On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 18:47 +0800, Wen Gong wrote: > > > And then two more questions: > > > > 1) Could this information change? Should we track it in beacons? > > > > The information is from AP side, it should be not changed untill the AP > restart. > If someone want to change configure of AP, the AP should restart and > then take effect by my understand. > Is it have some case for this information change? No, I guess that's fine then, I just didn't know. > > 2) Should we at least check it again from the protected beacon or such > > after association, so we don't blindly trust the probe response or > > beacon (received during scan, not validated) at least when BIGTK is in > > use? > > May we add support for BIGTK in future with another patch? We already have BIGTK support in mac80211, so if we don't do that now we're almost certainly not going to do it, so I'd really prefer if you did it here, or if a separate patch still did it now. > The info(pwr_reduction and tx_pwr_env) is used by lower driver such as > ath11k. Sure. > If the info changed after association, then how to notify lower driver? > Do it like below in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon()? > And use BSS_CHANGED_TXPOWER or a new enum in ieee80211_bss_change? Yeah, dunno. Are the drivers assuming now it's set once you get to associated state? johannes
