Re: [PATCH wireless-next v2 1/3] wifi: cfg80211: Add support for S1G Response Indication Configuration

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2026-01-09 at 09:30 +0530, Ria Thomas wrote:
> The WFA HaLow test plan includes explicit test cases that require
> configuring the Response Indication on both the AP and the STA.
> In these scenarios, the Response Indication is not negotiated as
> part of association, but is instead set dynamically after the
> association has been established.

Fair.

> As a result, the Response Indication needs to be configurable at
> runtime from userspace and applied to the driver/firmware
> independently of association or AP setup. This requirement
> motivated the introduction of a userspace‑configurable selector
> that updates the Response Indication state on an already active
> interface.

Actually, reading the spec, are you sure it's even on an *interface*
scope? A lot of this seems to me like it should be per intended
receiver, and you need to know its capabilities for generating the
intended response?

If it were per-STA then I think that'd have a much more natural lifetime
(since it cannot exceed that of the STA) which seems far better to me.

But you're going to have to help me understand it :)

johannes