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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>
Cc: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	franky.lin@broadcom.com, hante.meuleman@broadcom.com,
	chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] brcmfmac: make firmware eap_restrict a module parameter
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:29:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rpkcvjo.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9683e5c3-5f68-5632-e1cf-c31e51379673@cypress.com> (Wright Feng's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:06:11 +0800")

Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com> writes:

> Arend Van Spriel 於 3/19/2020 4:28 PM 寫道:
>> On 3/19/2020 8:53 AM, Wright Feng wrote:
>>> When eap_restrict is enabled, firmware will toss non-802.1x frames from
>>> tx/rx data path if station not yet authorized.
>>> Internal firmware eap_restrict is disabled by default. This patch makes
>>> it possible to enable firmware eap_restrict by specifying
>>> eap_restrict=1 as module parameter.
>>
>> What is the reason for not having this toss behavior as default?
>> Don't see much reason for having the module parameter.
>
> The eap_restrict feature in most of firmwares are disabled as default,
> and refer to our experience, using eap_restrict increases roam time
> for associations in some cases.

What are these these cases exactly?

> So what we do in this patch is not changing the default firmware
> behavior but still give users a way to enable eap_resrtict feature.

You should have mentioned this (ie. answer the "Why?" part) in the
commit log in the first place.

But I don't like adding module parameters unless with really good
reasons. And in this case there's no proper documentation when and how a
user should use the module parameter so this is nowhere near a proper
justifiction.

-- 
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-22 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-19  7:53 [PATCH 0/3] Add AP isolate support and two modules parameters Wright Feng
2020-03-19  7:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] brcmfmac: support AP isolate Wright Feng
2020-03-19  8:48   ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-03-20  8:04     ` Wright Feng
2020-03-19  7:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] brcmfmac: make firmware eap_restrict a module parameter Wright Feng
2020-03-19  8:28   ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-03-20  8:06     ` Wright Feng
2020-03-22 14:29       ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2020-03-19  7:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] brcmfmac: make setting SDIO workqueue WQ_HIGHPRI " Wright Feng
2020-03-19  8:55   ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-03-20  8:08     ` Wright Feng
2020-03-20  8:18       ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-03-20  9:01         ` Wright Feng
2020-03-24 18:23       ` Tejun Heo
2020-03-25  4:29         ` Wright Feng
2020-03-25 14:08           ` Tejun Heo
2020-03-25 14:53             ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-03-25 15:06               ` Wright Feng
2020-03-25 15:12                 ` Tejun Heo
2020-03-27  9:14                   ` Wright Feng
2020-04-03 14:59                     ` Tejun Heo
2020-03-25 15:10               ` Tejun Heo
2020-03-22 14:32   ` Kalle Valo

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