Dear James,


Am 08.09.21 um 01:34 schrieb James Prestwood:

> On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 01:02 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Am 07.09.21 um 23:14 schrieb James Prestwood:
>>> This works around a hostapd bug (described more in the TODO
>>> comment)
>>
>> It’d be great, if you listed the hostapd version, you reproduced this
>> with, and, if you did, add a reference to the hostapd bug report.
> 
> Sure. I did send an email to the hostapd ML if that is considered a bug
> report.

Thank you for doing that. In my book it is. Please add the URL to the 
commit message.

https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2021-September/039842.html

>>> that deaths IWD if the initial commit is not acked. This behavior
>>> has been identified in consumer access points and likely won't ever
>>> be patched for older devices. Because of this IWD must work around
>>> the problem which can be eliminated by not sending out this commit
>>> message.
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance, but how likely is it, that non-hostapd setups
>> keep working?
> 
> Do non-hostapd setups even exist? :) But in reality no it shouldn't
> effect anything. I do need to amend this commit slightly, but v2 will
> have identical behavior as wpa_supplicant, i.e. ignore the commit
> message completely.

Great, it’d be great if you mentioned that.

Also, from the other thread *Re: Cannot connect to SAE protected AP with 
iwd 1.16 and beyond*, if the ell commit really introduced the 
regression, it’d be great if you mentioned that too.


Kind regards,

Paul