RE: [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: Enable AP mode for RTL8188EU

[Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>]

hi@shreyan.sh <hi@shreyan.sh> wrote:
> From 0a3cdd4c6cc416804e49c935516a22e854a87483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Shreyansh Khajanchi <hi@shreyan.sh>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:34:44 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: Enable AP mode for RTL8188EU
> 
> The RTL8188EU shares the AP mode implementation in core.c with the
> other chips supported by this driver, so advertising
> NL80211_IFTYPE_AP is enough to make it usable as an access point.
> 
> Set max_macid_num to 32 as well, so that max_ap_assoc_sta is
> initialised. The vendor driver defines NUM_STA as 32, and starts
> station MAC IDs at 2 because 0 and 1 are reserved for
> broadcast/multicast. This matches RTL8192CU, which also sets
> max_macid_num to 32.

Do you have a sniffer to have air capture to check beacon?

If so, please check TIM for unicast packets if station goes
sleepy, and TIM for broadcast/multicast packets (for example,
send a broadcast ARP by ping a non-existing IP).

> 
> Tested with an RTL8188EUS (0bda:8179) on a Raspberry Pi Zero running
> 6.12 (armv6): hostapd serves a 2.4 GHz WPA2 network, clients associate
> and pass traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Khajanchi <hi@shreyan.sh>

I give my reviewed-by, but still want test results of TIM.

Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>