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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, 2023-03-14 at 17:47 +0000, Ryder Lee wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's another one of those cases ... :(

johannes




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