From: vjakkam@codeaurora.org
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Indicate SA Query procedures offload for AP SME device
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:56:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a1f654e3406e99c816afbc762519fea@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <612e80125878bae6fccbb72701381832a8a6029c.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 2021-10-21 21:02, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 16:48 +0530, Veerendranath Jakkam wrote:
>> Add AP SME device feature flag to advertise that the SA Query
>> procedures
>> are handled in driver.
>>
>> If this flag is advertised SA Query request or response frames from
>> peers
>> are not reported to userspace. Thus userspace components shall skip SA
>> Query specific validations.
>>
>> Ex: When AP started with Operating Channel Validation(OCV) support and
>> channel switch occurs, hostapd starts SA Query timer for OCV enabled
>> STAs. Hostapd sends deauth to the STAs which didn't send SA Query
>> request before timeout, Hostapd can skip such validations when this
>> flag
>> advertised.
>
> So how's that going to work with older hostapd? It'll be offloaded, and
> then hostapd doesn't know, so it's still going to disconnect them?
>
> So should be that hostapd also opts in to this driver behaviour?
yes, we have to update hostapd also with new implementation based on the
feature flag.
>
> Also ... it _really_ would be good if there were upstream drivers with
> these things ...
I fully agree. But unfortunately none of the upstream drivers
implemented
OCV features within them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-22 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-14 11:18 [PATCH] nl80211: Indicate SA Query procedures offload for AP SME device Veerendranath Jakkam
2021-10-21 15:32 ` Johannes Berg
2021-10-22 13:26 ` vjakkam [this message]
2021-10-22 13:29 ` Johannes Berg
2021-10-25 8:27 ` vjakkam
2021-10-25 8:28 ` Johannes Berg
2021-11-22 6:11 ` vjakkam
2021-11-26 7:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] nl80211: Add support to set AP settings flags with single attribute Veerendranath Jakkam
2021-11-26 7:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] nl80211: Add support to offload SA Query procedures for AP SME device Veerendranath Jakkam
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