Re: [PATCH wireless-next v3 01/15] wifi: cfg80211: Allow RSTA role without LMR request

[Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy <peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 13-Mar-26 2:33 AM, Stern, Avraham wrote:
>
> Hi Peddolla
>
>> From: Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy <peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2026 6:07 PM
>> To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
>> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; kavita.kavita@oss.qualcomm.com
>> Subject: [PATCH wireless-next v3 01/15] wifi: cfg80211: Allow RSTA 
>> role without LMR request
>> Currently when enabling RSTA role in PMSR FTM requests,
>> pmsr_parse_ftm() mandates LMR feedback to be requested. This
> I2R LMR is mandatory when the RSTA is not continuously available on-channel:
> I2R LMR is required for ISTA to request AW changes (NNW bit) and to terminate the session.
>
Yes, I agree with you, in the next version we added additonal checks for NTB and TB.
So it should not reject valid EDCA based ranging request.

>> prevents valid use cases where devices need to operate as RSTA without 
>> waking the host for measurement reports.
> Devices can decide not to wake the host although I2R LMR was used over the air.
> But with current API, cfg80211_pmsr_report() is expected to be called in response.
> So maybe need a different flag to indicate no response?
>
> Avi

This flag is present in later patches.

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