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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	Alexey Berezhok <a@bayrepo.ru>,
	Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,  lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: do not cast hidden SSID attribute value to boolean
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:15:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e3b72023f30d8765154805816e6eb1f4e73593c.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bc49c2a-1f62-4801-90c3-048b27f6475c@broadcom.com>

On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 15:06 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 
> settings->hidden_ssid has already been used above in following call:
> 
> 		err = brcmf_fil_iovar_int_set(ifp, "closednet",
> 					      settings->hidden_ssid);
> 
> So we pass the value as is to firmware using the same assumption, ie. 
> NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_NOT_IN_USE. Is this not ABI thus very unlikely to 
> change?

The ABI won't change, that'd break all the users of nl80211 that use
this :-)

> @Johannes:
> Actually not quite understanding the reason for having this setting in 
> nl80211. hidden_ssid means SSID element length is zero, right?
> 

Well, there at least _were_ APs doing the correct SSID length but
setting all octets to zero ... Not sure that's still a thing though.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-08 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-08  8:51 [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: do not cast hidden SSID attribute value to boolean Alexey Berezhok
2024-02-08 14:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2024-02-08 14:15   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2024-02-08 15:56     ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-02-12 15:38 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-12 16:00   ` Arend van Spriel
2024-02-12 16:03     ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-12 16:43       ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-02-13 13:34         ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-13 14:01           ` Arend van Spriel
2024-02-13 15:46             ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-13 17:40               ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-02-14 10:28     ` Alexey Berezhok
2024-02-14 11:44       ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-02-19 18:25 ` andy.shevchenko

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