On 2020-07-16 02:35, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
On 7/16/2020 1:05 AM, Aloka Dixit wrote:
Unsolicited broadcast probe response tranmission is used for in-band
discovery in 6GHz band (IEEE P802.11ax/D6.0 26.17.2.3.2, AP behavior
for
fast passive scanning).
v3: Rebased. Removed check for 6Ghz, drivers should add that check.
I have not seen any comments in v2 so could you motivate this removal.
It is a sanity check that is always needed so doing it in the nl80211
api seems the proper place.
Regards,
Arend
Hi Arend,
I found that if any application sends
NL80211_ATTR_UNSOL_BCAST_PROBE_RESP with
NL80211_UNSOL_BCAST_PROBE_RESP_INT=0 (which means disable) for 2.4/5GHz,
the check here resulted in AP not being brought up.
Technically disabling this feature for 2.4/5GHz is not required as it is
disabled by default but it should not cause issues if done so
explicitly. Hence I removed the check here so that drivers can decide to
use/ignore this attribute.
