Re: [PATCH 5.15 1/6] mac80211: mesh: clean up rx_bcn_presp API

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 01:04:10PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 06:56 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 09:11:45AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 08:15:56PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > > > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > commit a5b983c6073140b624f64e79fea6d33c3e4315a0 upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > We currently pass the entire elements to the rx_bcn_presp()
> > > > method, but only need mesh_config. Additionally, we use the
> > > > length of the elements to calculate back the entire frame's
> > > > length, but that's confusing - just pass the length of the
> > > > frame instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920154009.a18ed3d2da6c.I1824b773a0fbae4453e1433c184678ca14e8df45@changeid
> > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |  7 +++----
> > > >  net/mac80211/mesh.c        |  4 ++--
> > > >  net/mac80211/mesh_sync.c   | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
> > > >  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Many thanks for this series.  Will this also work in 5.4.y and 5.10.y?
> > > 
> > 
> > Not sure about 5.10, but that won't work as is on 5.4. We are considering some
> > other approach for 5.4, but not sure yet. But simply taking dozens of clean
> > cherry picks did not strike as a good option to me.

Taking lots of clean cherrypicks _is_ normally the best way, I have no
objection to that at all as it keeps things in sync properly.  Doing
out-of-tree changes is the hard way and we almost always get that wrong.

> I'm thinking of just disabling multi-BSSID, it's not really used anyway
> as far as I can tell.

That's fine with me too if it's an easy change and no one complains or
notices :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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