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Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] nl80211: Add FILS discovery support

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On Thu, 2020-07-30 at 14:17 -0700, Aloka Dixit wrote:

> > OTOH, if it's with headers, how could it be optional? In fact, either
> > way, how is it optional?
> > 
> 
> Template has management frame headers as well. Will change the wording 
> accordingly.

OK.

> I made the template optional because FILS discovery may or may not be 
> offloaded to FW.

But how would anyone know? Try without it, and then try again if that
fails? Would it fail? I mean, you also said it was required at least for
6 GHz, so wouldn't userspace be better off always giving it - and then
we should probably make it mandatory so it doesn't fall into the trap?

However - and here that's my ignorance speaking - can it really be
offloaded? I mean, is everything in there completely determined by the
beacon already, and so you have no choice in how to build it? Or how
does that work?

> Yeah, I looked through existing examples for NLA_BINARY, those provide 
> only the higher bound for length.

Yeah, no way to do anything else right now. But you should have a lower
bound in the code, I think.

> But I can modify it to range once that is added.

Later maybe :)

johannes




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