[PATCH 10/27] wifi: mac80211: isolate driver from inactive links
Wen Gong
quic_wgong at quicinc.com
Thu Sep 8 08:51:13 PDT 2022
On 9/8/2022 11:36 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 23:23 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
>> Now I found it only active the primay link(the link for
>> authentication/assoc request) in my station MLO test,
> Yes, that's intentional. It gives the driver choice about which links to
> activate; first of all because we don't have interface/link combinations
> stuff yet (waiting for your side on that), and secondly because we might
> very well (want to) negotiate more links than we can concurrently have
> active, e.g. a NIC that can have two active might still want to
> negotiate four and switch dynamically.
>
>> change_vif_links of struct ieee80211_ops *ops of driver will only be
>> called one time for the primary link.
> Correct.
>
>> it means only one link for MLO.
> Right.
>
>> I plan to revert this patch in my local test now.
>>
>> Will you implement muti-links later?
> Yes. I have patches pending to add API that the driver can call to pick
> the active links (as a bitmap).
>
> I'll send it out when I can, likely tomorrow.
>
> johannes
Thanks.
Another thing is what is the local MLD addr and local primary link(send
authentication/assoc requset) addr relation?
I think they are same address for station, right?
And the others local link address is random generated by eth_random_addr
in ieee80211_mgd_assoc() , right?
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