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Re: [PATCH 05/28] wifi: cfg80211: support reporting failed links

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On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 16:39 +0530, Veerendranath Jakkam wrote:
> On 10/6/2022 4:21 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 16:19 +0530, Veerendranath Jakkam wrote:
> > > I think similar enhancement needed for cfg80211_roamed/NL80211_CMD_ROAM
> > > also to know accepted and rejected links info during roaming.
> > > 
> > Not sure, in that case we might care only about the successful links
> > since wpa_s didn't request the others, so maybe it doesn't matter?
> 
> Drivers can offload EAPOL 4WHS to wpa_supplicant during roaming with 
> non-FT AKMs. In that case supplicant needs to know rejected links info 
> to validate AP's MLO Link KDEs in 3/4 frame.
> 
> Ex: Driver handles only re-association request and response frames while 
> doing roaming with non-FT AKM then offload 4WHS to wpa_supplicant
> 

Right, but is there a fundamental difference between

 "hey I roamed to this AP MLD with links 1, 2 and 5"
 (with the right BSSIDs for the links etc.)

and

 "hey I roamed to this AP MLD and I tried links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 but only
1, 2 and 5 were established"

?

johannes




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