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Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] wifi: mac80211: start and finalize channel switch on link basis

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On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 09:17 +0000, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 5:00 PM
> > To: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Ilan Peer
> > <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx>; Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>; Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Arend van Spriel
> > <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] wifi: mac80211: start and finalize channel switch on link basis
> > 
> > You _could_ also actually just implement probe response "offload" in the
> > driver, then you get the template from hostapd/mac80211, and that should
> > come with the offsets to fill in. Might be easier, overall.
> 
> Agree. That will be easier. What I only concern is hostapd can still work well
> without probe request, which is dropped by driver implementing offload. 

That's what happens today, so yeah, that should work?

You need to not answer&drop certain P2P probe requests though. But since
we're talking about this in WiFi7 AP context, you could just make it
different depending on that, I think we get the templates all the time
in the kernel and just ignore them if not handled.

johannes





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