From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pooventhiran G <pooventhiran.g@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-next v2 09/16] wifi: mac80211: Define layouts for SMD BSS Transition context
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:12:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <073770dcebd5340126816bd89f9259c0c1dd990a.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc91329053c0cbedecf51bcccd4a0e74eba850e5.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Thu, 2026-10-01 at 22:09 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> I'd also love for you to think about hwsim supporting this - in that
> case mac80211 maintains a lot of this data. Having mac80211 fill in some
> data unconditionally though seems brittle - what if the driver just
> forgot the PN and then mac80211 says "sure the PN is 0" because
> something, so ideally drivers would somehow say "this should be filled
> in from mac80211 software state" or something.
Or maybe the answer here is to offer some kind of helpers to fill in
state before attaching it.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 2:40 [PATCH wireless-next v2 00/16] wifi: Add Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) AP support Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 01/16] wifi: nl80211: Define Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) device capability Pooventhiran G
2026-10-02 6:41 ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-05 16:01 ` Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 02/16] wifi: nl80211: Add kernel interfaces for Seamless Mobility Domain setup Pooventhiran G
2026-10-02 6:50 ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-05 16:04 ` Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 03/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Configure AP with SMD capabilities Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 04/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 05/16] wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: Indicate STA creation via SMD BSS Transition Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 06/16] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 07/16] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 08/16] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 09/16] wifi: mac80211: Define layouts for SMD BSS Transition context Pooventhiran G
2026-10-01 20:09 ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-01 20:12 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2026-10-07 11:35 ` Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 10/16] wifi: nl80211: Define attributes to pack " Pooventhiran G
2026-10-01 20:19 ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-07 11:42 ` Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 11/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame Pooventhiran G
2026-10-04 10:23 ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-05 16:16 ` Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 12/16] wifi: nl80211: Pack SMD dynamic context along with frame Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 13/16] wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: Add support for SMD context programming Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 14/16] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 15/16] wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: Add support for querying SMD context for target AP MLD Pooventhiran G
2026-09-24 2:40 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 16/16] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX Pooventhiran G
2026-10-04 10:49 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 00/16] wifi: Add Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) AP support Johannes Berg
2026-10-07 12:09 ` Pooventhiran G
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