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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] wifi: mac80211: add LDPC related flags in ieee80211_bss_conf

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On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 11:08 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 01:49 +0800, Ryder Lee wrote:
> > This is utilized to pass LDPC configurations from user space
> > (i.e. hostapd) to driver.
> > 
> 
> I'm applying this, but could you do me a favour and check that we
> really
> don't need to reset this? What if we added a previous BSS with e.g.
> VHT
> and then reconfigure the interface to w/o VHT and then the settings
> might stick?
> 
> More generally, it might be worth checking if we can just memset the
> entire bss_conf to 0? We already do this for link conf today (always
> reallocate it) so it should be OK? Same actually goes for client mode
> so
> maybe we can generally clean that up?
> 

I agree, and myabe this is a long standing issue. I think we need a
fresh start for bss_conf. 

I've seen this case:
hostapd would pass fils_interval only if (param->fils_interval), so if
someone tries to disable it by "0" which doesn't work. Kernel should
ptotect such case.

Ryder




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