Re: [PATCH 05/13] wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: add peer measurement abort command

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

On 30-Jan-26 9:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-01-30 at 21:30 +0530, Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy wrote:
>> Add support for aborting ongoing peer measurement sessions
>> through a new NL80211_CMD_PEER_MEASUREMENT_ABORT command.
>> This allows userspace to cancel continuous ranging or other
>> long-running measurement sessions before completion.
>>
>> The abort operation is identified by the measurement cookie.
>> When a matching request is found, it is marked for cleanup
>> and the existing free work is scheduled to handle the
>> abortion and notify the driver.
> Originally, the idea was that we don't need this, since it's easy to
> just close the socket. Are there any resource constraints in socket
> handling in userspace that make this necessary? I'm not necessarily
> totally opposed to this, but you also haven't explained why it's
> necessary at all.
>
> johannes

We’ll be dropping this. As you pointed out, PMSR abort can be handled by closing the socket. Thanks.