From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Priyansha Tiwari <priyansha.tiwari@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, quic_drohan@quicinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-next v1 1/4] wifi: nl80211: rename PROBE_CLIENT to PROBE_PEER and add STA-side probing support
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:53:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acdce727bcc094ae13846bcf03bf0a6206186200.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260415094304.1731390-2-pritiwa@qti.qualcomm.com>
On Wed, 2026-04-15 at 15:13 +0530, Priyansha Tiwari wrote:
> From: Priyansha Tiwari <priyansha.tiwari@oss.qualcomm.com>
>
> Rename NL80211_CMD_PROBE_CLIENT to NL80211_CMD_PROBE_PEER to generalize
> peer probing, AP/GO continue to probe associated STAs (legacy PROBE_CLIENT
> behavior) while, when the driver advertises NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_PROBE_AP,
> a STA/P2P-client may probe its currently associated AP to quickly verify link
> responsiveness without waiting for traffic or long timeouts.
Why though? Link management etc. is totally up to the driver/mac80211...
Also I'm sure this isn't going to work for all devices, e.g. Intel
devices can't send NDPs from the host (this is probably wrong in the
iwlmld driver for AP side though.)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-15 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-15 9:43 [PATCH wireless-next v1 0/4] wifi: nl80211: introduce PROBE_PEER for AP and STA with MLO support Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:43 ` [PATCH wireless-next v1 1/4] wifi: nl80211: rename PROBE_CLIENT to PROBE_PEER and add STA-side probing support Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2026-04-17 13:28 ` Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:43 ` [PATCH wireless-next v1 2/4] wifi: cfg80211/nl80211: rename to probe_peer(), extend probe status, and update in-tree users Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:43 ` [PATCH wireless-next v1 3/4] wifi: mac80211: add per-link PROBE_PEER support Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:43 ` [PATCH wireless-next v1 4/4] wifi: mac80211_hwsim: report TX status link_id Priyansha Tiwari
2026-04-15 9:48 ` Johannes Berg
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