Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath10k: support MAC address randomization in scan

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

> > > Is there a problem with the "supported commands" list?
> 
> My understanding is that in general the "supported commands" list is not 
> well-maintained. Not every nl80211 command is represented in the list so 
> user-space can not know whether it is missing or not supported.
> For this particular START_SCHED_SCAN command it can be used still and 
> indeed probably for a long time. I just wanted to point out that it is 
> not recommended for new user-space functionality.

We used to do it more, but most features are more complex than "command
is supported" or are simpler than "these 5 commands are supported" (just
a single bit to indicate the whole feature is enough), so we mostly use
extended feature flags now.

> > It sometimes feels like wpa_supplicant gets treated as a static entity
> > that can never be changed.  In fact, send a patch to Jouni implementing
> > the best practice, with a fallback to preserve compat for old kernels,
> > and I'm sure he'd entertain it.  Just because the supplicant does
> > something a certain way, doesn't mean it's the *best* way, but it too
> > evolves.

You also need to consider old supplicant on new kernels though? But I
didn't really follow this part of the discussion, so you're probably
taking that into account.

johannes