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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>, iwd@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] band: return -ENOTSUP when RSSI is too low for rate estimation
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:47:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873738bd-0761-4b0a-bbcb-cf76ea8f66e9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240415151130.40389-1-prestwoj@gmail.com>

Hi James,

On 4/15/24 10:11, James Prestwood wrote:
> This was overlooked in a prior patch and causes the rate estimation
> to return -ENETUNREACH if the RSSI is too low to support the
> various capabilities. This return was unhandled and was treated as
> if the IE was invalid which then printed a warning.
> 
> The low RSSI case should just be ignored, similar to if the IE was
> not provided at all. In this case return -ENOTSUP so the caller
> moves on to the next capability set.

Err, why?  Just handle the error code.

> 
> Note: this does result in most of the estimation functions only
>        returning 0 or -ENOTSUP as they do little to no validation
>        on the frame, but rather just test bits. Additional
>        validation could be added in the future which would be
>        handled by this patch.
> ---
>   src/band.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Hmm, this set is failing CI for some reason?

Regards,
-Denis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-15 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-15 15:11 [PATCH 1/3] band: return -ENOTSUP when RSSI is too low for rate estimation James Prestwood
2024-04-15 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] scan: replace -ENETUNREACH with -ENOTSUP for rate estimation return James Prestwood
2024-04-15 15:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] wiphy: include MAC of BSS with invalid HE capabilities James Prestwood
2024-04-15 18:47 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2024-04-15 19:01   ` [PATCH 1/3] band: return -ENOTSUP when RSSI is too low for rate estimation James Prestwood
2024-04-15 19:07     ` Denis Kenzior

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