result of wpa_supplicant using SOCK_WIFI_STATUS when transmitting EAPOL >> frames over AF_PACKET sockets and using a fast retransmit, if the Wi-Fi >> ack is not observed timely. So the question here is, should we add an >> analog feature for tx over nl80211 control port? I think of a >> control_port_tx_status message with a cookie delivered to user-space. > Somehow I thought we treated this like the mgmt tx and already had a > notification over nl80211 going back, but looks like not? > > Then yeah, we should definitely add that. I'll take a second look on it and send a patch if necessary, but as far as I have seen, no such mechanism exists. Markus > johannes >
