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Re: [PATCH 1/3] wifi: cfg80211: add support for link id attribute in NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION

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On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 16:41 +0530, Aditya Kumar Singh wrote:

> Yeah :). Even I haven't seen kernel not removing the entries while the 
> interface was going down. Was just thinking out loud here. Tbh, even I 
> don't know the exact reason it was written in that way. Was guessing.

It's probably just old ... :)

> > Note this raises an interesting point in mac80211, in that there's one
> > link ('deflink', the link the STA used to assoc) that cannot be removed
> > from an MLD station even.
> > 
> 
> Good point :) I did not think about this. Let me think again how to 
> handle this case. Thanks.

You don't actually have to now though - you're _not_ removing just
links, you're removing the whole station with all links, as long as it
has a link with the relevant link ID.

johannes





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