Re: [PATCH] ath10k: add dynamic vlan support

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 12:12 +0530, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote:
> > Do you know why it actually broke it? I mean, we should've turned off
> > the strict requirement for sw crypto control only for the GTK, and that
> > shouldn't matter so much?
> 
> With the change db3bdcb9c3ff, AP/VLAN support is advertised by the 
> driver conditionally; the primary reason for doing this is to support 
> VLAN operations on sw crypto controlled devices.

Right, or, well *not* supporting it.

> AP also creates AP/VLAN devices for supporting 4-addr clients and since 
> the driver now advertises AP/VLAN support conditionally, the 4-addr 
> operation which has no relation to the VLANs(Per VLAN GTKs) was broken 
> on some ath10k devices.

Right. Like I said, splitting those two capabilities somehow would be
best.

> > > + * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_SW_ENCRYPT: Device is capable of transmitting
> > > + *     frames encrypted in software, only valid when SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL
> > > + *     is enabled. Based on this flag, mac80211 can allow/disallow VLAN
> > > + *     operations in the BSS.
> > 
> > Based on the name and initial description, this sounds equivalent to
> > just turning off SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL. I think that's not the intent, but
> > would need some renaming.
> 
> I can rename it to something which is very specific to VLAN support on 
> sw crypto controlled devices if that is okay.

I don't think that makes sense. If we split the capability of AP_VLAN
and AP_VLAN_FOR_4ADDR at the "root", then we don't need to play with all
these things. Yes, this is slightly awkward for userspace, and perhaps
with the interface combination checks, but I'd like you to look at that.

johannes