Re: [RFC v3 6/8] wifi: mac80211: extend ifcomb check functions for multi-radio

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>]

On 12.06.24 14:05, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 13:04 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Use the sum of the number of interfaces from each radio instead of the 
>> > > maximum.
>> > 
>> > Oh, then legacy user have misconception of the global interfaces
>> > advertised and try to fail for the allowed limits.
>> 
>> Sure, but that might be an issue either way until user space is updated 
>> and users start looking at the per-radio ifcomb data.
> 
> I'm kind of with Karthikeyan here - this could be understood as a
> regression, since you're now telling userspace something you can't
> actually do.

Well, we can actually do it, just with some extra restrictions - i.e. 
the interfaces we create need to be spread across radios to match the 
per-radio limits.

>> The global data is simply not enough to describe the details of the 
>> radio split.
> 
> Obviously, but that doesn't mean the global data as advertised in the
> existing attributes must be *wrong*. It could be a subset, and the
> superset data is only available to new implementations.
So you'd prefer something like picking one radio and advertising its 
limits instead?

- Felix